I went out to lunch today for a work thing. I didn't eat all the food-no one could there was way too much food in the portions. Everyone was getting to go boxes except me. I by a rule do not bring left overs into my home. Resturant food is almost always, well okay always, higher cal and lower nutrition than I would normally make for myself. If I bring it home I will eat it. Then I haven't splurged on one meal I have splurged on 2. I don't go out to eat often but when I do it is always off plan. I eat about 1200 cal a day and I'm sorry but there is no way I can go out, except for Subway which I do not really count as a resturant, and stay within my cal without starving myself the rest of the day. My coworkers thaught it was wasteful. One brought up starving childeren-like I'm going to somehow prevent childhood hunger by eating the 2nd half of my meal-no donation place is going to take your leftovers off your plate.
My thaughts about going out to eat have changed a lot. I used to love it and order whever looked good and the biggest portion. I think eating out has always been a treat for me. We hardly ever ate out when I was a kid so I wanted it to be good and big. As I grew up and was eating out more somehow I didn't care about quality so much I just wanted a big amount to eat of rich food. This led to horrible choices and a mind set I still see myself fighting, and losing, when I go out to eat or order take out.
For Now I scope out the website and nutrition info of the place I am going and game plan ahead of time. I hate when a place does not have nutritional info online-almost all chains do and almost no cool or independent places do. I find I get stressed if something changes my game plan like my friends just want to split a bunch of appetizers and I have no idea what I am eating. Also, I still haven't figured out how to stop myself from picking at the food when I have eaten enough. I have a long way to go but everyday is practice.
How do you handle eating out? Do you track what you eat when you eat out or just have an "off" meal like me?
When I eat out I exercise to "buy" more calories on my budget, and then eat very low cal earlier that day.. Tracking it doesn't make much sense because I don't know what's in it anyway. I just try to pick sensibly and see how it goes. ;)
ReplyDeleteThis is so me! Totally. I am not ending hunger by eating...I am adding to the obesity epidemic! Love it!
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