Brownies--ouch!

I fasted yesterday, so I didn't bother to count calories for dinner. We had steak and shrimp and oven fries. I forgot to make a vegetable so we had a little of the asian zero point soup too. Not bad stuff! The thing that was a mistake was my famous coco, coconut brownies. I made half a recipe so there wouldn't be leftovers--that's good. We split what I made in two and ate that. That's bad. I bit the bullet and looked up the calories. 160 per 1/16 of the pan. I ate 1/4 of a pan. PLUS I add nuts, coconut and chocolate chips. I estimate what I ate yesterday was 700 cal. I'd like to think that if I had known that I would have been more careful about counting--yesterday was supposed to be 1500 cal. Actually, it probably wasn't too far off of that even with the brownie. But still, in the spirit of trying to eat right, that much brownie is ridiculous and I knew that perfectly well before I ate it.

On the bright side, I didn't like the way that brownie made me feel. Sugar crash big time. Next time, 1/2 of that brownie will still be more than plenty psychologically and will alas, still be a big calorie hit.

Today is a Hungry Girl day. I'm officially disappointed in her diet book. She has GREAT recipes, but the recipes in her book are repetitive and not really my favorites---lots of salads and stuff like chow mein. I'm still going to keep HG days in the mix though. They are low calorie and BIG portions which I love. Today's oatmeal had apples, walnuts and pumpkin. It was very good. I'll have a huge salad for lunch with the flaming chicken from the other night. Snacks are almonds, string cheese, caramel rice cakes (like those!), Dinner is a weird portobello, chicken tostada. Hopefully, Smiths will have 1 more portobello. Actually, if I like tonight's dinner that will help my attitude about the HG book quite a bit. The meals are interchangeable.

Now, I'm going to look up the calorie count for Einstein's bagels. I'm guess 500-600 for a big bagel? My boss brought some in today to celebrate the first day of school. I'm not eating any today, but maybe tomorrow? With schmear of course. I love bagels. I wish they were lower cal and more filling though. I'll live if I decide not to have one.

Gratitude:

That Catherine sounded so happy last night!!
The power of fasting
Gorgeous post on love on facebook
That I get to take classes here
That winter driving hasn't been an issue so far
That Major Fest is coming together
Enough money to buy stuff like shrimp
That we managed to go to SLC and not spend any money