I think I'm getting the hang of the food tracking thing.
The biggest struggle has been in getting my norms established. What I mean by that is, quantifying the things I eat regularly was a bit of a pain.
In a way, I can be thankful for a couple of things. Relative to this effort, the diabetes diagnosis really narrowed the scope of foods I eat. Secondly, I'm a creature of habit... like, I could never be a true "foodie." Both are helpful here, because I have zero problem eating the same thing every morning for breakfast. This casserole is high in protein and high in fat and very low in carbs (something I picked up on when I did the Atkins diet a few years ago, that also plays very well in Diabetesland, it turns out). So if I trust the app, I can offer the infoporn that says each of its 14 servings has 13.6g of protein and 1.7g carbohydrate for a total of 204 calories.
I'm on a 2,000 calories-per-day diet. And for the past few days, I've been coming in enough under my daily limit that the app is now telling me things like "if you maintain your current rate, you'll weigh 245 lbs in 5 weeks!"
Well, I don't know about all that, but I've been doing well finishing the past few days under my limit — either as a function of diet or combination of diet and exercise.
It's feeding into my general goal orientation. I almost stepped on the scale this morning just out of curiosity.
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