The Attack of Eating Out!

Phew.... I made it through Tuesday night dinner out without completely blowing my diet!

Although I did do significant damage:  2607 calories intake, 350 calories burned in bootcamp.

It is always so tricky tracking calories when you eat out - especially when you are eating more family style.

My husband, myself,  his sisters and their families (8 of us in total) all got together to try a new family owned restaurant that was featured in "You Gotta Eat Here!" a Canadian version of the popular Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

Well, it was fabulous.  We all ordered different things and all shared.   How do you track when you have a mouthful of this, a spoonful of that, random pieces of calamari, and bites of garlic bread?  All those little bites add up though so you can't discount them.

It helps that a significant portion of the meal was the most amazing pizza.  That is easier to track.  The rest I did by entering the food and then reducing the portion size to around 1/4 cup.  That is probably close enough!

Yesterday was tough on me for food.  I wanted to over-indulge all day long since I knew I'd be killing my calorie intake by going out to eat.  If I would have had a box of girl guide cookies in my car, I probably would have eaten half of them on the drive home with zero guilt.  As it was I indulged in chocolate covered macadamia nuts instead.

I tried to moderate though.  I left the restaurant feeling satisfied, but not overly full.  I resisted the bubble tea everyone, but my husband and I, had after dinner.  I didn't feel stuffed when I came home from the restaurant and then resisted until just before bedtime to have a mini-cheesecake leftover from Sunday. 

I also didn't have my typical 90 calories of chocolate before bed. 

But I also didn't get a great workout in, not nearly enough cardio, and gave myself permission to not care while eating out.  So it was a hit and miss day.  Food was ok, exercise was adequate, but I was in a great mood since I wasn't stressing over what I was going to eat AND my husband didn't comment on one thing I had or didn't have!!

I think I gave my husband a bad rap in on of my latest posts.  He is trying to hard to be supportive.  I came home Monday night to a wonderfully  prepared healthy meal (grilled chicken, asparagus, and half a pretzel bun).  We were going to have it for dinner but he failed and we ended up going out for dinner (vietnamese-style chicken curry for me, with minimal rice, still stayed in calorie goal) and I took the planned dinner for lunch yesterday.   And he didn't comment at all on what I'm eating.  He is trying so hard.

Question:  Does anyone else have a spouse that wants to help but doesn't know how?  What do you tell them?  How do they support you even if they themselves don't need to loose weight?


As a side note, to keep myself transparent and accountable, I'll be posting my daily calorie intake and exercise burn from MyFitnessPal.com for the next 2 weeks.  (p.s. If you're also on MyFitnessPal and want to be friends, my username is Crislen)

Here is Monday, May 1st:
  *You've earned 350 extra calories from exercise today 

Totals	2,607	256	114	154	24	3,477
Your Daily Goal	1,710	235	56	64	20	2,500
Remaining	-897	-21	-58	-90	-4	-977
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Fiber	Sodium