Or, as Mrs L would
say, Knowledge is Power!!
I have had this
brought home to me quite firmly this morning. Let me
explain.
When I work in the
office I tend to be up pretty early (6.30am) so am ready for my first meal of
the day (and starving) by mid-morning. Sometimes I'm able to postpone this
until an early lunchtime but other days I have a breakfast and a late lunch.
When I do the former, I'm somewhat constrained by the choices in the cafe
downstairs (I barely have time and brainpower to bring lunch let alone starting
on breakfast too!!). I have, therefore, got into the habit of having a
delicious wholemeal carrot and seedy muffin. I have been feeling relatively
virtuous because I do not have the chocolate or caramel or sweet fruity muffins
but choose the more earthy/healthy version.
Well, today there
was no carrot muffin out so I asked if they had any in the back which they did
but this time in its package! This meant that I could check the dietary stats
out. Yikes! 66g of carbs! The muffin I looked up at random came in more like
40g so I'd been wokring on something like that.
No wonder my
progress has been slow when I make errors like that. I'm meant to be trying to
keep my carbs under 140g per day. While I don't count slavishly, I have been
trying to approximate.
Ah well, I know now
so I can plan accordingly. For the record, by the time I'd spotted the dietary
stats hidden deep in the folds of the packaging, I'd already opened the pack and
was halfway through the muffin. I continued of course and enjoyed the muffin
all the more for knowing how naughty it is!!
A bacon and egg
sandwich would be better (and more filling) than the muffin. If I ask, they'd
probably do me bacon and egg without toast anyway so that might be the answer
for those days when I need to eat breakfast.
Tee
hee.....
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