Put things into perspective...

So, yesterday was not a great day with the eating. I have to remember two things: I ate SOOOO much better than I would have in the same situation before I had a band and that it was not a regular day.

I finished cooking my Indian feast and ate a few slivers of cheese (100 cal.), as I was getting hungry. I should have had a protein shake.

We went to BF's sisters place, where I had a little green salad with a few cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices, light oil and lemon. (75 calories) Then I ate a spice tuna roll, no roe - one of my faves! 290 calories. I would've eaten at least two whole rolls.

Then...the bagels...I resisted for a while. I started with the salad and the sushi roll...but the bagel was calling to me! I removed ALL of the inside, and was basically eating bagel skin ( everything) spread with Country Crock...Let's say 200 calories. Sub- optimal, but oh well...

Then the child's birthday party...One half of a really good pizza slice (200 cal.), 1.5 small slices of fruit tart with custard (350 cal. ??) and fruit...3 sips of red wine. Transformers cake was a big success, and pics are to come!

Dinner party. One glass of red wine, little bit of everything on the menu, a healthy portion, although it was less than everyone else...ate it slowly and although I wanted seconds, once I had it on my plate, i only took two nibbles and left the rest...Not sure of what the calorie count was, though. It was a little more fat than I have been using in the past week, but a lot less than an Indian restaurant! Then two Mallowmar cookies with my tea a little later. (100 calories) Everyone else had full bowls and seconds, and some even went for thirds!

I think, all in all, my calories were under 2000 per day...at my weight, this is still a calorie deficiency, so I shouldn't loose weight from it, but still lose, albeit slower. This is soooooo much less than what I would have put away on an equivalent day two months ago!

I'm just thinking...I would have had a triple potion of breakfast, eaten a bunch of cheese, had an extra sushi roll, eaten the whole bagel and maybe another half, had two slices of pizza, a piece of chocolate cake, a few cookies, as well as the tart, three times as much Indian food at dinner, probably served some fatty appetizer and eaten plenty, made a sugary Indian dessert (I just served some sliced oranges and I did put out the Mallowmars, which were left over from making the  truck birthday cake - I thought it was best eaten by my guests rather than stayed in my kitchen! Two last night is better than the whole box over the next few days!) and had a bunch more wine! And I wouldn't have thought it was a "bad" eating day!