I’m sad to report that yesterday I was sick. I don’t know what caused it, but I woke up feeling nauseated, and that feeling didn’t leave me all day long.

I didn’t eat much all day: A little cereal, some yogurt, a few bowls of light soup. Since I wasn’t eating nearly as many calories as I usually do, I decided to splurge on the “good” crackers with my soup (not the wheat-thin like Special K crackers that I usually have). These would be the Butter Toasteds from Keebler. I love them. Unfortunately, there are 80 calories in just 5 crackers. I keep them around because I’m usually able to restrain myself to just 5, which I’ll have with a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese for a lite snack.

Not yesterday, though.

Since I was splurging on a low-calorie day, and figured that crackers would be good for my upset stomach, I brought out the entire package (half a box), rather than my typical 5. By the end of the night, I had eaten the entire thing.

I ate 560 calories worth of crackers yesterday. FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY CALORIES WORTH OF CRACKERS! That’s absurd.

Had I done the math in advance, I probably would have limited myself to half the package and been ok with the 280. But no. I wasn’t feeling well and I wanted crackers, gosh darnit!

Since I didn’t eat a whole lot of anything else this wasn’t a huge deal, but on a normal day, this would have been detrimental to my weight-loss efforts.

I’m telling you: Crackers are evil. Beware.

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