Did You Forget These Calories?

Are you keeping a record – virtual, written, or in your noggin – of how may calories you’re eating?

Even if you’re not (and some people find it very hard to do – actually loathe doing it) you probably take note of what you eat each day – at least most of what you eat.  But, all of us have things that we eat, and consequently calories we take in, that easily slip being added to our mental or written calorie ledger sheet. The reasons for the oversight vary but either:

• we truly forget
• we find keeping track of them to be an onerous task
• we don’t want to address the fact that we ate what we did.

Calories That Are Way Too Easy to Forget

There are some kinds of calories that are particularly easy to forget.  Here’s some ideas – perhaps you’d like to take the opportunity to think about the mindless, sneaky calories in your life.

It’s easy to forget to include the calories in:

• the candy bar you buy at the gas station and eat it in the car
• the 3 tootsie rolls you snagged from the receptionist’s desk
• the couple of samples of cheesecake at Costco
• the crusts of the grilled cheese sandwich or the ends of the pizza that you finished from your child’s plate
• the cookie batter you tasted and the dough you licked from the bowl and beaters
• the leftovers you polished off because there was too small an amount to save
• the  extra hors d’oeuvre you mindlessly popped into your mouth
• the ice cream you licked from your child’s ice cream cone to prevent it from falling on the street
• the peanuts and goldfish you nibbled on at the bar
• the bread you practically inhaled from the breadbasket
• the glass of juice from the fridge in the snack room
• the extra coffee and cream in your tea and coffee
• the extra wine in your glass that is half again the size of a “regular” portion
• those “I’ll just have half a cookie” moments

How many more can you add?

This article is part of the 30 day series of blog posts called: 30 Easy Tips for Looser Pants and Excellent Energy.