Day Three: Restaurants are bad!!!

Today I had a nice day in the city. And when I go out, as I said in an earlier post, I am having too much fun to actually think about food, so technically those are the days that I should do really well. Well... it's quite the contrary I'm afraid. And it's the fault of restaurants. When I go to a restaurant, I order something that looks delicious, that if made at home would be 6 points. And every single time I truly believe that it can't possibly be very many points. Then I go home and get on the internet and research how many points it is, and its usually really really shocking.

A couple weeks ago, on a monday -the first day of my weight watchers week- I went to Chili's and thought it would be okay if I ordered a burger, and if it turned out to be a lot I could just be careful the rest of the week... Well it turned out to be 40 points. 40 POINTS!!! That's like 2 of my days.

Anyway, today I had a turkey sandwich at Finagle a Bagel. And I don't actually know how many points it was because it wasn't on the site, so I went to the site of a similar restaurant, and I figured it was somewhere around 12 points. And the worst part really is that I spend the rest of the day thinking I'm doing ok, so by the end of today, I ended up with 39.5 points... I did walk for 4 hours straight, so technically I should be able to erase 12 points. Typically I wouldn't even count that, just so I could get ahead a little, but I know myself, and if I don't count that walk, I won't have any extras left for the week, and if I do that, I'll go insane and give up. I have to give myself a little leeway for the next 4 days so I don't fall off.

What I learned (my advise of the day):

1) Always order soup at a restaurant. NO MATTER HOW HEALTHY SOMETHING LOOKS, IF IT'S NOT SOUP, IT'S PROBABLY 1,000 POINTS. And this does not include creamy soups. Those are the fattiest of all. But vegetable soups should be like zero. And chicken soups are like 2.

2) If possible, if you know you're going out to a certain place, look up what you're gonna eat before hand.

These are seriously new rules for myself, because I continually fall into the trap of taking a little break from thinking about weight watchers when I'm "partying," of course intending to count the points, but assuming that my 35 extra will take care of it. Which it never does. So I'll just set this one simple rule for myself, and it will solve so many of my problems, because I eat out a lot, and it ruins my week almost every week.

POINTS EATEN TODAY: 28