 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali and today I'm going to start filming my week of calorie counting. So I'll be honest, I started doing this, I think three or four days ago, I think today is my fourth day of doing this, but I didn't think to film it until like yesterday night. I'm going to start filming what I eat and my progress throughout this week. So I am starting on a Sunday, so that means I'll end next Sunday. And the app that I'm using is my fitness pal. I don't have the premium membership or subscription or whatever. I'm just using like the basics and it's been getting me by. I don't see anything wrong with it. I also am not working out every single day and I might throw in like one or two home workouts that maybe burn me some extra calories so that I can eat a little more. I might actually do that today because I want something kind of big for dinner. But I also am trying to combine intermittent fasting with this calorie counting thing. It's currently 10.30 a.m. I got up around 8.30 a.m. and I'm starting to get really, really hungry. I've just been trying to keep myself busy. That is actually my first tip for this calorie counting. I've only been doing it for three days, like I said, but I find that if I keep myself busy, I don't want to eat or I don't even like think about like snacking or anything like that. I don't really feel as hungry if I'm actually like putting my mind to work. So we're going to start this video off by doing my weigh-in and I'm kind of nervous about this. I know weight is just a number but I just feel like weird sharing it. I don't know. I don't know. But here we go, I guess. Don't mind my balance. It's kind of like messed up. I don't know what happened but it still works. And I'll actually link it down below for you guys. I got on Amazon a while ago and it hooks up to your phone through Bluetooth so you can keep track of your weight through their app. All right, here we go. All right, y'all. So moment of truth. I weighed in at 163.2 pounds. For those of you who are curious, I did weigh in at like 164 when I was starting to calorie count. I think it was like 164.5. And when I made my profile through the app, it asked me how many pounds I wanted to lose per week. And the maximum only goes to two, I'm pretty sure. So I did that. So it's not going to be a super fast process. I hope it will be. But we'll see. For those of you who have been keeping up with my orange theory fitness journey, you would know that I made like a really vulnerable video this summer just talking about how I felt really my last year of college and just how I felt with my body at the time. And I think during that time, I weighed in at my heaviest around 175. And that was this past summer. So I am really, really proud of my progress, but it sucks being in this quarantine because obviously orange theory is closed. So it's been hard to keep up that motivation with working out. And I definitely have not been keeping up with it. So that is why I want to do this calorie counting thing is because I just have been eating so bad. And I just need to actually be a little bit more structured. It's been really interesting seeing so far what I normally eat and how many calories it actually is. Those are my first couple of thoughts on this whole calorie counting thing. And I guess I'll update you guys during my next or my first meal of the day. It is 1151. I made it. I'm so happy. And I decided that I want oatmeal today because my soy milk is about to go bad. First of all, and second of all, I have fresh raspberries that I also need to use. And yeah, so we're going to make some oatmeal. I've been loving these old fashioned oats. I feel like they're just chewier because they're the whole oat and I really like like tree foods. I don't know if that's weird. So we're doing half a cup of oats. This is the soy milk I'm using. It's the very vanilla one, which is probably more calories, but it tastes so good and you don't have to add any extra sugar. So we're going to do a half a cup of this too. I just heated up my oatmeal in the microwave and now I'm going to add half a cup of raspberries. Another tip I have for y'all is to eat with a smaller spoon just so you can savor every single bite. It's 119 and I'm still feeling a little bit hungry. So I think I'm going to finish off this coffee that I had from yesterday and I don't even know how much this would be, but I'm just going to guesstimate and like tell my app that it's like a small Starbucks coffee I think. For dinner I had a burrito with no rice in it and a street taco. This took up a lot of calories but it was so worth it. Good morning y'all. It is Monday April 20th and it is almost 11.30. This morning I actually downloaded the app Zero and it has a timer for intermittent fasting. So this is really going to help me because at first I thought I could only eat at 12 but since I stopped eating at 7.30 yesterday my I think it's like an 18 hour or is it 16 hour? 16 hour fast is complete at 11.30 today. So now I can eat a little earlier which is exciting. I'm craving oatmeal. I don't know why but luckily I am because that is like