It probably sounds like I spend a lot of time in Atlantic City which I really don't as a rule. But I do like to play in poker tournaments and The Borgata is having their "Winter Open" so I've gone down to play in a few of the events. Today was the Senior event -- I thought perhaps I could beat some old people which I couldn't.
I left the house at about 10:30 stopping into my local bakery and picking up a raspberry croissant to eat on the way. Had my handy, dandy snack pack with me so had a handful of raisins and nuts as a snack. For dinner, I went into The Metropolitan and had a tuna with sliced hard boiled egg on white toast and some French fries. I don't know why I order fries because I only eat a few of them. When I get a sandwich there, they load it up with tuna fish that I end up taking half of the tuna off the bread. I got knocked out of the tournament early and went over to Showboat with a friend of mine to play in another tournament that evening. The only mistake with doing this is that the poker room is right next to Johnny Rockets restaurant....a place noted for their milkshakes and egg creams. I couldn't resist. I grew up in Brooklyn where we had egg creams all the time. Here's a picture of egg cream ingredients. It's hard to pass up something that looks like that. It was a little tough trying to come up with the calorie count for an egg cream on my Lose It app but, even with this, I was only over by 347 calories. I also think that some of the calories I'm assigning to the things I eat are way over how many calories they actually are. I know it's not good to be over at all but, when I'm away from home, these things happen. When I was with my friend, who is also on a diet, I showed her the app and what I was eating and she noted that even though I was within my calorie budget each day, the things I was eating contained a lot of fat. This is something for me to think about going forward. I might be on my "own" plan where I can eat what I want....just with moderation....but I still have to consider how much better it would be to change some of my choices. Food for thought.
I left the house at about 10:30 stopping into my local bakery and picking up a raspberry croissant to eat on the way. Had my handy, dandy snack pack with me so had a handful of raisins and nuts as a snack. For dinner, I went into The Metropolitan and had a tuna with sliced hard boiled egg on white toast and some French fries. I don't know why I order fries because I only eat a few of them. When I get a sandwich there, they load it up with tuna fish that I end up taking half of the tuna off the bread. I got knocked out of the tournament early and went over to Showboat with a friend of mine to play in another tournament that evening. The only mistake with doing this is that the poker room is right next to Johnny Rockets restaurant....a place noted for their milkshakes and egg creams. I couldn't resist. I grew up in Brooklyn where we had egg creams all the time. Here's a picture of egg cream ingredients. It's hard to pass up something that looks like that. It was a little tough trying to come up with the calorie count for an egg cream on my Lose It app but, even with this, I was only over by 347 calories. I also think that some of the calories I'm assigning to the things I eat are way over how many calories they actually are. I know it's not good to be over at all but, when I'm away from home, these things happen. When I was with my friend, who is also on a diet, I showed her the app and what I was eating and she noted that even though I was within my calorie budget each day, the things I was eating contained a lot of fat. This is something for me to think about going forward. I might be on my "own" plan where I can eat what I want....just with moderation....but I still have to consider how much better it would be to change some of my choices. Food for thought.
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