I Say, What About Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

— Deep Blue Something.

For breakfast this morning, I consumed:

16 Reduced Fat Wheat Thins

2 tablespoons of homemade sundried tomato hummus

1/2 cup cottage cheese, 2% milkfat

1 tablespoon of strawberry jam

4 fresh strawberries

2 glasses of water

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STUDENTS: Your first Secondary assignment will be to calculate the amount of calories consumed for this breakfast this given day. Use FitWatch to search for these foods and track down the listed calories.

Follow proper Secondary format (+1), provide correct answers (+1), cite appropriate source(s) (+1), answer these two questions in complete sentences (+2):

A. In your opinion, is a calorie counter helpful? Give at least one reason for your statement.

B. Google search “calories burned during exercise.” Choose one type of exercise and a given duration that would burn the calories consumed during this breakfast.

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Here’s my pathetic attempt to take back the figure I was so proud of earlier this year. Although my summer has been productive, fun, and generally awesome, my waistline definitely suffered as a result. Le sigh. Time to work out now.