a low calorie breakfast. So I'm just going to make it exactly like I made it yesterday. For lunch I just ended up having salmon sashimi with ponzu sauce. It is 5.50 and I'm ready to eat dinner. I'm going to be baking some fish that we got at H Mart yesterday. That is actually where we got the sashimi I ate before this for like a little afternoon snack. The way that my dad used to cook it is like a lemon kind of fish so basically I don't have capers but there was lemon, onions, capers, cilantro. That's pretty much it. It's super simple and I think you just bake it in the oven at 450 which I need to preheat the oven. I don't think it takes that long. He gave me the directions. I need to look it up. I think it's like 10 minutes. Oh and also you put like salt and pepper and just like you know things to taste. Also pro tip it is actually free to get it cut in a specific way so we asked for a butterfly cut and so I just threw in some onions, lemon, all that stuff and it's gonna be so good. I'm gonna say it's 270 calories. I'm also gonna add some green beans. I'm gonna do like a garlic maybe Parmesan. I don't know I just said it was 100 calories. We'll see. I want to make a drink right now. I personally don't even like the taste of alcohol so I'm not gonna be having like any alcohol cravings but I am a big sugary drink girl. Like my favorite thing is like a good sprite that just makes your taste buds all fizzily but unfortunately I can't have that right now because that's just drinking your calories but recently I've been starting to really like kombucha and Lacroix. I like the lemon flavor of Lacroix and then the kombucha is the watermelon one I talked about in another vlog and my taste buds had definitely warmed up to it. It actually tastes good now. I just got these glasses so I'm really obsessed with making cocktails and just cute ones and like making little garnishes. I just figured out how to dehydrate fruit. This is actually a blood orange and I found it at Hmart. They're like not easy to find. They're just cute to put in a cocktail so I'm gonna flop this one in there. Oh my god so cute. Also I'll link these glasses down below. They're known as like the blogger wine glasses. I swear they make any drink look super trendy so I'm gonna pour this four ounces. That's actually kind of a lot. I'm kind of surprised that it's not that many calories because the flavor is really good and I would think there would be like more sugars in there and stuff but I'm not complaining. And then I'm just gonna add a lemon Lacroix zero calories. I also got these glass straws and they look so cute and there's my little locale cocktail. Oh my god. Actually so good. Okay this is literally going to be my treat every night. I calculated four ounces of this is 75 calories so this whole mocktail with 75 calories and for a girl who likes to drink their calories like this is so good. I'm cooking the green beans and I have to add a spoon of garlic. This just makes the green beans so yummy. The fish came out of the oven and it looks so beautiful that I'm literally having a full on photo shoot with my dang dinner. The sun was a bit harsh so I decided to diffuse the lighting with this white sheet so I literally just threw it over the window super easy and now let's get back to shooting my food. I got the shot now it is time to eat. I'm only gonna eat half of this and save the rest for Ryan. I tried to fight it but I'm really in the mood for something sweet and I have some extra calories so I'm gonna eat this yasso bar. I'm pretty sure it's only a hundred calories the last time I checked. This is a flavor cookie dough and probably one of my favorite flavors. For breakfast I had the same oatmeal as always and then for lunch I decided to snack on this tuna sashimi which was actually lowering calories than the salmon from yesterday. For dinner we are making steak and then I'm also gonna be air frying some Brussels sprouts. All right they cooked for 12 minutes and they are done. Oh just got fogged up but I think I'm gonna add some balsamic glaze on top. This is the glaze I'm using. It has 35 calories and a tablespoon so I'm just gonna go ahead and eyeball it. Good morning. I have a pimple patch on this morning so just don't mind that but I have big news. I'm eating chick-fil-a for breakfast. I started my fast pretty early last night so I'm ending it pretty early this morning. Still 16 hour fast. I think I'm gonna eat 11 it's currently 1030 so I'm gonna wait 30 more minutes but I just got chicken minis and hash browns. I put it in my fitness pal and it said I think it was like around 500 and something calories. Obviously it's not the best but usually I get like a lemonade so I didn't get the lemonade and I tried to like save my calories where I could and obviously I didn't have to get the hash browns but the hash browns are so good. So I'm gonna eat that for breakfast this morning and then hopefully throughout the day I can just find some really low-cal snacks. I think I'm gonna go ahead and eat a lean cuisine for dinner tonight but we'll see. I'll keep you all updated. Just clocked out of work and I'm gonna go outside on