Week 5 Day 2 About recording your calories

I guess I probably should have talked about this earlier. The Fast Diet book has a table of how many calories you get per quantity of food for the most common foods... but really, who carries the book with them everywhere? One thing I learned while reading the book though was to weight your food after you cook it for an accurate calories count (something I was doing wrong for years!).

I have used quite a few calories tracker websites over the years including Calorie Count and Calorie King. Now in our digital era, I mostly use apps to be able to count my calories on the go, and I found "MyFitnessPal" works quite well for me. Some of my friends use "Lose It!" and quite like it. All of these are free so do check them all out and find the one that appeals the most to you. Both apps have exhaustive American food content. For the Canadians out there reading this, I think the database in MyFitnessPal contains more of our canadian products. Happy calorie counting!


Week 5 Day 2 menu


Breakfast: approximately 118 calories
- 32g of pork jerky
- 1 korean rice cracker


Lunch: approximately 215 calories
- 2 cups of baby spinach
- 1 tsp olive oil balsamic vinaigrette
- 1 sliced date
- 50g grape tomatoes
- 2 eggs, sliced


Dinner: approximately 170 calories
- homemade crab frittata (mix 1 can of crab meat, 1 egg, 1 tsp of chives and salt to taste, and place in the oven at 400F for 10-15mn for an easy quick meal on a busy work night!)


Total: 503 calories