Shepherd's belated bonus point spam thread.

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At this point, I am lucky if I even lose five pounds before the trip, let alone ten.

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I need to tell myself how much better it will be to savor the cuisine of France over there than here.

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And how it is not worth it to keep feeling miserable and totally zapped of energy.

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I need to start logging in my food intake, to prevent any "food amnesia."

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Ugh. I feel sick to my stomach. I have been feeling like this all week.

[Telleriab2]

It's official: more water and veggies for me.

Fewer refined carbs and high-fat dairy products.

[T-Shirt Ninja]

:tsn: wuz here.

[Telleriab2]

For example: everytime I make a café con leche, I use around a cup of whole milk and I add 3 packets of sugar to it (Sugar in the Raw).

That is done twice a day. Maybe three if I have to stay up late doing a paper.

One cup of whole milk contains 150 calories with 70 more calories from fat. On top of that, it also has 11 grams of sugar.

One gram of sugar has 4 more calories.

4 x 11 = 44.

Just the milk alone has a total of 264 calories.

Coffee has no calories, but it does have a strong taste that requires a sweetener.

Here comes the sugar!

[Telleriab2]

One packet of Sugar in the Raw (exactly one tsp.) has 20 calories and, strangely enough, 5 grams of sugar.

This means that one packet of sugar packs another 40 calories.

I mentioned that I was using three packets of sugar.

3 x 40 = 120.

My total so far for one cup of café con leche is 384 calories.

[Telleriab2]

And I drink two cups a day on a regular basis. Maybe three.

[Number Six]

Sugar makes me sick. I can't eat more than a small amount at a time, or it will wreck my whole day.

[Telleriab2]

Sugar makes me sick. I can't eat more than a small amount at a time, or it will wreck my whole day.

And sugar makes me sick as well. I have to restrain myself from eating it or else it will wreck my whole body.

[Telleriab2]

Anyway, one cup of café con leche the way I drink it now is already iffy. Two or three cups is really pushing.

I mean, I am not even including the other foods I ingest.

[Telleriab2]

Substitution: 384 calories to zero by switching to water with just one bag of boiled green tea (without sugar).

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I am also aware that not all calories are created equally. Hence why fruits and veggies are so much better than dairy and meats.