I made a bad choice for lunch today. A friend wanted to walk over to the mall, and I gleefully tagged along. I wanted to hit the food court to get something to eat...and today that meant getting Popeye's. Honestly, if I'd thought about how unhealthy it was I would have talked my way out of it. Instead I kind of said to myself, "hey chicken's healthy right?" So the next thing I knew I was ordering a 3 piece combo meal. It was just a little too much food. The chicken wasn't too bad, except for the quantity. But the fries and biscuit both had more calories than I'd like. By the time I finished I was feeling a little guilty about it (but it was tasty).
I first had to defeat a temptation to "lie" about how unhealthy it was. Entering it into the tracker on the phone, it would have been easy to simply not count some of the meal. But while that would gain me some points here, I'd just be lying to myself. The next step was to figure out what I had in the house that I could eat that would be lower in calories, and then stick to that. I couldn't let what happened on Saturday happen again. In the end I ran over a bit, but not terribly so. As long as I get back on the bike tomorrow and Saturday I should be fine. I just have to get past the bad choice, and not let it turn into a bad habit.
Food today: a cup of pancake batter for breakfast (330 calories), lunch was the Popeye's meal (1330 calories), dinner was a cup and a half of pancake batter (520 calories).
Exercise today: 20,000 steps, but nothing to count for points.
Totals
Food eaten: 2180
Calories Burned: 0
Daily Points: 820
Weekly Points: 5673
Total earned: 53410
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