Our work had a pot luck today. I planned to have a piece of cheesecake. Well, I had it, and then, I looked up the calories. Over 400 calories in 1/12th of a 9inch pie! I didn't plan, but also ate, one of those little plastic spoonsfull of quiche and one of peach cobbler. Those weigh in, caloriewise, at almost 100 cal. each.. So now I am going to have to starve the rest of the day, or else eat too much and I already ate too much yesterday. I guess if I had it to do over again, I would still have the cheesecake, but not the other two spoonfulls. A teaspoon of anything isn't worth 100 calories.

100 calories sounds like an awful lot for a little spoonful of peach cobbler? Are you sure you're calculating that right. I think you're being a little hard on yourself. Don't worry about it too much.

I wouldn't starve for the rest of the day, I would eat healthy normal servings of your regular food. Tomorrow is new day and you'll be back on track

DO NOT starve yourself the rest of the day. At your next meal eat EXACTLY what you would have eaten if you hadnt eaten the treats and go on from there. 600 calories is NOTHING in the grand scheme of things (1/6th of a pound), all it means is today wont be a loss. But getting yourself on a punishment cycle can be very devastating in the long term.

Log it and move on.

Jamie, you are right, I was calculating (Fitday) the spoons of quiche and cobbler as 3 cubic inches each! Well, it wasn't nearly that much probably not even half of that. Whew, what a relief!

Now I can go on and eat the rest of my healthy food, as thingirl suggests.

Sometimes I get a little to obsessed with this stuff.

Ennay, your kids are so cute!

I might threaten to starve, but I probably won't really. I wasn't thinking of it as a punishment cycle, but I see that it's not a good idea.

I have been annoying everyone at work by volunteering to figure out how many calories they ate at lunch. They will really be annoyed if I miscalculate.

I know, we all get a little carried away from time to time...we just have to keep in mind that true weight loss isn't an over the night thing, it takes months and months.

Hey gailr42,

This is a lesson I have had many times: Don't eat it until you read the label. I can't remember what the last disaster was that I had, but it was a similarly huge number of calories that blew my day... It's one thing if I KNOW I'm going over... another thing to get blindsided.

I wonder, though, if it's the best idea to be looking up calories for the people at work...

Jay

I'm not sure weightwise what it would be but on fitday an oz of peach cobbler ranges from 45-60 calories and I have no idea what kind of quiche it was or what a quiche is for that matter so I can't look that one up, but you may have not done as bad as you thought. All you can do is move forward. I've definately made this mistake before, recently actually, but at least now you know for future reference! Hope it was good cheesecake though Yum

I'm over it, and next time I will check first.

I am only giving people calorie counts if they want to know. Mostly they say they are going to eat it anyway, so who cares?