02/09/08 - Meals for the Day
The usual.
Breakfast: 265 calories, 4.5 grams fat, 44 carbs, 8 grams fiber, 15 grams protein
Now here was a challenging day. Greg had already asked if I’d go to dinner with one of his work friends and his wife this evening and had said they’d requested Smokey Bones. Now I haven’t been there in quite a few years and I didn’t remember being very fond of it. I knew that was going to work in my favor as it wouldn’t tempt me to eat their BBQ, but it would work against me in that Smokey Bones has no publicly available nutritional information.
Then his parents called and said they were coming up for the afternoon and they wanted to go to lunch.
Two meals out in one day. Ugh.
So I planned a really tough work out at the gym in the morning and begged that we go to lunch someplace where I knew exactly what I was eating.
We ended up back at TGI Friday’s where I once again ordered “Dragonfire Chicken.” Just as yummy as last time and pretty filling too.
Lunch: 500 calories, 10 grams fat, ? carbs, ? fiber, 24 grams protein
I’d been pretty light on the veggies for the day and wanted to fill up early at Smokey Bones so a salad was a must. I’d passed on the sweet cornbread they’d ordered for an appetizer as I knew I had this salad coming. Of course when I ordered it and asked what dressings they had it went something like this:
Thousand Island, French, Peppercorn Ranch, Blue Cheese, Creamy Vinnagrette, Fill with Fat Special, A side of fat for your salad, etc, etc. Finally I asked if they had oil and vinegar, which they did. Heavy on the vinegar, VERY light on the oil. Didn’t eat my tomatoes either as they didn’t look that great and it was extra calories. Since no info was available, I have to estimate based on looking foods up.
Snack: 100 calories, 2 grams fat, ? carbs, 3 gram fiber, 2 grams protein
I ended up ordering some kind of BBQ chicken special they had, but told them they could keep the cheddar cheese, bacon and onion straws that were supposed to come on top of it. (Egads! That would have doubled the calories and tripled the fat!) Ordered more steamed broccoli as my side and had them swap the garlic toast for grilled pita. When it came, I ended up scraping most of the BBQ sauce (which was this wierd chunky stuff) off and simply eating the grilled chicken. Didn’t finish the pita either as it had no taste.
The chicken was about the same size as the piece at lunch and I had about the same amount of broccoli, but I swapped the rice, mandarin oranges and pineapple chunks for two pieces of dry pita. Thus, I’m pretty darn confident this meal was well under the 500 calories at lunch. My guess?
Dinner: 350 calories, 7 grams fat, 3 grams carbs, ? grams fiber, 20 grams protein
Since dinner ended up being far less calories than I’d imagined and since I’d worked my butt off at the gym that morning, I decided I’d go ahead and have a treat. My meal came with a “half order” of freshly made cinnamon donuts with dipping suace. I had no interest in the dipping sauce, but I did eat two of the donuts. Based on their size and the fact that I’ve made donuts before, I’d guess around 200-250 calories per donut.
Dessert: 500ish calories, ? grams fat, ? grams carbs, ? grams fiber, ? grams protein
Exercise
I planned ahead to spend a good amount of time at the gym today. I knew I was going to have to head to dinner with space to eat a lot of calories, just in case I couldn’t find something healthy on the menu. In fact, I burned 600+ calories at the gym. I spend nearly 40 minutes on the Elliptical doing some cross training for 425 calories, then I logged another 120 over 15 minutes on the treadmill at 8% incline. Then I added in some good stretching and a round of weight training to bring me up to at least 600 calories.
In fact, if you count breakfast and dinner and subtract my work out, I went into dinner having only consumed a net 165 calories for the day. That meant I could pretty much eat up to 900 or even 1000 calories at dinner and still be pretty close to the zone I aim for.
Daily Total: 1715ish calories, ? grams fat, ? grams carbs, ? grams fiber, ? grams protein
Knock off the 600 calories and figure that I estimated the dinner calories on the high side and I was easily in my 1000-1200 calorie zone for the day. Possibly a little higher than I would have liked, but not bad for a day with two meals out.
