Ice cream cake and pizza (don't forget the beer!) are good diet foods....

Ice cream cake and pizza (don't forget the beer!) are good diet foods....		diyeana
		May 11 2008 15:02
OK maybe not. But they help to demonstrate a good point. :) Unfortunately I'm verbose, so it's a novel... I weigh every day because I'm fascinated by how I go up and down in weight. Plus, because of water retention and other factors, I would hate it if I weigh only one day a week and that happens to be the day my weight fluctuated UP. Yesterday ... I weighed and was up to 162.5 (from 161.5 the day before). No big deal. But then it was an oink-fest day. I ate a good breakfast, but then I had to do the mother's day celebration with my grandma. I made bbq chicken breasts, potato salad & coleslaw. I ate a bunch of the potato salad, it turned out so good! But that wasn't my downfall. I brought an ice cream cake. Oh yes. A 9" round delicious delight with white sponge cake and cherry jubilee icecream (my grandma's favorite). I had 1/8 of the cake. Now Baskin Robbin's website says that a "serving" is 430 calories. However, I'd bet that's for 1/10 or 1/12 of the cake. They don't say how many slices you get out of each one. Plus that cake is supposed to feed "12-14". Just a few hours after that I met friends at Rusted Sun Pizza. They do thin crust pizza which is nice. We had a blue cheese chicken pizza. It's just olive oil, chicken, blue cheese, onions and red bell peppers. I had two HUGE pieces of that. (1/4 of a 16" pizza) And a 20 ounce hefeweizen. I figure I took in anywhere between 2500-3000 calories depending on the calorie content of my cake (I logged 430) and pizza (no idea...). Along with the other foods I ate in the morning & evening. I don't even want to touch the amount of sodium, saturated fat, cholesterol, etc. I burned approximately 2100 yesterday (I went on a 5k walk in the morning and then some....) THIS MORNING'S WEIGH IN:160.5. THE MORAL OF THE STORY: One day will not mess up your diet.

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#21	augette	May 13 2008 11:08
At least once some weeks 2-3 times, I have a "splurge" meal/snack. It's all about control. I've lost around 30 lbs eating out 2-3 times a week and I'm not eating salads and chicken all the time either LOL. I do really well during the day - breakfast & lunch - but after a stressful day it is so easy to give in and eat out. It's been a slow loss only .5 lb a week or so but just restraining myself most of the time and exercising most days helps keep me on track. It also keeps me motivated knowing that I can lose weight while still enjoying life and not having to change my lifestyle too significantly. I know I can still go out with family & friends and it won't derail me completely.
#22	abunaimah	May 13 2008 14:56
Actually I love the reaction of people who know your on a diet and you eat freely - whatever you want. Because you know you can recover from it. I have several ways of dealing with days I know that are coming up that may be heavy food days. I eat little the rest of the time, trying to stay under my limit. Days that are unplanned, well - like you say one day doesn't make a difference. Just go into recovery mode. Last saturday I ate lunch at Nandos (they do grilled chicken - very nice) and then we went to the park with the kids and indulged in some ice cream, later we visited my parents and we had some cup cakes baked by my sister (I have no idea how many calories that lot came too!) and also scoffed a chocolate doughnut. Since my sister in law cooked some more nice chicken I also had dinner at my parents place. Lovely - blew my days quota but nice. Now I'm in recovery mode :)
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