Eating at a buffet is a fine art; on the one hand you can gently graze your way through a metric tonne of food without really realising, on the other you can carefully pick and choose just one of each of the most appetising options and (again without really realising) only have half a meal and be hungry an hour later – just in time for a snack attack.
Yesterday I fell into the second category. I had a wonderful lunch - which included 2 kinds of gluten free rolls - at a very chic vegetation buffet restaurant just off Regent’s Street called tibits (well, a girl has got to live the high life every now and then). Everything had a card indicating what was gluten free and there were many delicious options. I was in food heaven and on my best behaviour, so I used all the good buffet tricks, small plate, gather everything in one trip and just get one of each thing. I’m guessing I had about 400 calories, high in fat and low in protein, but I really have no idea since I had a little bit of at least twelve different dishes. I thought I had done OK but I was absolutely starving and craving sweets an hour later – which is how I ended up having chocolate mousse and cappuccino at Pret a Manger.
Proof of just how hard it is to manage my diet when I eat out!
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 2143.46 | 100.01g | 220.46g | 74.31g | 25.80g | 17.52g |
| 19% | 41% | 31% | 8% | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 07:45 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Mattesson's Turkey rashers | 3 rashers | |
| Gluten Free fruit muesli | 70g | |
| Alpro Soy milk | 120mL | |
| Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
| 09:00 | Black Tea | 500mL |
| 10:00 | Raspberry and Echinacea tea | 250mL |
| 10:45 | Irish Yoghurts Diet Fruits of the forest | 125g |
| Clementines | 120g | |
| 13:30 | Vegetarian buffet at tibits | 450g |
| 15:00 | Pret a Manger Chocolate mousse | 1 portion |
| Pret a Manger cappuccino | 1 regular | |
| with sugar | 2 packets | |
| 19:15 | Waitrose whole roasted chicken, breast meat | 102g |
| Waitrose prepared fresh broccoli and butternut | 100g | |
| Essential Waitrose Bramley apple sauce | 20g | |
| Rosé wine | 150mL | |
| 19:45 | Waitrose Wensleydale with Cranberries | 25g |
| Waitrose Cornish Quartz Cheddar | 25g | |
| Seedless green Grapes | 50g | |
| Rosé wine | 150mL |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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