Subway....it's not you, it's me

Ok...so as I'm sippin my sweet tea vodka with crystal lite (yum!) I can't help but write more about my nutrition battles! BAH! Ok so luv subway! I do....iLuv the subs! But....i find myself eating more salads there than breads. Check this out people. I mean really listen to me. Do you monitor your sodium intake? If not you should! You really should...amongst other things people! LOL! But seriously...let's dish. How much sodium do you eat a day? Are you at the daily recommendations which on a 2000 calorie intake is 2400mg? Well I sort of monitor this amongst other things. I don't monitor my calories, fat, cholesterol (which I'm working on). I eat a lot of peanut butter, drink a lot of milk and eat 'Eating Right' meals prepared by Lucerne Farms (Safeway) which gives me beaucoup protein, calcium, fiber and vitamin D.

So let's get back to subway. Bread. Bread has a lot of sodium! Can you believe it?!? Go check out how many mg of sodium 2 slices of bread have and compare it to a 500mg tv dinner. It's shocking that 2 months ago I didn't realize how much sodium I had in my diet. I had to cut breads back. Don't ween yourself off of it, but cut back. This is not a carb back off because pasta /rice are good cards too without the sodium bread has. So just an FYI for you guys.

On a side note....Biggest Loser once again is pushing me...I topped the contestants on their half marathon by doing 15 miles. Now these doods are gonna a marathon! So...it's challenge time! It is sooo challenge time. If they're gonna do a marathon, the dammit! So am I!!! I will have a treadmill, with lots of water and a pair of extra socks. I'll time myself and if I can do it outside by planning a trail, I'll do it...I'm soooo gonna do it and I'll blog about it!

Very excited to see these contestants do it and push me to my limits. That's all =)

PBJ vs Eating Right

So i'm rushing to get to work and I don't have time to make a good sandwich so I grab the Simply Jif peanut butter, all natural blackberry jelly and three slices of Nature's Own whole wheat bread. Now normally I don't think about the calories of this crap because I've gone to the store, looked over all the ingredients that I have in my house and then i have an epiphany! How many calories is in this sandwich and what is its nutriotional value compared to one of my Eating Right TV Dinners.

So I grab my Steak tips and Vegetables which is 290 calories and 310mg sodium. My PBJ has 450 calories and compares in sodium! The extra slice killed me. When I make a triple slice sandwich it doubles the ingredients I use for Jelly (60 cals p/tbsp) and PB (190 cals p/2tbsp). The bread is 50 cals p/slice (and no high frutcose)

For $2 Giant/Safeway sell these eating right meal, and I grab the ones that use multi-grain rice. They are the lowest sodium TV dinners you will fine, taste delicious (my fav is the 5-grain, chicken w/plum sauce & snow peas). Eat healthy, Be Smart!




Aight added note! After reviewing the box from eating right I find that there is way too much *ahem* CRAP in the 5-grain beef & vegetables....specifically CORN shit! My biggest nemesis is high fructose corn syrup WHICH i've managed to get out of my house...how did this slip past me?!? Corn syrup solids (3X), corn starch, corn starch-modified (2X), Light corn syrup (corn syrup water, high fructose corn syrup) and lastly modified corn starch. Egh! So this blog is still good...u decide, know what you're eating and take those added calories or fuck it! I like corn B-P