The Truth About Dining Out

30. Mar, 2011 6 Comments

Workouts:

Monday AM: Spin/Core
Monday PM: Yoga
Tuesday PM: 7-mile run
Wednesday AM: Strength Training w/Trainer
Wednesday PM: Spin
(You can read details of all works here.)

Other than my race report of the Oakland Running Festival, I haven’t blogged regularly for almost a week. Life has been busy and I’ve hardly had time to keep up with the basic daily basics….like blogging!

Last week I went out to dinner at the Elephant Bar. I noticed that they have started to include calories on their menu. Now I know that there are a lot of calories consumed when eating out, but after reading their menu, I was honestly shocked!

Seeing how much calories were in every item really impacted my decision on what to order. I love sweet potatoes fries – but not for 720 calories!

I ended up ordering the Garlic Noodles with Shrimp, which was a mere 780 calories.

Less than some of the items on the “Light Menu.”

Back in the day, from college up until 2003, I ate out for practically every single meal. I never grocery shopped and didn’t know how to cook. The staff at the local restaurants knew me by name and what my regular orders were. It’s no wonder I was 50+ lbs heavier back then. I wish all restaurants printed nutritional data on their menus. I think it would really influence the decisions that we all make.

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Picking up on my 30-day Photo Challenge (which is now a “30 Days of Blogging Challenge”):

Day 03 – A picture of the cast from your favorite show

I watch a lot of TV. I mean…A LOT of TV.

Sunday: Amazing Race, Brothers & Sisters
Monday: Gossip Girl, Hawai’i 5-0, DWTS
Tuesday: Biggest Loser, Glee
Wednesday: Modern Family, Law & Order: SVU
Thursday: The Office, Grey’s Anatomy
Friday: Blue Blood, Who Do You Think You Are
Saturday: Law & Order: Los Angeles

And there are a lot more (like GH since I’ve been watching since I was 5 yrs old)…

I don’t watch any of the shows live; I TiVo everything and save it all for Sundays so I can fast forward through commercials and the story lines I don’t care for.

For obvious reasons, I picked Hawai’i 5-0 as my current show. Whenever I watch it, I feel closer to home!

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  3. What I Ate Today – 06.22.2009
  4. What I Ate Today – 07.27.2009
  5. What I Ate Today – 07.26.2009
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  • Anonymous

    Right?! I used to eat out for practically every meal. These days I try to limit myself to the weekends only. Helps on the pocketbook too!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not surprised. If your students don’t know what the nutritional values are, more than likely their parents don’t either. But am glad to hear it is being in addressed in schools!

  • Anonymous

    This is good to know! I haven’t seen many in many restaurants yet, but hopefully soon!

  • http://twitter.com/jobo_determined jobo

    I KNOW what you mean about the dining out and the calories! Seeing them on so many menus now really makes it so much more real, obviously, and it’s shocking how many some dishes have, and some unsuspecting ones too. Makes it feel much more like a treat (as it should be) and not so much as a regular occurrence!

  • Kerry

    I have my students do a nutrition project with fast food restaurants so not only are they aware of what’s out there, but what they mean. You’d be surprised how many teenagers don’t understand what carbohydrate, protein, fat or calories mean!

  • layla

    Actually, a law just went into effect Jan. 1 that all restaurants in California must post the nutritional info on their menus. They’re even on the Starbucks signs now. So handy!

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