dances with calorie counting
Nov. 16th, 2005 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeKnowing the fastest ways to fix my brane, Brian took me for ice cream at Maggie Moo's, which we'd passed a bunch of times but hadn't been to yet. Not only is it absofuckinglutely fantastic--move over, Ben & Jerry; go way back and sit down, Haagen-Dasz--but they have a great range of flavors. I stopped at cinnamon. I will perform any sex act you care to name, twice over, for cinnamon ice cream. In virtuous service to the diet, though, I only got the smallest possible cup.
Which virtue turned out to be almost entirely irrelevant, in the event.
For dinner, we tried this vaguely-"upscale" (if that's not a contradiction in terms) Mexican fast food place, by which I mean they make much noise about super-fresh ingredients and sauces made in-house and your burrito is constructed in front of you to your liking, blah blah healthy blah artisanal blah. Taste-wise, it was a cut above standard fast food, though it certainly wasn't the best burrito I've ever had; but it was good enough.
Less pleasing was when I got home to look up the nutritional data, for to log my intake, and found that my innocuous chicken burrito (rice, black beans, corn salsa, no cheese, no guac, no sour cream) was 950 calories.
OMGWTFBBQ fails to fully express my shock and dismay. O happy day, that I only ate half of the fucking thing.
And of course, this also makes me wonder if I've been dramatically underestimating the amount of calories when I get a burrito at Cafe Beyond, or Burritoville, or Uncle Moe's.
Which virtue turned out to be almost entirely irrelevant, in the event.
For dinner, we tried this vaguely-"upscale" (if that's not a contradiction in terms) Mexican fast food place, by which I mean they make much noise about super-fresh ingredients and sauces made in-house and your burrito is constructed in front of you to your liking, blah blah healthy blah artisanal blah. Taste-wise, it was a cut above standard fast food, though it certainly wasn't the best burrito I've ever had; but it was good enough.
Less pleasing was when I got home to look up the nutritional data, for to log my intake, and found that my innocuous chicken burrito (rice, black beans, corn salsa, no cheese, no guac, no sour cream) was 950 calories.
OMGWTFBBQ fails to fully express my shock and dismay. O happy day, that I only ate half of the fucking thing.
And of course, this also makes me wonder if I've been dramatically underestimating the amount of calories when I get a burrito at Cafe Beyond, or Burritoville, or Uncle Moe's.
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Date: 2005-11-16 09:35 pm (UTC)I think my schedule frees up in.... February?
Either way, we have a guest room, and you're more than welcome to come up.
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Date: 2005-11-16 10:33 pm (UTC)