Free lunches. Enough calories for the entire day?
Pound down from yesterday
morning on the scale which would make it a 1/2 pound lost during the 2
pound challenge. Note to self: do not eat sushi before a "weigh in"
challenge.
I'd like to discuss my lunch yesterday. I went to an industry
conference and they gave tickets for lunch there. You could pick from
several different boxed lunches including tuna fish, grilled vegetable,
chicken wrap. I chose the roast beef sandwich.
The boxed lunch literally had enough food for 2 maybe 3 people. I
understand that since it's a one size fits all, that you have to have
enough food for the men, but I have to express the need to be hyper
aware of portion control and that it's getting harder to do so, because
the portions are bigger than ever.
They gave out:
a roast beef sandwich with blue cheese, arugula and a choice of
mayo or mustard. One 1/2 was equal to more than a regular sandwich
because the bread was a HUGE french roll, both sides. I not only left
1/2 of the sandwich there, I also took off one slice of the french
bread of the sandwich I ate. I scraped off the blue cheese (who needs
all of that extra fat) and I used mustard instead of mayo (woo hoo!)
Large bag of potato chips. For some reason, I had a need to do
something I did when I was little and I stacked the potato chips on top
of the roast beef, almost like a piece of bread. I put the rest of the
chips back in the box.
1 package of chocolate chip cookies, 2. If I had eaten the whole
package, it would have been 270 calories. I wish they hadn't been there
at all because I did eat one.
A banana. I left that there.
I also opted for water out of a choice of many soft drinks and
juices which was a great accomplishment for me because I've been
choosing coke lately.
So if I had eaten the entire lunch (which tasted really good so it
was tempting) how many calories would I have eaten? I think it would
have been more than a whole days worth of food if you're on a diet.
Thoughts?