Vitabot: An eye opener

I am not one for math, let me just say that right off. When too many numbers are thrown at me, it all becomes a blur. I just don't enjoy precision. That is why i don't bake. I like to COOK. To create, a little of this a little of that... So for me to attempt to use Vitabot, the online nutrition guidance counselor, basically, is a big step... it is a testament to how much i want to live a healthy lifestyle ON A REGULAR basis and what lenghts i will take to get there. Vitabot is a great tool. For my first day, i really needed to get the feel for it and see where i was at with my daily routines...like i said, i never really counted calories as precisely as Vitabot is suggesting i do. But it is not abou counting calories only. I loved that my "report card" would actually show me where i was lacking nutritionally. AND give me the knowledge and info to fix that. So, i started off with my normal routing: upon waking i make coffee...i usually have 2 large cups with at least 2 T of half and half and 1T of sugar per cup. Well that adds up to: 250 calories! Just for the coffee...when your whole breakfast is technically supposed to be around 400 calories,that does not leave much room for food. HMMMM ok, so i will have one cup...now i can have my granola (one cup) with 1 cup almond milk with one scoop of protein powder and i can't remember what else i had, but it came to over 700 calories! for breakfast...beleive me i wa not eating donuts. i might as well have been. Long story short, when the day was done, and when i finally put all my recipes/nutrition labels in, i was at 2056 calories for the day! Without a glass of wine! My only sweet for the day was 2 squares of dark chocolate. This is a typical day for me eating wise i would say, and unfortunatley, my recommended caloric allowance is somewhere between 1200 and 1560 calories. I think the lower if i wanted to lose and the higher to maintain. YIKES. So i have some tweaking to do. And my report card scores were mostly bad grades! I would say 50/50 but definitley much room for improvement. I ate all those calories, but yet i was borderline starving myself nutirtionally. Oh wait, i was high in a couple of areas on my report card, carbs, SODIUM, Calories, all the bad stuff...i was low on Vitamin B12 so checking into vitabot's site, i found that i should add tuna to my meal plan tomorrow and that will take care of that! Now if i can only cut down the calories! At least i did hard core zumba for an hour, there is a bright side. First day an eye-opener for sure. But for anyone looking for a rude awakening, try Vitabot through your fitness provider! Has some kinks, but overall a great program to help you keep track of yourself!