About Last Night

Yesterday I went way over my daily calorie goal, consuming 2900 calories versus my target of 1900.  The worst part was that I had  had a great workout earlier in the day that I felt really good about.  Even though the exercise had given me 500 extra calories to work with, I still blew threw them and added an extra 500 I did not need.  How did it happen?  Unfortunately, quite easily.  Both kids had somewhere to be, so my wife and I went to a nice restaurant near our house.  In general, the restaurant serves smaller portions, but the food is very rich.  We split a bowl of soup, a three cheese plate (with bread), two orders of fried oysters served in a sauce, and a large salad with lots of dressing.  I topped it off with a couple of glasses of wine and combined with what I had eaten earlier in the day – 2900 calories.  It was a nice date with my wife, but I am sorry I negated the positive benefits of my workout.  One positive was My Fitness Pal.  By calculating my daily total it provided fairly immediate feedback that I had gone out of bounds for the and need to adjust course.  Before, I might not have thought twice about that level of eating and turned around and done it again the next day and maybe the next. 

Consumption:

Cheerios and bran chex cereal with milk
2 Apples
Chicken sausage
Salad with oil and vinegar dressing
10 almonds
7 pita chips with hummus
8 black olives
Flank steak with kale
Pasta with blue cheese dressing
Blue cheese
2 glasses of wine
1 piece of bread

Exercise:

25 minutes on a stationary bike

10 minutes of rowing machine

10 minutes of weight lifting

My Fitness Pal calculated the exercise was worth 400 calories and so I was inside