Sometimes it's nice to know

I have been glued to my book at night, and have found that reading at night is such a great way to fall asleep. I used to do it all the time but life has gotten in the way of that! I was actually reading about the importance of sleep and figured I should probably stop reading and go to sleep. I got a full 8 hours of sleep last night and am focusing on being better about making sure I get enough sleep. I figure getting more sleep is better than buying more makeup to try and cover the dark circles under my eyes, cheaper too!

The idea behind the Primal Blueprint is not to count calories and obsess over how much of this or that you’re eating. Rather it’s to focus on eating the right stuff and listening to your body. However, if you are trying to lose body fat, like me, then sometimes it’s nice to know how much you are eating vs. burning so you can get a better idea of where you might need to make adjustments. So for today, I am tracking everything in FitDay to both get an idea of how I’m doing as well as understand where I need to make adjustments. I figured I would share them with you, just with caution that I am still learning so can’t say this is a great balanced day! This is more as a learning experience for me and hopefully will help me in the coming days put together better meal ideas to ensure I’m getting enough protein, carbs and fat in order to meet my goal of losing body fat! **Note: I will update this blog tomorrow morning after I have dinner, as I’m not sure what that will be yet**

**Second note – I will be posting a follow up regarding calculating my calorie range as well as average weekly amounts of protein, carbs and fat I should be consuming, which will help highlight areas of improvement regarding my diet. I am starting by targeting about 84 grams of protein and about 80 grams of carbs, but this may get adjusted once I learn more**

I almost forgot, I FINALLY bought a food scale! How else could I possibly figure out how much I was eating of everything without it!!??

Breakfast

• Coffee with 2 tbsp half/half, two packets of splenda (not Paleo but one step at a time!)

• Three pieces of natural bacon

• 2 eggs over-easy

Snack

• Trader Joe’s Trail Mix packet

Lunch

• Salad with shredded chicken and homemade dressing

Pre-Workout Snack

• Muscle Milk Light

• Apple

Dinner

• Not sure yet

What’s crazy to look at is that with all that food, I’m only at 1,493 calories. Granted I need to figure dinner in to the mix, but not bad!  Next posts will start to outline some of the guidelines around determining how much protein, carbs and fat I need and how I was able to figure that out.  I do know that my calorie range should be between 2000-2300, next post will show how I calculated that.