$2 a day: day twenty eight

With four days left there is still plenty to talk about in relation to my experiment. The food I have is still plenty to eat but I am around some decisions about whether or not to get more. Here’s what I have left:

• 3.5 cans of tuna – 7 sandwiches
• 0.5 jar of peanut butter – plenty to randomly take spoonfuls
• 0.5 box of pancakes – 6-8 pancakes depending, plenty of syrup left
• 3 eggs – 3 sandwiches
• 16 slices of bread – 8 sandwiches
• 1 meal of spaghetti left
• ~18 meals

I had planned on buying one more loaf of bread and another dozen eggs. Right now I’m 4 pieces of bread short of the bread I’d need to make the rest of my tuna/egg sandwiches, but I could always just eat half a can of tuna without the bread, I still have light mayonnaise left. I think I am going to try and finish out on this amount of food only because of my peanut butter I have left. I have plenty to fill me up randomly throughout the day for a few meals. I still have some crappy apples left as well (but I just hate how mushy they are) and not to mention plenty of oatmeal.

The amount of food hasn’t been a problem with this experiment simply because of how much my stomach has shrunk. I can’t imagine going to a buffet right now, I’d be worthless. This is quite the way to portion meals to train yourself to eat less.

As far as next month I think I’ve come up with some tentative goals as far as what I want to shoot for, which are as follows (2000 calorie RDI intake in parenthesis):

• Calories – 1650-2000 (2000)
• Fat – less than 75g (65g)
• Carbs – 250g (300g)
  
• Sugar – less than 40g (0g)
  
• Protein – greater than 65g (50g)
  
• Sodium – less than 4000mg (2400mg)

In comparison, 8 ounces of mountain dew has 31g of sugar. Also, a value meal at most restaurants is going to pack from 1500-2500mg of sodium in you (assuming you’re not adding extra salt as well). The more and more I think about the amount of sodium in American’s diets it seems pretty ridiculous.

I am excited to be done with this so I can make myself one of my homemade pizzas and have my own chipotle night (I make burritos with rice, black beans, corn, marinated chicken, and sour cream). I’ll be excited to add variety back in next month, which should be plenty interesting to see how it correlates with my goals of what and how much intake.