How to splurge

I went out to dinner last night with Tracy last night to celebrate her birthday. On my suggestion, we went to Macaroni Grill, because their food is yummy and they post their nutrition info online, so I can try (and I do mean try) to stay within my diet.

I did really well with dinner - ordered chicken cannelloni, and only ate about a third of it. I ordered a nice vodka martini, which isn't so bad. Did have a lot of bread; Tracy and I split the loaf.

But when dessert rolled around... I ordered the apple crisper a la mode.

And ate the whole thing.

Per the website, just the dessert was 1080 calories. Whoa. But damn it was delicious. I cleaned my plate.

I rationalized it by saying I had run 5+ miles earlier that day, but the whole reason I run long on the weekends is to burn more calories. The whole strategy only works if I run hard and still stay under calories.

But when I woke up this morning, I weighed the same as yesterday. 193.5. No change.

Today, as of this post, I've only eaten about 1200 calories. I'm going to stay way under for the day. And I just ran in place for 30 minutes, also. I don't want the calories from yesterday to show up on the scale tomorrow morning.

We'll see how it goes.