W(h)ine

I knew this was going to happen. 

The most practical way of logging what I eat is on my phone - it's the only thing I can hope to have handy most of the time, except when I forget where I put it, which is quite regularly. I generally find it again fairly quickly.

And what with the bar code reader fun on MyFitnessPal, it made most sense to use that for the logging. This means I'm getting calorie information when I didn't really want to see it at this stage. One day of diary keeping and I'm slightly horrified already.

Yesterday was not a particularly typical day, in that I worked in the office in the morning but then spent the afternoon on a train and the evening helping out at a work event, which ended with a buffet. However I didn't feel like I had eaten much more or less than average, plus I had a couple of glasses of wine, just to be sociable. I added it all to the diary today.

It's tricky to be accurate - what exactly was in that veggie wrap I had? How big was the spring roll? Some items which look identical in MyFitnessPal have several different values. For example, looking up "poached egg" (breakfast this morning) gives options ranging from 64 to 80kCal.

Which is all beside the point. Assuming I got somewhere near a reasonable guess for most of what I ate, my food intake for the day was around 2100kCal. Not disastrous, could have lived without the crisps at lunchtime. Unfortunately I also drank about 500kCal in wine. I have a horrid feeling that the single food group that may sabotage my efforts is fermented grape product.

When I started doing this I was very careful to not drink alcohol, not only on fast days but also the day before fast days, as I couldn't cope with the dehydration. As I have acclimatised to the fasting, that has slipped a bit - I still drink much less the day before a fast day but a glass or two of wine is not uncommon. At weekends, quite a bit more than a glass or two is very common indeed.

So, two things to do.
First, go back to where I started and cut out alcohol 4 days a week - 2 fast days and the 2 days before. And maybe take a longer term view on the quantity of wine consumed at weekends. <pouty face>

Secondly, find a different way of keeping my food diary so I don't become horribly obsessive. I've just downloaded a speech-to-text app to experiment with simply speaking my food to my phone and letting it take notes, so we will see how that goes.