Let it be known far and wide that I can keep a food diary.

After reading my friend Carrie's blog, coffee is on my mind. But rather than continue the spread of coffee related blogs through out the world, I will resist commenting on my own addiction.

Instead, I will celebrate the 6th day of what is officially the longest period of time I've ever kept a full and accurate food diary. *waits for the fanfare and applause*

Ok fine, it's not that big of a deal, but in this new quest I'm on, it's the single hardest part of the whole shebang. There are things that I have talent for and there are things whose mastery always seem to elude me. Keeping track of what I put in my mouth, taking pills and calculus compete for the top spot.

So, this is my new goal (previous goals were 1)plan menu and cook at home and 2)drink less Starbucks). I am, right now, not even concerned with what I have to write down (or embarrassed that the phrase "12 oz of coffee" repeats over and over and over again) as much as i am trying to be obsessed with getting it on paper. or...into the computer, as it were.

I was using my little journal software thing to keep track of it, but i recently found a free website that comes up with calorie counts for foods and entire recipes and decided this might be an even more useful tool to use as a diary.

I have been visiting the website often to calculate how many calories are in things like my chili recipe or the mashed mock-potatoes i made last week. It will take all the ingredients and put them together and divide it all out into the number of servings you choose. It breaks down fat, carbs, protein and other nutritional info also. Very handy.

I guess the whole point is to make this as easy and interesting as possible, so as to not stop doing it. Of course, now I want to track my progress with their nifty reports and such and so I have 5 more days of stuff to enter that I was putting in the journal and that's a bunch more work. Work, I think....that requires a cup of coffee to complete. Heh.