I lost about 1.5 pounds when I would normally lose about 2.5 pounds. The 1-pound difference means I consumed about 3500 more calories this week than I should have.
That works out to about 24 of these:
Yeah, I've been eating a lot of these yogurt cups (150 calories). Not just the strawberry one pictured here, either, but also the Strawberry Banana, Blueberry, Cherry, and Peach. 24 cups in a week is only a little more than 3 per day. I've been having them for breakfast as well as for a late-night snack, and sometimes as a mid-day snack. Sometimes I eat the Light variety, which only has 90 calories, but often I have a lot more than just 3 in a day, although usually the yogurts displace something else I would have eaten. All in all, 500 calories per day (a little more than 3 yogurt cups) doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.
To make matters even worse, yogurt is high in fruity carbohydrates, so they probably have been generating a blood sugar spike and crash that leaves me hungry for other things.
I like these yogurt cups a lot, and I thought I could control myself, but I think I may have to cut them out completely. Maybe I can cut back to 1 or 2 a day. If I have them in the evening, the blood sugar crash won't occur until I'm asleep, when it's kind of hard to snack.
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