05/19/2009 16:27
Blizzards are not my friend
My food intake was terrific yesterday, until I found myself face-to-face with temptation.
It all began with a very boring accounting class. My prof couldn't make the class so he video taped an earlier class he was present for, and had a student show that tape to our class. It was the very first night of class (not a good first impression). Needless to say I was bored out of my mind and my a.d.d. kicked in about 2 minutes into the 3 hour class.
To brighten my evening, on my way home I had the munchies (not really - I just needed some sort of consolation for sitting through such a terrifyingly boring class). So I quickly pulled into the nearest drive-thru! This is awful, I know! Especially since I had been doing so well with staying away from the fast food.
I ordered a small Dairy Queen blizzard. I was thinking to myself, good girl, go with the small, it won't be so bad. Well, of course, when I order blindly (without looking at nutrition value) I tend to get into trouble.
Had I not eaten the small blizzard, I would have consumed 1,498 calories. After the blizzard, my total was 2,218! One bad decision really screwed up a day's worth of good work.
I'm not beating myself up over it, but I think its important to use this as a learning lesson. Its not worth working hard all day, to just ruin it at the end of the day with a bad decision. I must keep the momentum up all day! I would have even done better just to eat half of the blizzard, as opposed to the entire thing. Perhaps if I had educated myself on how many cals the blizzard was, I would have either foregone the "treat" all together, or atleast ate only half. The blizzard was 720 cals, not to mention 105 CARBS!!!!!
Anyway, here's to a better day. I've really been re-acquainting myself with EP and I'm falling in love with it all over again! The food log seems to be new and improved and I really am loving it!