Downsizing Episode 287: Snacky New York

Um, in general, I think it was a pretty respectful week in terms of eating.

Um, I've continued to count my calories.

I'm, I'm weighing my food.

Uh, I think the, the pinnacle of it is, uh, we had some banh mi for dinner, and I found myself measuring the bread because it gives, hey, uh, cal- this is a serving size.

It's one quarter of the baguette.

So I'm like, "Well, what the fuck is a q- " So I measured, found the halfway point, figured it out, did some calculations, um, and that's just, that's just, you know, not something I would've been doing, uh, a while ago.

Um, so it is feeling kind of insane.

Um, I'm not, I'm not loving doing it, but it's also not as much of a pain in the ass as I thought it would, would be.

Now, I am also ...

I'm playing it a little bit fast and loose.

There are certain things where if I put them in, like [laughs] this, this seems like it's a recipe for a bad ... for, for a disaster, but I think so far it's been, it's been fine.

Where like, here's an example.

The other night Liz made delicious homemade pesto, basil from the, from the garden, which is a plastic tote bag, t- ugh, plastic tote that is on our balcony.

Made some delicious pesto, had some pasta and some pesto spaghetti and some, and some salad.

I just logged the spaghetti because for one, I have no godly idea how I would figure out how much of ...

Even if I knew, even if I went in and said, "Okay, the total calories for the pesto.

There was this much basil, there was this much, uh, cashews," 'cause we're not fucking buying pine nuts.

Are you fucking out of your mind? Um, this much, uh, fucking cheese and whatever.

Even if I got the total, the net calories, I, I'm not doing a surface area calculation of, okay, one strand of spaghetti has fucking this much surface area, so if it, if the, if I calculate the overall, the volume and the surface area and how much coating it ...

No. I'm just not doing that.

But it's not like I'm going like ...

It's not like I'm hitting, you know, 50 calories off my goal every day.

I'm, I'm going pretty under, and I'm not, I'm not having like a ton of cream sauces.

I'm not eating a lot of cheese.

So I think, and I have been slimming down, so I think it's fine.