To ATL and Back

All I can say is that was a lot of timing seated in a car!!!

But I did REALLY well and didn’t snack all day! I’m too tired/busy for a full report, but here’s a photo recap (yes, I snuck in my camera and very discretely took photos of everything!)

Appetizer was a fried green tomato topped with goat cheese and spiced pecans. I REALLY wanted another but I resisted!!!

NOT PICTURED: A huge basket of biscuits, hot from the oven, that I totally did NOT have!!!!! GO ME!!!

Salad course was a wedge of iceburg (this was pre-set) with blue cheese, tomato and bacon. I had all the lettuce and tomato, 1/2 piece of bacon equiv. and about 1 tbsp of the dressing (fork dipped in)

Entree was pan-fried trout with mashed potatoes and buttered green beans. I ate all of the fish, about 3 bites of the potatoes and all of the beans. And I didn’t touch the garlic sauce. (Other menu choices were burger, pulled pork or turkey sandwich, so this was the best choice) The beans were buttered, but they were still healthy and I don’t think there was TONS of butter.

Fish opened:

Dessert was a mug of homemade health bar icecream (MY FAVORITE!!!) topped with a freshly made cookie. The cookies were all different flavors and I got my least favorite – perhaps the only kind of cookie I’ll pass up: peanut butter. I ate about 30% of it. I started out with only 20% or so and then nibbled because it sat in front of me! I ate all the icecream because it was melty and totally worth it.

Leftover cookie:

Lunch calorie estimate: ~710 (I had guessed 650, but after logging it into Calorie King it appears to be more. That is if I’m not underestimating the butter/oil involved in the fish)

For dinner we had frozen butternut squash ravioli (220 calories for 9 of them – and quite delicious!) over sauteed kale, bacon and acorn squash with a little brown sugar. It was DIVINE! But for some reason I wasn’t hungry (I think because I have a mild cold) so I only had 6 of the ravoili.

Dinner calories: ~260 (wow, that’s low).

Then we went for a 30-minute walk in the dark. At least I got a little exercise! -110 calories.

Total calories today: ~1450. Would have been better without the ice cream!