Managing the Damage

I was actually pleasantly surprised with how my eating went yesterday. I knew we were going for dinner at The French Table restaurant last night, which has the most wonderfully rich food running high to foie gras, cheese, dessert and wine. So I was careful earlier in the day, especially with the amount of fat I ate, and made sure to get plenty of vegetables. I also did a very intensive tempo run, managing to run the first 2Km at over 10Km/h for the first time, though that meant I staggered through the rest of my run.

As it turns out, my menu choices were not as high in fat as I thought they would be. I’m guessing from averages of similar foods of course, but skipping the foie gras starter and the cheese course before dessert seems to have kept the total amount of fat in my meal below 37g. I also managed to get almost 88g of protein, so I easily hit my 25% of calories from protein target! The bad news is that I still managed to top 1200 calories in a single meal, which is quite impressive and somewhat surprising to me considering I never felt overly full. The good news is that the last time I ate here I had over 1500 calories, so this is an improvement!

I think this is why God in his wisdom has not made me a wealthy woman, because given a choice I would eat this way every day, and clearly I have no sense of how many calories I’m getting. No amount of exercise is going to keep thrice daily 1000 calorie meals off!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2562.33	173.14g	301.86g	50.74g	31.0g	31.37g
	27%	47%	18%	8%
Calories burned through exercise:		366

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:30	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
08:30	Black Tea	500mL
10:30	Apple	165g
	Irish Yoghurts Diet Fruits of the forest	125g
	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
12:00	Twinings Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
13:30	Chicken breast	77g
	Steamed broccoli	137g
	Steamed carrots	70g
	Steamed parsnips	104g
	Sainsbury's Bramley apple sauce	30g
	Muller rice pudding original	190g
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
14:00	Green Tea	250mL
15:00	Tempo run - 30 min
15:45	Citrus Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
16:15	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in Skim milk	225mL
17:15	Satsumas	96g
19:30	Stuffed quail with quail's egg and gluten free toast	1 serving
	White wine	80mL
20:00	Steamed halibut with clams in a lemon and parsley sauce	1 serving
	Creamy mashed potatoes	1/2 cup
	Red cabbage cooked in wine	3/4 cup
	White wine	80mL
20:30	Cinnamon and pear crème brulee	1 serving
	Dessert sherry	80mL

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.