my free day and the ritz, st patty's day and off program
I didn't blog yesterday because it was my 'free day'. My mom and dad stayed over at the Ritz Carlton on saturday for my dad's 50th birthday and then my brothers and I (plus our significant others of course), my uncle, and my grandma all went and surprised him on sunday for brunch. OMG everything was just decadent and the dining room was beautiful and peaceful and just elegant and extravagent all in one lol. I could really get use to living that life.... hopefully someday I will be so lucky lol.
Anyways, so today was St. Patrick's Day. I went into the day having a plan. Most of you all know that I am a vegetarian (well, semi-vegetarian since I eat seafood) BUT i make exception for holidays... and well, today was a holiday so I had a lot of temptations. I was planning on still doing my 6 meals, one of which was going to be a little piece of corned beef (it's so fatty i cant even believe it), 2 potatoes and a carrot. I started to feel a little weary when we were all sitting with the appitizers and I had 2 crackers with spinach dip on them. Usually at this point though I would say "Ok, you already screwed up, you might as well eat more!" but I didn't. After everything I ate I said, "Ok, I ate it, there is nothing I can do about it, I enjoyed it, just don't eat anymore". Sometimes I ate more, but most of the time I didn't.
I definitely went off program with the eating, but after all of it, I can honestly say that I enjoyed every bite of it, stayed aware of what I was eating and how much of it I was eating (so I could write it all down and figure out the calories later), and I was definitely full but not uncomfortably stuffed (which I am known to do to myself on holidays...... which is not good at all).
I figured out all of my calories, which was by no means 'good, but then I compared them to what and how much I ate last year and I must have saved AT LEAST 600 or 700 calories just in that meal alone. So I am very glad that I did not just say "fuck it, whatever, i already blew it" because I tried to make more good choices then bad ones and it ended up not to be as bad as expected.
M1(190): sugar free oatmeal and 1/2 c. cottage cheese. M2(180): chocolate protein shake. M3(260): 1 piece whole wheat bread, 1 piece lowfat cheese, condiments and veggies. M4 (160): strawberries, 1 scoop whey powder, and 1/2 banana. M5 and M6(appitizer, dinner, and dessert, about 1010 calories): 2 crackers w/ spinach dip, corned beef, 2 small pieces soda bread w/ butter, 1 carrot, 2 yukon gold potatoes, part of ryan's creme de minthe and vanilla ice cream milkshake.
Total: about 1890 calories
Workout: 45 minutes weight lifting upper body, walk/jog (2.5miles, 35minutes, 300calories burned)