What I Eat After Eating Out: Snacky Date Night

This past weekend, my husband and I got out for a snacky date night at a brewery and it was the best time! 

We ordered pub pretzels, chips and beer cheese; a flight of different beer, and; a flatbread pizza. That doesn’t sound like something someone on a diet would eat, right? Good thing I’m not on a diet ;)

Today, I wanted to share how I ate the day after we went out for our snacky date night. 

Spoiler alert: I didn’t do or eat anything out of the ordinary. I just went on living and eating like normal.

Since I had some beer, which is rare nowadays, I started the day with a large cup of water with a pinch of salt and a squeeze of lemon. I made sure to drink a gallon of water throughout the day.

For breakfast, I made an omelet with 1 egg, 2 egg whites, ham and pepperjack cheese. I had a side of rye toast with butter, and a cup of coffee.

For lunch, we had meatballs, sausage, Italian bread, salad and a cupcake. We ate lunch at my mom’s house because it was my brother’s birthday. I had an extra helping of the protein and skipped the rigatoni. I thoroughly enjoyed the cookies and cream cupcake for dessert!

Lunch was pretty filling, so a cup of miso soup with dumplings was the perfect lower-calorie dinner.

A couple hours later, I was hungry for something sweet again so I ended the day with a homemade chocolate chip cookie.

This day ended up coming in around 1,840 calories and I feel good about how I handled “getting back on track” after eating out of the ordinary. As you can see there was no “restricting” or “making up for eating out”. I just went on with my day, working toward a slight calorie deficit, as usual.