my porch and do an outdoor workout. I have a couple of equipment things like resistant bands and then also I got new weights so I'm excited to try those out. I definitely want to try to burn at least 200 calories so let's do it. Three minutes later and I burned 300 calories. I decided to just keep going because I was already getting really sweaty and might as well just burn extra calories especially because I have that Chick-fil-A this morning. So I'm gonna help in the shower and then decide what I'm gonna eat for dinner. So this is what I'm having for dinner. It's actually 430 calories but I have some extra calories because I worked out so I am gonna treat myself. I guess this is like kind of my low-key cheat day because I have Chick-fil-A too. Morning y'all. I did my makeup and not my hair just yet so I'm gonna be looking like bozo for now but don't mind me. I have actually some exciting news. Like I said I did start this calorie counting journey a little before I started vlogging it but I saw my progress photo from last Thursday in my app and the weight I was and I was exactly two pounds heavier last week so I literally lost exactly what the app told me I would lose because like I said that was the max that they would let me like choose so I'm super hyped that it's working. I obviously wish that I could lose a little bit more in a week but I know I'm trying to do it like the healthy way and make it more of like a lifestyle hopefully. So that is really exciting and today is Thursday. It is the last day I work out of the week because I am part-time only so I get Fridays off so I'm gonna drink some coffee today and I looked up the calories for an espresso pod it said like two calories or almost none so I guess I'm just not gonna count it. Just filled up my coffee in my mason jar it is so cute it comes with this lid and then I have these glass straws that I'm obsessed with. I love these I'll actually link all of this down below I got everything on Amazon. What am I doing? I need a lot of creamer. We have two choices for creamer today and this is the oat milk creamer from Natural Bliss it's in the flavor vanilla. This is 25 calories per tablespoon and then we have the caramel macchiato creamer from Starbucks and this is 40 calories per tablespoon so I think I'm gonna try to do this one. I asked Ryan how he liked it and he said he liked it but he doesn't think I would like it because I need like a lot of sugar for me to actually like the coffee. If you know me you know that my coffee is basically a lot of creamer and a little bit of coffee so I don't I don't know if this is gonna suffice but we'll see. Ten. Alright let's see. Ten would be 250 calories. Alright I can work with this I feel like it tastes a bit watery but it will do. The coffee definitely made me full but it is 12 30 I just clocked out at work for my lunch break and I think I'm gonna make scrambled eggs and like have a whole avocado which I didn't realize how many calories is in a freaking avocado it's not okay because I always thought these were so healthy but I guess it's just like healthy fats but I'm just gonna go ahead and eat it and eat it with my lime and chili flakes. It takes the clock so we're cooking steak and spinach. I'm gonna make my little mocktail with my passion fruit and my lemon and the kroy. I showed it to you guys the other day so probably just like speed through this. Happy Friday y'all it is 12 16 p.m and I have not really been hungry this whole morning if you guys didn't know I do work a part-time job and it's remote so I don't work on Fridays that's my day off so I've been pretty busy I've literally just been doing random errands like I had so many like little things to pick up curbside from random places like I got some prints done from home no office max and then I went to Home Depot to get light bulbs and I ordered this all online it was all curbside pickup but that means you have to like wait a long time in your car for them to like get it all ready and stuff for you um so it kind of took like a while and I also went to summer moon and got Ryan and I some coffee but I like surprisingly I don't feel tired just yet and I'm really shocked because I stayed up till 2 a.m writing out like random scripts for youtube videos it was just all coming to my mind at 2 a.m and I just like couldn't stop so I'm really surprised I'm not um tired yet but I'm gonna save that coffee for later um because it is really sugary and I know it's gonna hit hard on my calories for the day if I do drink it but honestly I've been dehydrated the whole morning because literally every single time I walk out the door I have my hydroflask on me but for some reason this morning I forgot it and so I was very dehydrated so I'm not even like hungry because I've been keeping myself busy and I'm just like meeting water so oh you got Chipotle huh Ryan just got home babe I kind of eaten that all right so I'm gonna actually eat this one this is the healthy choice cafe steamer chicken margarito with balsamic I feel like the tomatoes are just calling my name even though they aren't fresh right now we have like no fresh fruit and that's all