So, my mom turned me onto something interesting called MyDailyPlate.  It's a free online food journal sponsored by LiveStrong.  You basically search for any food (including restaurant foods or specific brands) and it calculates how many calories you've eaten the entire day.  It gives you a breakdown on how much of it is carbs, protein, and fat.  You can also set up a plan with their Calorie calculator that tells you how many calories you can eat a day.  You fill out the info on the calculator, choose whether you want to maintain, gain, or lose weight (and how many lbs a week), and it tells you.  That then goes to "your plate" (what you've eaten that day) and says "you can still eat X calories today!"

You can also plug in how much you exercise.  You plug in what you did for how long and it calculates how many calories you burned.  Plus, there are an array of graphs they can calculate for you based on your weekly journals.  It's really awesome actually.

And!  Since I've been snacking on my homemade pumpkin brownies (of which there is nothing in the MyDailyPlate database), I was able to input the entire recipe and they calculated the nutrition information for it. :)

I really hope to use this effectively in trying to become healthier.  It's so much easier when you have OTHER people doing your math for you.  This way, I can now have somebody tell me "HEY.  You've over your effing limit!"  Lol.  It's almost like...a video game?  You have to stay under a certain amount.  

If you want to lose weight, become a healthier person, or just are curious about how much you eat per day, you should check it out.  Again, it's free.  It's like having a nutritionist following you around.  

I know this sounds like an advertisement (and perhaps it is....) but I think it's more of a celebration for me.  I was horrible about eating today, but hopefully, I'll be able to take control of this from now on. :)