Chocolate Cake

Thursday August 18, 2016 Menu

This day I knew I was going to be eating heavy so for breakfast I had 1 scrambled egg.  I had a regional staff meeting in Monroe and had no idea what the menu was for lunch.  I had made a homemade chocolate cake from scratch to bring for the meeting.  It was something I have been wanting and figured if I shared I wouldn't be tempted to have to eat it all.  Because as you all know so far I hate for food to go to waste.   I entered in all my ingredients and determined if large slices were served that it would be cut into 12 pieces.  One slice of this 12 piece cake was 480 calories!  When lunch time came we had BBQ West delivered.  It was BBQ chicken, brisket, coleslaw, baked beans, potato salad and Texas garlic toast.  I didn't take a picture of my meal because my bosses were there and I didn't want them to see. lol  Also,  I was not able to determine ahead of time what I was going to eat and how much of it.  So this is an instance of how you can either under estimate or over estimate  your meal.  I choose one chicken thigh.  One small serving of brisket.  I had a Styrofoam plate that had the 3 divider in it.  I put like 1 level tablespoon of baked beans and potato salad into one section of the divider.  Then I finished it off with 1 garlic toast bread in the other divider and one serving of my chocolate cake.  I had estimated my lunch menu to be about 800-900 calories with the desert.  Well when it was all said and done I had 1,100 calories for lunch.  I probably would have been OK if I wouldn't have had the bread and chocolate cake.  I knew I shouldn't have it but I under estimated my calories for the main meal.  For supper I had half of a baked potato and had some southern white sausage gravy on top.   My friends and I had an emergency and didn't get to exercise.   But we did get 3 hours of working exercise later in the evening.  I really enjoyed being able to share my homemade chocolate cake and not have any leftovers to be tempted with later.  With under estimating my lunch menu I went over my calories by 280 calories for a total of 1615 calories for the day.  On a positive note I put only one hour my working exercise in my food diary and the results said I should have been OK with my overage.  For my weight loss I would still like to keep my calories at the 1330 total with or without exercise.   If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity. 

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell