Day 95 - Birthday Dinner Confession

This is pretty funny, but I think I spent nearly as much time trying to calculate the calories of everything that I ate for my Birthday Dinner as I did actually EATING it!!

I am pleased to report that I followed my plan exactly. I ate my regular breakfast and lunch, I went for a run. I was famished when I got back from run so I ate a green pepper (yes a whole green pepper) and a half a banana to tide me over, since dinner wasn't until 7pm.

At dinner, I ordered what I wanted. It was a high calorie dinner and I overate, for sure, but I don't feel bad or guilty about it because I don't consider it a "binge". Since it was a fancy restaurant, the portion sizes were pretty small. I really had to just "guess" a lot of the calories, so I could be off (who knows).

I had 3 glasses of red wine, some popcorn that they bring to the table when you sit down, a dinner roll with butter (YUM), and some seafood ceviche with about 6 plaintain chips. For my main course I had grilled guinea fowl (with skin and BBQ sauce), it came with a "potato risotto" which was sort of like a hot potato salad and steamed spinach. For dessert I had Jamaican Rum Bread Pudding with Ice Cream and caramel sauce.

I was very proud of my kids, they split an order of Rabbit Fricasse and ate it all (I didn't lie and tell them it was "chicken", either!!). I tried bites of everyone elses dinners and desserts, but I didn't log them, since I gave them bites of mine in exchange, and I figure that's probably a "wash"...

I felt really full after dinner, and I actually wasn't even hungry for breakfast this morning (but I ate it anyway)... I was also up 2lbs (but that will go away fast, I'm sure)...

Here's what it looked like... be prepared for sticker shock!!!! It's always a little surprising how fast those calories add up! And this was a fairly healthy meal in a fancy restaurant (e.g. no deep frying)...