Processed crap just makes you want more processed crap!
Well the anniversary dinner is over and I thought I could just jump right back on plan. I always tell myself I should be able to eat the occasional meal off plan and then just get right back on track afterwards. And in theory, it's true, I should be able to do that. But in reality, that's not how it works. Last night we went out for our anniversary, and we had a $100 gift certificate to use. Sounds like a lot, but this is one of the fancier restaurants in town so it isn't too hard to spend that much even with just the two of us. I had chosen my meal by viewing their menu online first and I'd entered those nutritional guesstimates into SparkPeople ahead of time, so it was looking like I'd maybe be at about 1800 calories for the day rather than my usual 1550. Not too bad, right? Only when we got there of course hubby was determined to spend the entire gift certificate, so of course we had a loaf of hot bread brought out to us first with flavoured dipping oils. I didn't care for the flavours so I really only ate the bread, but it was really GOOD bread, one of my weaknesses, so we each ate half of it. I hadn't planned for that. Read more ...