Aa! Miscalculated!

[lynn]

I was just printing out my food log for the past seven days to give to Mr. W. today and I realised, as I was looking it over, that I completely miscalculated one item I've been eating almost every day.

Odwalla Chocolate Protein Monster.

One 8oz serving is 220 calories, 18 grams of protein, 27 grams of carbs, 4 grams of fat.

I've been drinking half a bottle midmorning and another half midafternoon most days.

One 15oz bottle equals about two servings.

I've been recording each half bottle as half a serving.

That means:

220 calories, 18 grams of protein, 27 grams of carbs and 4 grams of fat has been going unrecorded 3 or 4 days out of 7 this week. Which doesn't really affect my p/c/f percentages so much- but does definitely affect the number of calories I thought I was eating and diligently keeping track of.

ARGH!!

Comments

[aislingfaye]

Argh! I hate when that happens!

We've had a couple different non-dairy "milk" options this week... I've been getting confused as to which is which and I'm sure I've accidentally grabbed the wrong one (I'll sometimes click on a previous day if there are things I've had recently, so I don't have to search for it -- but the "recent items" column doesn't work that great for me and doesn't always have the item on it, so that's why I do that). I'm sure each one has a different serving size and they definitely have different nutritional stats!

Who knows what else I've been doing like that! *laughs*

[lynn]

I'm sure here and there I miscalculate serving size, or nutrients, but generally it should all be pretty close. 220 calories is a small meal. VERY frustrating. Still. Glad I found it out today before I started drinking my monster. :)

I hope the LiveStrong site is still working for you. It's so convenient. Since I haven't been wearing my GoWear Fit lately (short sleeve weather), I might start doing everything on LiveStrong.

[aislingfaye]

Yes it has! Since I have such a low calorie-count to start with and I've found that if I go over that a bit here and there, as long as I'm still getting quality I should be fine. I don't feel the need to record every little squirt of mustard (sometimes I do on the more interesting things, just out of curiousity or if I use more of something).

I go for more of a ballpark estimate so I don't go too insane (OCD) with counting and fretting about hitting an exact number.

It's worked great! Especially for planning my meals for the day... that is the best part of it! Btw, I haven't really had any more troubles with the site loading. Must have just been something up that day in particular.