High School Open House last night, what a joy!
Besides getting to meet all of my son's teachers and walking around the massive building (so how do those kids manage to get from class to class in five minutes?), they also have Market Day offerings, candy at every table (you want to sign up for AfterProm? here, have a kit-kat bar), but also bakery, coffee and, thank goodness, bottles and bottles of water. I don't like bottled water, but, it was, in fact, a lifesaver for me.
In order to prep for the open house, our PTSA rep called this week and we had the following conversation:
Her: Can you bring some baked goods?
Me: How about cupcakes?
Her: Well, we were thinking cookies or, better yet, those wonderful little mini-pie bites that you made before.
Me: I can do cupcakes.
Her: We really liked those wonderful little mini-pie things. {NOTE: So do I and you can't eat just one!}
Me: I can do cupcakes
Her: Well, okay.
I am sure the Ways/Means Chair of our local high school's PTSA was totally frustrated and was calling me every kind of name under the sun. She clearly wanted those mini-pie bites but alas, had to do with cupcakes.
But here's the thing, I don't like cake. I do like cookies, pie, crackers and I LOVE those wonderful little mini-pie bites. Super fab . . . pop them in the mouth . . . yummy.
I made cupcakes. 18 cupcakes. And even though I don't like cake (or cupcakes), they called to me: "pssst, over here, on the counter . . . they won't miss one . . . ."
Blow my own horn, I resisted, grabbed a bottle of water and . . . better yet, when I dropped the cupcakes off in the cafeteria, I shut out their annoying little yells ("hey, what about us? You didn't even check to see if we are any good. What if no one likes us?".
When I went back during my son's "lunch break," they were gone. Obviously, others didn't have the will power to resist the CUPCAKE'S CALL.
Even better, someone bought a tray with cheese and crackers. So, I had some cheddar slices and avoided the cookies and brownies and crackers. And drank my second bottle of water for the evening.
Of course, my size 1, 20 year old daughter, came home at 9:30, finishing around for something to eat (by the way, she is more of a carb-ahollic than I am . . . her saving grace is that she is in the pool everyday). She came up with the leftover Pillsbury Fudge Frosting and honey pretzel sticks. Really?!? Go ahead, sit across the table from me and eat the fudge covered pretzel sticks. I had two, but I did run the nutrition calories things through MyFitnessPal and it wasn't that too bad of a hit on my day.
Another fun idea: If you aren't going to enter your food into MyFitnessPal before you eat it, take a picture. Yesterday, I had lunch with friends. Did the salad bar routine and took a picture before everyone else sat down. Later, when I was entering my lunch, I had a mental block as to what was on my salad.
But, since I had a pic, I looked at it and remembered to add the feta cheese to my food journal. It was the one thing I had forgotten.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~yesterday's numbers~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Total Calories under: 90
Fat: 78 (over by 21 . . . its that stupid frosting)
Sodium: 3852 (over by 1552 . . . pretzels anyone (48.6mg)? or the soup (1250mg . . . holy Mother!)?
Carbs: 74 (under according to myfitnesspal by 54 over in my book by 44)
Protein: 96 (under by 74 . . . gotta figure this one out better . . . lean protein, lean protein, lean protein)
So, looking at the above, if I had cut the soup, I would have been close to target on sodium, reduced the carbs by 22, but also reduced the protein by 24. However, if I had added chicken, tuna or salmon to my salad at lunch, I could have gotten the protein back up.