Panera=salt+fat
Got up this am 1 1/2 lbs. heavier and I knew I felt puffy…..since I ate at Panera yesterday late afternoon, I looked up my supposedly healthy meal: lo fat chicken noodle soup and a Greek salad….hmmmm, sky high in sodium and 24gms of fat in the Greek salad!!!!! Probably the healthiest thing I ate was the baked potato chips!!!!!! I am so bummed—this is what I’ve been ordering there every time we go thinking I was eating soooo healthy. How stupid I feel. Again.
Anyway, gym today: stretch and exercise mat, weight machines, 2.45 on tm at small incline
Food: bfsk: oatmeal w/skim, V8, tea w/skim…………lunch: hot and sour soup, salad w tomatoes,/ balsamic vinegar dsg., butter beans, haddock…………dinner: stuffed pepper, 1/2 large pear, 4 strawberries……a few almonds for snack
See ya’ll later, chickadees
February 6th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Oh, YEAH. That’s definitely one of those “been there, done that” capers! When I first started seriously addressing my weight problem (LOL…I sound like a WW lecturer!!!) I was up in No. Adams, Mass, which you wouldn’t know because you don’t live in this area, but it’s a good two-hour drive from my house. I had a meeting up there, and got out of the meeting at 1:00 in the afternoon, hadn’t eaten any breakfast, and was ravenous, so I stopped at a pub-style restaurant and perused the menu hoping to find something (not -salad; I am SO not a fan of salad, unfortunately) and ended up with, of all things, a chicken quesadilla. Well, the bread part is thin, and I was figuring thin bread would = low calories. Oh, right. I nearly fell through the floor when I got home, went to that restaurant’s website and discovered that I’d just gulped down about a THOUSAND calories in one sitting! I am awfully impressed, though, with your HALF a pear, and FOUR strawberries and a FEW almonds. Tsk. If it were me, I could never eat just a half of a pear, nor could I stop at 4 strawberries or a few almonds. Okay, this is getting long, but I just wanted to say, too, that the additional calories/sodium/fat at Panera every so often may actually be working in your favor by speeding up your metabolism. That’s the premise of the WW “Wendy” plan, where you alternate between low and high days to keep your body guessing.
Tah for now,
Z
February 6th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
The fleas of a thousand camels? Ok, now that’s just gross!