Sweet Potato Fries for the win!

Lunch was a Jimmy John’s Beach Club (#12) and a pickle. Looked something like this:

Of course, I had it without mayo (and sprouts, although I should really start eating those!). ‘Twas delicious and only 576 calories (even less if you skip the cheese but I decided not to today).

Had about 4 unpictured mini Reese’s Cups at the office. Must avoid candy dish, especially since each one of these is 40 calories!!!

For dinner, Matt and I had our old favorite: turkey burgers and sweet potato fries.

These are almost always delicious. Occasionally the burgers can get really dried out but we combatted that today by adding some ketchup and soy sauce to the meat before cooking it (sounds odd but try it!).

And you can never go wrong with sweet potato fries. Never. Trust me. The key to sweet potato fries in my opinion is to cook them TOO long to make them a bit crispy. Putting them right under the broiler at the end for a few minutes helps. I cooked these in olive oil cooking spray by the way and don’t notice a difference at all from back in the days when I doused them in olive oil.

This meal had approximately 500 calories (didn’t measure the sweet potatoes or the ketchup).

Also had a weight watchers ice cream bar for desert.

Overall, I ate 1716 calories today. Burned approximately 600. According to daily burn, I could have used some fruit today. I didn’t have any! Oops!!

I know I said I was going to be doing all these restrictive things for my 60 day challenge – calorie counting, specific foods, etc. I need to be more realistic so for this first week I’m going to focus on calorie counting/food diarying – with hopes that I stay in my range but not requiring that. I’m going to slowly start doing the things on the list that are food related (I am doing quite well on the workout front and have been since Christmas so I’m just going to keep on keeping on there), and not try to be perfect overnight.