Chris Reimagined

Well, sitting back and looking at today, I can’t say if today was a success, a failure or what.  The reason for my confusion really boils down to two things: lunch and dinner.

For lunch, we tried a new Mexican place.  If you know me,  you’re already saying “uh oh.”   Mexican food is my passion and my vice’.  I would strongly consider trading my wife for a life time supply of good salsa and tortilla chips.  (Love you honey!)  This was a recipe for disaster.

I gotta say, when they plopped down that basket of tortilla chips and gave me my own bowl of salsa, I was tempted.  So very tempted.  I even started the internal negotiation process.  “Well, you already had a bad day, but that was for last week.  You can have another one.  What’s it matter?”

Then I remembered something… the number 17.  As in there are 17 grams of fat per basket of tortilla chips.  Seriously, look at the basket next time and think to your self “17 grams of fat.”  So, I’d like to say that I had no tortilla chips at all, but instead I instituted an old rule.  The 10 Chip rule.  As in when I go to a Mexican place, I can have 10 tortilla chips.  Which is probably 1/4th or 1/5th of a basket.  Not awful, but not great.

Oh, and for the record I only had 7 and everytime I ate one, I repeated to myself “17 grams of fat.”  Also, for the record my meal was chicken mole and I had left rice and beans on my plate.

So honestly, I don’t know how to score that.

Then there was dinner.  I was all set to have my leftover veggies, rice, and noodles from Shogun when I remembered that I had promised to make my wife steak wraps.  Now, normally this wouldn’t be a big thing.  There is about 3-4 oz of steak per wrap.  However, I am trying to perfect my recipe.  I can’t say why, but it’s critical that on Sunday I make the steak wrap of my life.

So I ended up eating maybe 12 oz of steak and some of those veggies.  Again, it’s not perfect, but I honestly can’t say if it’s a bad day.  I didn’t give in to overeating nor did I let food control me, but I’ve certainly done better.  Much better.

On the plus side, I burned 467 calories on Wii Active.  So today wasn’t a total loss.

What do you all think?