Calories
Random fact about me. I consider myself to have high self esteem right now. I like to own my body, like my curves, love how others also love my soft parts. But I'm working a night job, and that comes with certain things that I have to watch out for. Such as cancer. And because my body is mostly sedentary, I'm going to have to go out of my way to stay in my pants. My shorts burst a button today.
Just how far off am I from getting breast cancer? I won't know until ten years from now or a lump. I check pretty regularly for those. I'm too young for mammograms. I'm already vegetarian. I don't exercise regularly, but I do relax.
My increased cancer risk is due to my circadian rhythm interruption, and my body producing extra estrogen because I'm bigger. Another way to reduce my risk is to pop out a kid. Nine months of menstruation interruption messes with estrogen. I wonder if dating someone on HRT is also going to affect that. Case in point, Montreal throws my periods off by a week or so when we hook up. I believe that eir body makes mine think that eir's is ovulating every day. A friend of mine was telling me that it's called Estrace because you leave traces of estrogen everywhere. I don't even know how to fact check that little nugget.
Whatever! Montreal is an acceptable risk!!!
So I'm keeping track of my life this week. Calories in and out. I want to figure out if I'm eating right, and I found this passable counter on a website that actually included Chinese food and Indian items. The first time I tried it out, I freaked out at the 1200 calorie limit it randomly set for me, until I actually did the math for today and found out that I came under that. And before I counted sleeping and sitting in a chair doing office work, I was way under my 2640 burning...
For those curious about what I ate today, I had:
4 stalks of steamed gailan with garlic and soy sauce
Teriyaki tofu and vegetable stir fry over Chinese white rice
4 inches Zucchini
1 carrot
2 baby bok choys
4 inches of tofu
1/2 cooking onion
2 table spoons of teriyaki glaze
2 cups of Apple juice
More stir fry for dinner
Sorta Greek salad
1/2 avocado cubed
10 pitted kalamata olives
1 roma tomato
3 inches of goat feta
2 table spoons of balsamic
1/4 onion
dash of oregano
Ok. I might be a little daft here, but is it not a little disturbing that they're trying to tell me to burn 2640 calories and only take in 1200? I mean, that's a little harsh, isn't it? But what do I know. I'm not actually dieting, I'm just not spending money on luxury items, call it a poverty diet.
This doesn't sound right to me. But whatever, I didn't do anything weird today. I mean, I didn't eat out at all, and I also didn't meet my daily requirement of protein, calcium, or potassium. Those I think, are way more troubling to me than the calorie thing. Might be a reason I've been eyeing those nuts in the store lately. And my addiction to cheese.
Just how far off am I from getting breast cancer? I won't know until ten years from now or a lump. I check pretty regularly for those. I'm too young for mammograms. I'm already vegetarian. I don't exercise regularly, but I do relax.
My increased cancer risk is due to my circadian rhythm interruption, and my body producing extra estrogen because I'm bigger. Another way to reduce my risk is to pop out a kid. Nine months of menstruation interruption messes with estrogen. I wonder if dating someone on HRT is also going to affect that. Case in point, Montreal throws my periods off by a week or so when we hook up. I believe that eir body makes mine think that eir's is ovulating every day. A friend of mine was telling me that it's called Estrace because you leave traces of estrogen everywhere. I don't even know how to fact check that little nugget.
Whatever! Montreal is an acceptable risk!!!
So I'm keeping track of my life this week. Calories in and out. I want to figure out if I'm eating right, and I found this passable counter on a website that actually included Chinese food and Indian items. The first time I tried it out, I freaked out at the 1200 calorie limit it randomly set for me, until I actually did the math for today and found out that I came under that. And before I counted sleeping and sitting in a chair doing office work, I was way under my 2640 burning...
For those curious about what I ate today, I had:
4 stalks of steamed gailan with garlic and soy sauce
Teriyaki tofu and vegetable stir fry over Chinese white rice
4 inches Zucchini
1 carrot
2 baby bok choys
4 inches of tofu
1/2 cooking onion
2 table spoons of teriyaki glaze
2 cups of Apple juice
More stir fry for dinner
Sorta Greek salad
1/2 avocado cubed
10 pitted kalamata olives
1 roma tomato
3 inches of goat feta
2 table spoons of balsamic
1/4 onion
dash of oregano
Ok. I might be a little daft here, but is it not a little disturbing that they're trying to tell me to burn 2640 calories and only take in 1200? I mean, that's a little harsh, isn't it? But what do I know. I'm not actually dieting, I'm just not spending money on luxury items, call it a poverty diet.
This doesn't sound right to me. But whatever, I didn't do anything weird today. I mean, I didn't eat out at all, and I also didn't meet my daily requirement of protein, calcium, or potassium. Those I think, are way more troubling to me than the calorie thing. Might be a reason I've been eyeing those nuts in the store lately. And my addiction to cheese.