The Doctor Weighs In

Two tablespoons of peanut butter with jelly on toastI write in my daily food log that I had "some peanut butter and jelly on one slice of whole wheat toast."

You think:  2 tablespoons of peanut butter and a little (say a tablespoon of jelly).  That's 90 calories for the whole wheat bread, 200 calories for the peanut butter (maybe I should cut it down to a tablespoon), and 50 calories for the jelly.  340 calories.  Well, if that's all you had for breakfast, not too bad (but not too good, either).

Here it is with four tbs of peanut butter!But what you don't know is I slathered the bread with 4 tablespoons of peanut butter and topped it with 2 of jelly for a whopping 590 calories-- half of a day's calories allowed on a 1200 calories weight loss diet.

Then, I complain, it doesn't matter what I eat, I just can't seem to lose weight. 

Uh, oh, you caught me in another portion lie.