Women's Church Dinner Baked Potato

Tuesday September 13, 2016 Menu

For breakfast I choose a light meal.  One egg over easy with one slice of bacon.  For a snack I brought an apple to work.  I grazed on it most of the morning.  For lunch I had the last of my leftover crawfish ettoufee and catfish.  Then of course someone at work just had to bring a cake to the office.  I tried really hard to not eat it.  I felt tortured just to have it.  So I cut a very small sliver just to get a taste.  When I got home I did 20 minutes of cardio.  I sat down to see in the My Fitness Pal diary how my calories were going.  I still had about 600 calories left for my evening meal.  We had a women's dinner at the church.  They served us a HUGE baked potato, see photo.  You had almost every topping available, including chili.  But I kept it simple.  I put butter, sour cream and cheese.  I skipped the desert's.  The potato was so large I knew I shouldn't eat the whole thing.  I ate half.  WOW later I found out that just half was right at 400 calories.  So if I had the whole potato I would have went over and if I had a desert I really would have went over.  Remember that just because it's there we don't have to eat it all.  I finished the day with a total of 1297 calories for the day.  I was 35 under my calorie goal.    Another great day!  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