Breakfast - 2 cups Special K red berries, w/1 cup milk: 340 cal.
Lunch - Wendy's spring mix salad: 410 cal.
A little aside about the salad...it irritates me that the Wendy's nutritional information does not include dressings or extra toppings. I get that these are optional, but how many people don't use them if offered? And they also don't provide nutritional information for the extras on the default page. So yeah--they report the salad's 180 calories (most of which because of the cheese), which seems pretty good. But the dressing packet is 220 calories and the pecans are 130. So if you were to eat the salad complete with everything, it actually runs about 530. Not as calorie conscious as it first appears. As I ate it, with 1/3 - 1/2 dressing and giving the pecans the benefit of the doubt (no nutritional info on the packet, looked it up when I got home), it was about 400.
sometime this afternoon - 1 chicken breast, skinless grilled: 140 cal.
About 6 pm, I realized that unless I restructured the plan, this 1000 calorie thing is just not going to work. I'm going to go for it the rest of this week, but after that the target will be going up to 1200. Reading of later chapters in my reference book give variances of the recommended 1000 calorie allowance. So I'm still going to be testing metabolism for these first 28 days (see comment on my previous post)...the calculations will just be slightly more complicated.
Dinner: Lean Cuisine frozen dinner, 270 cal.
Daily total: 340 + 400 + 140 + 270 = 1150 Not too bad for the first day, huh?