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I’m going to Red Robin for dinner tonight. Yum! Since I know this ahead of time, I decided to check out the nutritional information on the website to get an idea of what some good choices would be.

The website has a very cool feature called the Meal Nutrition Customizer! You choose an item off of the menu and customize it by adding or removing ingredients and/or adding a side dish. It gives you nutritional information for the regular dish as it is usually served, and also gives you the nutritional info for your modifications. For example, the blackened chicken burger is about 800 calories. But when I remove the cheese and mayo, it goes down to 470 calories. Pretty cool huh?

It’s disgusting how many calories are in some of these burgers. The famous Whiskey River BBQ Burger is 1129 calories… that’s without the “bottomless” basket of fries that in comes in.

I suppose that’s where portion control plays a big role. If the idea of ordering a plain chicken sandwich depresses you, just remember that you can get the regular 800 calorie one with the works, but eat half.

*****EDIT: I ordered the Teriyaki Chicken Burger with just the chicken, teriyaki sauce, tomato and lettuce, and it was delicious! The chicken was juicy and the sauce was tasty so I didn’t miss the mayo or cheese. It’s much better than your typical plain grilled chicken sandwich. Only 425 calories, the way I ordered it. I recommend. *******

I am extremely unmotivated to exercise. This excerpt from www.intuitiveeating.com gave me a new perspective. Especially the last sentence… story of my life.

9. Exercise–Feel the Difference Forget militant exercise. Just get active and feel the difference. Shift your focus to how it feels to move your body, rather than the calorie burning effect of exercise. If you focus on how you feel from working out, such as energized, it can make the difference between rolling out of bed for a brisk morning walk or hitting the snooze alarm. If when you wake up, your only goal is to lose weight, it’s usually not a motivating factor in that moment of time.

I’ve been very hungry lately. I’ve been craving bad foods and wanting to pig out on anything. But I haven’t.

Today, my 13 yr old brother asked me to get McDonald’s for him and his 2 friends. The order was: 3 double cheeseburgers, 1 cheeseburger, 2 large fries, 1 small fry, and a vanilla milkshake. My mouth was watering as I read the list.

Driving the 3 minutes down the road to our McDonald’s, I was angry that I couldn’t eat it. I wanted it. I contemplated getting whatever I wanted and pigging out on it, just to get it out of my system. Then I reminded myself that it would be even harder tomorrow if I pigged out today. I thought about getting a salad with grilled chicken. But I only like the ranch dressing, and if I’m going to spend the calories, I want to get something hearty.

Then I remembered a Dunkin Donuts commercial I saw for Egg Whites Flat Bread Sandwiches!! There’s a DD on the same street as the McD! But I just saw the commercial yesterday, will they have them in stock yet?

They do! I got the turkey sausage one (as opposed to the vegetable one). It has turkey sausage and spinach cooked right in with the egg whites. It also comes with reduced fat mottzarella cheese on a multigrain bread.

It’s pretty good. It’s no fast food. I will never crave it as much as a burger and fries, but it filled me up and was kinda tasty. And best of all, I didn’t exactly feel like I was missing out on getting fast food today.

PS: I snuck a fry out of one of the large fries that I got for my brother’s friend. It wasn’t even that good.