you pick something up and do the math then put it down saying im not gonna waste my calories on that .......... then go find something healthy, it happen to me yesterday and thats the moment it hit me im back im gonna make it happen this time


Michelle

Good for you!!

Thanks anyone else have the light bulb come on when you KNEW this was the time ?

Lol I do that all the time, when it hit me most was camping....my mother in law wanted me to count her calories also (and I had no computer just my notebook to record in and my mental database) so she asked and I told her based of package and memory how much something had in it (approximatley). Then suddenly my SIL asked about something, then BIL then other SIL next thing I know I had told them the calorie count of their drinks, desserts, dinner ect.

It hit me then that out camping if I could remeber or figure out that food I could do it anytime anywhere I needed to. After I got back I figured out I had mostly done some underestimating each day and was off by about 100 calories per day, not bad though! Also it convinced said MIL to start doing the calories counting herself!

You "KNOW" you're a true Calorie counter when.........

You have a conversation with your sister that goes something like this:

me digging thru the trash

sis: what are you looking for?

me: this (holds up candy wrapper)

sis: why?

me: so I can log the calories, fat, etc. into my FitDay!

There's measuring cups and spoons on the dinner table.
My food scale almost never gets put away.
I found a little bowl at a yard sale. It holds exactly 1/2 cup. I bought eight!

Good one, Susan! I can relate, because I went to the grocery store a couple months ago and bought several SETS of both measuring cups and spoons. Keep many of them in the container (cereal, chopped walnuts, soluble fiber, Splenda, etc.) so I don't even have to think about which spoon or cup I need to use.

LOL SOOOOO TRUE loved it

You know you're a calorie counter when you go to the store for your weekly shopping trip, come home and before you put away the food, you carefully measure and weigh out portions of everything and put each portion in it's own ziplock bag or leftover container and label it for your breakfasts, snacks and lunches for the following week.

I tend to do that too--probably because I always eat the same things, but for basic foods such as chicken, vegetables or rice/pasta, I know the caloric intake by heart now. (I just avoid boasting about it in front of my colleagues at work, otherwise I get an endless streak of "don't be obsessed". Which is very weird, since THEY do obsess about dieting more than I. )

Sometimes I pick up items at the store and take a look at the label and I throw it down like it was on fire!!! DH and I laugh and say "nope, nope, and nope!"
-Jan

Perfect example, this really just happened to me about an hour or so ago:

I was at the beach and I had a terrible taste in my mouth and said so to my friend. My lips always burn at the beach, so to avoid it I put sunscreen over them, my friend says to me - "It's probably the sunscreen." I said, "Yup, that's what it must be. I wonder how many calories there are in sunscreen?"

I'm not normal.

The other day I was really wanting to be bad, even gave myself permission to get chips or something. Went to the store with dh and looked at almost EVERY chip bag! They had so many un natural ingredients in most of them I kept putting the bags back down. I picked up a bag of "baked chips" it had trans fat!!!

I picked up a bag of ruffles, potatos, salt, oil, simple enough. But then i told myself, but how many would you need to have til you were happy? Ummm...way more than a "serving" or two! And what would I need to have on them? Sour cream dressing! ugghhhhh....

I settled for some low salt cashews and grabbed some tortilla chips. I had some of the tortilla chips and the next day the ants came and got the rest. Pesky ants!

you know your a calorie counter when
1. you request a nutritional chart at restaurants
2. you print all the ones off the internet to keep in your car "incase"
3. you check the cal count in vitamin c tablets :S fyi there isn't any lol
4. you refuse a bite of your hubbys meal because your unsure how many ccalories that one bite will cost you
5. You only drink water because everything else seems like a waste of cals
6. you start counting your husbands calories just to see how much he actually consumes in a day ( hubbys meal the other day was 2200 cals FOR ONE MEAL and he is only 150lbs!)
7. you refuse dinner mints unsure of the calories :P