Friday, May 20, 2011

Why sodas are no bueno

Lupe got home at 1am Thursday from the Kylie Minogue concert & woke me up... I couldn't go back to sleep until after 3am... I missed PT yesterday because I was so damn tired... that is OK, I had to go clean out my old/new office and get it fire code compliant so I'll still got some workout.
So I had not been drinking sodas for a while other than the occasional Vanilla Coke from Sonic because they are a yummy treat.

Yesterday during the mass clean-up/out & rearrange of my old/new office - University Hall 317 - I was thirsty. There was no bottled water, but a plethora of generic (store brand) cans of soda in the fridge. So over the course of several hours of hard work I consumed 2 and a half sodas. A creme, an orange, and half of a cola. While generic soads are not all that tasty (esp. the cola one) then were refreshing and wet my whistle, as well as gave me a sugar burst/energy that I needed while doing all that heavy lifting/furniture pushing.

So I ended up over my daily calorie goal by 520 clalories yesterday - FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY WERE THE SODAS!!!!

420 calories

Four hundred and twenty!!!!

That is a whole lot of "empty calories" - now, I know I burned a lot yesterday doing all that physical labor, but still! It blew my mind when I was filling in my food diary on My Fitness Pal and those sodas added up to 420! That is just under a third of my daily calories!!

This is a process and I am not beating myself up about it - I am pretty sure I worked most of the soda off pushing two huge metal desks, a fridge, some metal bookcases, and 15 HUGE (and heavy) boxes of books around the office yesterday. I am sore today, but in the good way. Yoga will probably really feel awesome tonight - I hope we do LOTS of stretching!

So, lesson learned, use one of the 500 plastic party cups in the office to walk down to the water fountain & fill up next time instead of reaching for a Refreshe Creme Soda! 420! Eeesh!



PS - This is a new treat I tried and really like it! They are so yummy and so little & cute!

5 comments:

  1. Good for your for noticing and learning from this! Can you believe you used to drink all that without a second thought? Love seeing you change your habits to be healthier!

    Sarah

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  2. I know! I shudder to think about Route 44 Vanilla Cokes from Sonic - they have to have 500 calories at least!! Curiosity is going to make me go look that up now.

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  3. Thanks! i *knew* it would be 500+. Counting is my new thing, too... it is SO eye opening. I think I maybe posed here not too long ago about my shocking eye-opener about Taco Bueno bean burritos... I would pick 2 of them up on my way home at night 3x/week after 11pm thinking "hey it is just bean burritos, better than a burger & fries, right?" Until I found out a few months ago they have 609 calories EACH! EACH! No wonder I am so fat! 1218 calories at midnight!!! After junk food all day...

    Well, at lest I am more aware now and can still do something about it! YAY US Michelle!

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  4. I wonder how many calories are in a Route 44 Diet Dr. Pepper w/ vanilla? That's my go-to Sonic drink and it's AMAZING. It's a good substitute for the real deal if you have a craving...

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