What not to do

Here's what I've learned this past week about my own hunger and appetite.

I cannot survive on a 90 calorie fiber one bar for breakfast. That alone, spurred the mother of hunger to awaken in my gut. And she is not pretty when she's awakened.

I thought I'd try to cut some points out of the first half of my day by skimping on breakfast. Won't be doing that again. No matter what I ate throughout the rest of the day, I was STARVING. The hunger pains would not give it up. My day went like this
Fiber 1 bar --> 1 point 90 calories
Lunch, Smart ones meal --> 4 points 220 calories
Carrots --> 0 points. Unsure of the calories

Need less to say, by supper time, I was still hungry. I had an hour to kill before I took Jayda to Kids Club, so we went to a restaurant. I had onion rings and french fries and ate them ravenously. I hadn't had a french fry in almost a month. MMMM, I'm not sure if I even chewed them or just inhaled them.
So here's how the rest of that breaks down point wise
20 french fries --> 10 points. Yes, TEN points
small order of onion rings --> 7 points

And that wrapped up my 22 points for the day.  And guess what, I was STILL hungry.

Lesson learned....must eat more filling foods right away to sustain my hunger and energy level. The day prior, I had consumed about 800 calories total, and worked out for 40 minutes, burning 500 calories (per the machine). I was depleted by the time the next morning hit...= a bad day.

Today, for breakfast I had a peach (1 point) a bagel (bagel thins 1 point) with light cream cheese (1 point) and at coffee I had half a banana, only because the other half was getting yucky (1 point). Breakfast total = 4 points. Hunger total = 0

Lunch, smart ones meal (4 points), carrots (0 points). Lunch total = 4 points.

Supper, beef pasta hamburger helper (6 points (one cup)). 1 piece of Sara lee 45 cal bread (1 point) with butter and honey (2 points) Supper total = 9 points and I'm completely FULL with points to spare.

Obviously still learning here, and figuring out what does NOT work, and what is workable.

Here's some fun facts to blow your mind. Or just make you sick
1 cup of real butter = 48 points
Not that any of you would ever eat a whole cup of butter for the fun of it...just puts it into perspective

A cheeseburger from Denny's = 40 points
Wendy's Jr cheeseburger = 6 points
McDonald's cheeseburger = 7 points
Sonic's bacon cheeseburger = 19 points

Taco bell grilled steak taco = 6 points
Taco bell soft taco = 4 points
Taco bell nachos = 8 points

20oz bottle of coke = 5 points
20 oz bottle of Mt dew = 5.5 points
20oz bottle of Dr Pepper = 8 points
All diet pop is 0 points. Coffee and unsweetened teas are 0 points.

A starbucks mocha Grande frappe is 5 points. A light mocha grande frappe is 2 points

A baked potato = 3 points
20 fries = 10 points

Well that's enough for now. Enjoy!