Bagels and lox

After the great bagel debacle of 2010...I was under the impression that this was not something I would do less that three weeks after having surgery...here are my conclusions:

1. It was delicious
2. While I ate the whole thing, scooped out, to be fair, but still the whole thing.
3. I was quite full, almost uncomfortably but nothing painful. HOWEVER! I would have been just as satisfied with eating half of the bagel, and I need to learn to do something like that.
4. I need to learn calories. Since I have only ever had success on low-carb diets, I don't have a good idea of how many calories are in different foods. So, bagels and lox...here is a great link that talks about it, and some excerpts below

Supermarket bagels are smaller and, as a result, typically lower in calories. A Lender's plain bagel has 160 calories, but it's only 2 ounces, whereas typical coffeehouse and bagel store bagels are about 4 ounces. A plain Dunkin' Donuts bagel with nothing on it is 330 calories; an Einstein Bros. plain bagel is 260 calories; and a Starbucks plain bagel is 300 calories. And at non-chain bagel stores, all bets are off. Those bagels often weigh up to 6 ounces, which means they probably have 480 to 500 calories to start with, and that's not counting the more generous amounts of high-calorie toppings.

 My bagel was probably on the larger side, but I did scoop it out, so I am going to go with 250 calories.
1 tablespoon of cream cheese is 50 calories. Let's say 4 tablespoons for 200 calories.
Lox or Nova Scotia salmon (3 ounces is 100 calories)and I think there was a bit more there, so give it 150

That's a total of 500 calories...that doesn't seem quite so bad...and if I had managed to split it with BF or just leave half for later, that would be totally doable!

The upshot was that I stayed super full for a long time. I ate around 1pm, had a Jello sugar free pudding for a snack at 5pm which I was craving, but not at all hungry for, ditto the cheese I nibbled at 7.30 pm, and had my dinner at 8.30 - a small serving of sauteed spinach with a dash of cream and Parmesan cheese and a piece of sole wrapped around crabmeat with a little white wine and yogurt. I left half the fish and some of the spinach. I did have an orange and another sliver of cheese around 10 pm.

Today I had a boiled egg for breakfast and a sliver of cheese, 120 calories, and at noon I ate a fillet of salmon broiled with Soy-Vay teriyaki sauce 350 calories, and Jello sugar free pudding for 70 calories. Soy-Vay is super delicious and I highly recommend it! It's available at Trader Joe's and a lot of other markets. Funny enough, I weighed in at 258 today, half a lbs less than yesterday...

Met a friend at two, sipped some water, and decided to get a veggie tempeh reuben with one slice of swiss cheese. Ate one half at three pm, and just ate the other half at seven pm. Based on the Daily Plate, that seems to be about 500 calories, spread between two meals, so total is  1040...I get a snack later tonight and stay at 1200 calories! Yay, me! Oh, wait, had a drinkable yogurt for 90 calories, so snack gets smaller...I will be ok with an orange, I think!