I’m finding I just can’t drink water at work like I do at home. I know water is important because it helps keep you healthy and lose weight.
FACT: Water helps lubricate your joints, aid in digestion, regulate body temperature and flush out toxins. It also keeps your kidneys working properly, which helps the kidneys in their fat-processing duties, and it suppresses your appetite and keeps you feeling full.
FACT: You’ve probably heard that drinking cold water burns up calories because your body needs to warm it up. That’s true. You can burn as much as 15 calories per glass of ice-cold water, depending on a few factors. I’d opt to exercise and eat right, but if you can get ice-cold water instead of just cool water, why not?
Luckily, I love water and I can blaze through bottle after bottle… but at home. Because, at home? I can go to the bathroom as many times as I want. At work, I don’t really feel comfortable with take hourly potty breaks. Let’s examine this.
First of all, it’s stupid, but I don’t like leaving my desk when I am waiting for important returned calls.
Secondly, there’s that whole issue of awkward hall interactions. I thought that would stop after high school… it’s back. People I don’t really like or care about or want to have conversation with are lurking outside of my newsroom. I’d rather keep my trips devoid of these kind of encounters — less trips = lower odds.
There aren’t that many women on my floor, it seems, so my odds of someone being in there when I want to do my business aren’t too, too high. (I really like to be alone when I go to the bathroom. Call me crazy.) But it has happened enough. And someone is making that room stink before I get in there… *shudder*
Then there’s the obvious: I’m busy at work and not focused on chugging down water. And I can’t bring like 8 bottles in my purse. (That damn watercooler seems to always be empty as soon as I really want to dispense some water from it. Like today.)
I guess my only solution is to try to bring my total up by one bottle and work from there. Tomorrow I will bring two.
By the way, I read the other day that people want to ban bottled water. Sure, it’s bad for the environment and it’s not healthier than tap, but damn it, I like it out of the bottle. They should add that 5-cent deposit so people start recycling them anyway.
…I promise this blog will get better.
…I can’t promise that. Anyway! Calorie total time!
Foods
Cals Fat Carb Prot Kashi Oat flakes & wild blueberry cluster ( 0.5 cup ) 100 1 21 3 Tops Bran Flakes – whole wheat & bran ( 0.6 cup ) 72 0 18 2 Tops Fat-Free Milk, vitamin A & D ( 0.5 cup ) 45 0 7 4 Wegman’s sushi – California (1 roll) ( 5 serving ) 200 5 35 5 Hillshire Farm rotisserie chicken Deli Select ( 3 oz ) 75 1 6 15 Hot cayenne pepper sauce ( 3 teaspoon ) 2 0 0 0 Lettuce, raw ( 1 cup, shredded or chopped ) 7 0 1 1 Margherita hard salami (1 slice) ( 5 serving ) 100 8 1 5 Sargento reduced-fat provolone (1 slice) ( 2 serving ) 100 7 0 10 Schwebel’s American Rye seedless (1 slice) ( 4 serving ) 240 2 48 8 Sargento chipotle cheddar (1 sice) ( 1 serving ) 80 6 1 5 Ground beef, regular, cooked ( 1 large patty (5.3 oz, raw, 3 patties per lb) (yield after cooking) ) 324 23 0 27 Mt. Olive sweet relish ( 1 tablespoon ) 20 0 4 0 Kashi TLC bar honey almond flax ( 1 serving ) 140 5 19 7 Wilson Farms hamburger bun (1) ( 1 serving ) 120 2 23 4 Almonds, unroasted ( 25 almond ) 173 15 6 6 Total 1797 76 190 102
Please keep in mind these foods are not in order of any kind. It’s just my daily total.
That damn cheeseburger killed me. My mom had made some and I was starving when I came home. They were ready to be eaten with no preparation and I ate one. But only one. I wanted two, believe me. The hamburger I ate may be less calories than what I put in my total, but I’d rather go over and tell myself to work harder than go under and tell myself I did good.
