So last night was pretty good. Haven’t been in the best mood lately, but I am powering through it. Our friend ended up not coming to town but we ended up going to Zozo’s for dinner anyway, it’s really good. We got there in time for the Sunset dinner which is around $10-15 a plate and comes with wine and dessert. I chose the pork medallions with rosemary roasted garlic sauce which they say is lower calorie. When I asked the waitress how low is low? She told me she couldn’t give me a number, but it was really high. So I was nervous. I had exercised, but wasn’t planning to cheat! So I had to police myself. That meant I drank ½ of my 8oz of Chianti, all of my house salad, balsamic on the side, no bread (so not worth the calories) only 2 of my 5 pork medallions, ½ cup of the mashed potatoes, and all of my steamed and buttered veggies. I brought home lots of leftover mashed potatoes and pork. When I estimated the calorie cost of dinner later that night, it wasn’t that bad, 662 including wine (I gave my ice cream to “P”). The medallions are perfect sandwich size so I am thinking sandos for dinner tonight, maybe with pasta sauce and mozzarella? We’ll see.
So we headed out at 9am this morning to hit the mall for some walking. I walked the loop twice, then most of the way a third time until we hit the play area. This is where the kids got a well deserved play time. (They are such troopers as I walk the mall). I then browsed the mall, ended up with a super cute fedora hat with bling at The Icing for $2. I used my app “imapmyrun” and clocked in almost 2 ½ miles at 4 mph. Burned 236 calories, but “imapmyrun” thought it was more.
Then we headed to Whole Foods for a Pretzel Making class with the Rugrats and some preschool moms. The cost was $5 per kid for a pretzel with either sugar or salt and they even got to color their own reusable grocery bags! Super fun! Then “F” and her kids and “T” and her kids and the three of us hit the salad bar (I brought the kids PB&J’s) and had a nice lunch together. Again I had to try to make healthy choices without knowing calories. I ended up with a small spring mix salad loaded with veggies, beets, balsamic vinaigrette and a hardboiled egg and put it into a pita. The pita was the gamble, but when I entered it into MFP, lunch was only 237 calories, I did a good job!
Then “F” and the kids and I walked across the street to browse the Goodwill (found some cute dress up clothes for “P” and some cute shoes and a beanie for “V”), while “T” went grocery shopping at Whole Foods. It was nice to get a little time with the girls. Now I am going to force myself to veg on the couch and watch some Netflix while the kids are down. Have a great day!
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