So yesterday was Friday and the first of the three regular going out nights of the week. It wasn't too bad. Drinking Diet Coke isn't my favorite option, but it's okay to get caffeine that late when I am planning to stay up until at least 3am.
In case you didn't know it Applebees is almost literally the worst place on Earth to eat. They refuse, actually refuse, to release nutritional information unless required by law to do so. You might have to sue the corporation to find out what you are eating. What information you can gleam from other sources leads you to believe they have good reasons to hide the truly deadly combinations of calories and fats that they perpetrate as a menu. I will say they do have a Weight Watchers points guides for some items, but that is it. The place is just terrible for someone on a diet. That said, their effing food can taste pretty damn good and you can minimize the damage if you are willing to work it. I didn't but I stayed away from fried foods and added a salad that had bacon, cheese and croutons on it. I removed the croutons myself. I got the Margherita chicken that included steamed vegetables (good) and mashed potatoes that had some kind of ham or bacon on top of it (bad). The chicken was topped with mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese and some tomatoes.
Going backwards, I polished off the pasta from Tuesday with some high caffeine Voltage. I needed the bridge from lunch at noon to the dinner at 11pm. I did skip the bread and the sugary dessert at least.
Lunch was also terrible, the so called Fresco menu at Taco Bell didn't work out for me as I wasn't familiar that they were the exact same as items already on the menu and you had to say the secret password "Fresco" to get the slightly lower calorie option. Secondly, my other big problem at lunch. I order way more food than I need, but never more than I can eat. To be fair I rarely run into the pile of food I cannot finish so the onus is on me to control my eating by under ordering. So that was just me being a poor steward to my own best interests.
Breakfast was a breeze, but now I am done with the old breakfast bars and will be looking for other and more varied food options for my morning meals.
It was a bad day in reality and I was late getting up this morning and I walked and drank some OJ before the big weigh in. I was down .2 pounds! Down! After the ridiculously huge amount of food I ate on Friday I could not have been more happy with these results.
I left the afternoon Healthe Trim pills at work. They were just the multi-vitamins and not the key thermo-energy pills that should boost metabolism so I will be alright.
Taking pictures of my food in front people was a little strange, luckily they were very supportive.
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