We go out to eat a lot.
I was out today for dinner at a very nice place in Fort Wayne. I took a group of people who live at Timbercrest as part of our annual "City of Churches" tour. (Fort Wayne fancies itself as "The City of Churches," which is fairly well deserved because they have some pretty fancy Churches. :-)
Restaurants are the bane of losing weight. As one writer put it once, "fast food equals fat people."
But I can't help it. I love to eat out. So, I need to learn to make the right choices when I go out.
Applying the principles of "The Plan," here's what I did eating out today:
1) Writing everything down: I'll do that at the end of this entry.
2) Go protein heavy: I had lean beef, a reasonable portion.
3) More good carbs: While I did have two bread sticks, I also loaded up on good carbs: spinach and a mixed green salad.
4) Be aware of problem times: The point of this entry is that going out to eat is one of my problem times.
5) Daily exercise: I knew that I'd have to be at work early to get things ready for the trip, so I made sure I went to bed in time to get a good night's sleep and still get up early enough for my walk-jog.
A word about the exercise. It was densely foggy again this morning and would have been dangerous to get out in the country in the pre-dawn dark. I walk-jogged in town. As it turns out I went 2.1 miles (I measured before I drove to work). I also only walked about half a mile - the first 2/10, the last 2/10, and about a block and a half in the middle.
Here's today's journal:
Weight: 238.0 - down 4/10 from yesterday :-)
Breakfast: Two slices of whole wheat toast with peanut butter
Snack: No snack (!)
Dinner: Two bread sticks, mixed green salad with 1T dressing, spinach, 1/2 c. mashed potatoes, about 3 oz. lean beef, brown gravy
Snack: No snack (!!)
Supper: Cottage cheese with a whole tomato, tuna salad and Wheat Thins, a SoBe water
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