What I did last night
OH MY GOSH!!! Last night I commited diet suicide!
Someone hit a fire hydrant near our apartment building yesterday afternoon so we didn't have any water last night until about 10:30pm. And since our pantry was really still very bare due to our vacation absence, Ethan and I went out for dinner while Dada went to a church meeting. Well...
We'd gotten these gift certificates for Carl's Jr. in our Christmas Stockings this year, so I decided to go ahead and eat there even though I had been boycotting them since they started their "men are morons" commercial campaign. NOT a good decision! When I got there I quickly located their poster size nutrition menus on the wall (one for the original CJ and one for the Green Burrito which they now serve as well). I was completely floored by the grams of fat in EVERYTHING on the menu! The lowest thing I remember seeing on there was 32g of fat!
Ordinarily I probably could have navigated my way through the choices and by subtracting things like sauce and cheese, ended up with an acceptable meal option.
Ordinarily.
Last night, however, I was EXHAUSTED and STARVING and the guy at the counter was having a hard time understanding my English (when I said sauce, he thought I said salsa) and I wasn't doing so well figuring out his thick accent. So, just wanting to finish my order and be done with it, I picked something at random that SOUNDED like it would be reasonably healthy and ordered that and a kid's chicken meal for Ethan (I think it was his first real fast food meal).
What did I order? A "Grilled Chicken Burrito Plate" without the soda. GRILLED Chicken! Yes, it's a burrito, but how bad could it be??? Well folks... BAD!! REALLY BAD!!!
My only consolation is that due to the shockingly enormous size of the burrito, I only ate half of it, and then I spent nearly an hour crawling up and through and around and down inside the tunnels of one of those playground things with Ethan. That helps. A very little. *groan*
Just to give you an idea... we're talking 43g of fat and over 2000g of sodium in just the portion I ate! Ugh. I am sick just thinking about it!
Well, I suppose there's nothing that can be done for it now. What's done is done and there's no going back. I'll just have to be WAY more careful for the next week if I have any hope of making my goal. *sigh*
Someone hit a fire hydrant near our apartment building yesterday afternoon so we didn't have any water last night until about 10:30pm. And since our pantry was really still very bare due to our vacation absence, Ethan and I went out for dinner while Dada went to a church meeting. Well...
We'd gotten these gift certificates for Carl's Jr. in our Christmas Stockings this year, so I decided to go ahead and eat there even though I had been boycotting them since they started their "men are morons" commercial campaign. NOT a good decision! When I got there I quickly located their poster size nutrition menus on the wall (one for the original CJ and one for the Green Burrito which they now serve as well). I was completely floored by the grams of fat in EVERYTHING on the menu! The lowest thing I remember seeing on there was 32g of fat!
Ordinarily I probably could have navigated my way through the choices and by subtracting things like sauce and cheese, ended up with an acceptable meal option.
Ordinarily.
Last night, however, I was EXHAUSTED and STARVING and the guy at the counter was having a hard time understanding my English (when I said sauce, he thought I said salsa) and I wasn't doing so well figuring out his thick accent. So, just wanting to finish my order and be done with it, I picked something at random that SOUNDED like it would be reasonably healthy and ordered that and a kid's chicken meal for Ethan (I think it was his first real fast food meal).
What did I order? A "Grilled Chicken Burrito Plate" without the soda. GRILLED Chicken! Yes, it's a burrito, but how bad could it be??? Well folks... BAD!! REALLY BAD!!!
My only consolation is that due to the shockingly enormous size of the burrito, I only ate half of it, and then I spent nearly an hour crawling up and through and around and down inside the tunnels of one of those playground things with Ethan. That helps. A very little. *groan*
Just to give you an idea... we're talking 43g of fat and over 2000g of sodium in just the portion I ate! Ugh. I am sick just thinking about it!
Well, I suppose there's nothing that can be done for it now. What's done is done and there's no going back. I'll just have to be WAY more careful for the next week if I have any hope of making my goal. *sigh*
posted by KMD at 12:47 PM
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