Day 33: Eating Out

Eating out and sticking with you good eating habits can be pretty taxing. Tonight I went out with my family to an Italian restaurant and ate WAY more than I usually limit myself to per meal. I guess there are two schools of thought on this sort of thing. The first school says "Shame! Never break your diet." The second school says, "It's ok to cheat once in a while/on weekends/one meal per week/when you're traveling/when the moon is full..." etc.

I think both schools are bunk. Pretend you're not dealing with food but money. There are lot of parallels between managing your health/diet and managing your money. It's ok to spend money (even a lot of money) if you can afford and you do it consciously. If you accept the consequences and understand them as costs, not as sins, then you'll keep more balanced and probably still with you diet (and your good spending habits) longer.

I spent about 1500 calories on one meal tonight. That's about 90 minutes of exercise. I paid it gladly. No, I didn't get a full 90 minutes in today, but over time I will, and things will even out. If you consider the choice to eat more and exercise more vs. eat less and exercise less, it's obvious which one is better for your health right? No one wants to look like a flabby stick figure. Better to put the calories in and burn some of them right back off as fuel and task some of them with repairing your muscles (especially your heart.)

Anyway, I got my workout tonight. Here's the shot and stats:

Weight: Calories consumed: Aerobic time logged: Calories burned: Bench Press: Pull-ups: Mile time:

169lbs. 2850 0:30:00 333 none none ~6:30 min