I freaking want right now this meal is 270 calories it's 122 and I'm going to have half of this um winter moon from summer moon I looked it up it says a 12 ounce is like 270 calories and I think this might be like a 20 ounce so I just estimated and said it was 270 so happy saturday y'all just one more day of this I'm gonna eat this for lunch it is currently 1242 I really haven't been super hungry this morning but this is 260 calories it is 3 p.m and Ryan just bought a bike so we're gonna go on a bike ride somewhere downtown we're just gonna like drive somewhere and then start biking oh I need to bring my apple watch so I can tell how many calories I burn so I can possibly eat some more no I'm not gonna do it because I really want to like hit my goal tomorrow so we'll see yes this is the second night I'm eating this burrito it is just that good it is sunday april 26th and I wanted to end this video with just my overall thoughts on calorie counting and what I actually ended up weighing in at so let's do that first this morning I weighed in at 161.8 and I started this whole calorie counting journey weighing in at 164 so I lost 2.2 pounds this week and the app told me that I would lose two pounds so I wish it was a little bit more I did gain a little bit of weight last night I'm kind of sad because I did exercise but I think it was just that burrito I'm just like obsessed with those dang burritos like y'all saw I literally ate it three times this week I just hope that this video kind of shows you that you can still eat the things that you like but you're just going to have to think more consciously about it for example I usually get a burrito and a little street taco and you saw that I did that I think it was the first time I ordered it but the next two times I didn't get the taco because I was like you know what the burrito fills me up it's fine like I can just eat this and that really took off so many calories from that one meal I've also come to realize that I intake my calories a lot through drinking just sugary drinks like I'm obsessed with Sprite I love a good like fizzy soda or anything like that and I wasn't able to drink Sprite this week also I'm just starting off drinking coffee so it's not like I can really have it black just yet because that is like discussing to me so I always need like so much creamer and creamer is so many calories like I realize this week and I feel like those calories definitely need to be allocated differently and just like filling me up with nutritious food obviously that's easier said than done because that takes a lot more effort but hopefully I can direct myself in that way you guys probably saw that I ate a lot of frozen meals I just thought this would be the easiest way to actually accurately count my calories I feel like it's definitely harder to estimate how many calories you're eating when you're making your own food even though it is more nutritious so I'm gonna start doing that a little bit more but for the sake of this video I did want to be more accurate so when I did cook my own food or I didn't know how many calories were in a specific food I would just always put more calories than I thought it would be just so I could have a little wiggle room I definitely didn't want to underestimate anything that I ate because then this process just would not be as helpful and accurate I'm really really glad I did this because it was so interesting to see how many calories are actually in a serving size that I would usually eat compared to the serving size that I was actually like accurately counting it was it was quite a shock I definitely realized that my portions need to be cut down a lot I think it's definitely harder for me because I am living with a boy a very tall boy that needs a lot of food I feel like whenever I make dinner and serve him I always serve myself the same portion and I know that we're not the same people he's literally six foot and I'm like five three so just like I just can't eat as much as him unfortunately I definitely want to keep continuing with calorie counting maybe not as strict but definitely looking at the calories and possibly inputting it into the my fitness pal app I do have a kitchen aid mixer on the way I'm so excited I finally bought one and that means sweet treats and yummy goodness so I know that I won't be as strict as I've been this week but I definitely want to be more conscientious of what I'm eating in the future and I'm definitely looking to lose more weight this is not stopping here so that is definitely why I want to continue and hopefully I can add more workouts hopefully I get the motivation but like also when all this quarantining is done with and I'm going to go back to orange theory hopefully that will help me to lose a lot more weight but I'm just really excited to continue this journey and I hope you guys found this video helpful or inspirational please let me know if you guys do this or have done it or want to try it because I love just seeing like transformation pics and just hearing really great progress stories so definitely comment that down below and I will see y'all in my next video bye