Fat Loss: Week Seven, Day Five

I knew that we were going to celebrate an early Father's Day with a nice dinner, so I purposely ate very little during the day. By the time dinner rolled around I had only eaten less than 700 calories.

At dinner I found that I didn't really feel like stuffing myself until I couldn't eat another bite, and I actually found that interesting. In the past I would look at events like this as a "no holds barred" eating situation and just pig out, but with all the progress I've made and perhaps because I'm just used to smaller portions, I ate until I felt somewhat satisfied and that was enough.

Now here is the interesting/scary part... This morning I went and calculated the calories for the meal, and although I did eat conservatively, because it involved New York steak, wine and chocolate cake, the one meal alone came to over 1,900 calories! (Thank goodness I ate so little during the day!)

My point is that I was eating conservatively (for lack of a better term) for the type of meal it was: I didn't finish my huge steak, I had a small portion of mashed potatoes and a very small piece of chocolate cake, and the total for the meal was still outrageous.