Time for an off meal!

lgfrie

Wife and I decided we were overdue for a serious no-counting off meal and made a stash of sushi tonight Things they won't serve you in a sushi restaurant, like filet mignon sushi. And lox-cream cheese-egg sushi LOL. But we also made the traditional shrimp tempura sushi, because why not. Didn't quite get to the end of it, but close ...

L1zardQueen

You’re gonna need more wasabi!

Someonerandom1

Yuuuuum!!!!

lynn_glenmont

L1zardQueen wrote: »

You’re gonna need more wasabi!

If anybody ever decides to remake "Jaws," they should replace the "We're going to need a bigger boat" line with "We're going to need more wasabi."


And am I the only who's curious about the three plates for "Wife and I"?

lgfrie

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

And am I the only who's curious about the three plates for "Wife and I"?

My sister came by to help us attempt to consume it all. To wit:

8 cups of rice, 2 filet mignons, 1.5 lbs of shrimp, 2 avocados, 5 oz of smoked salmon, cream cheese, a whole tube of wasabi (they come in small tubes, to address a comment above LOL), 2 jars of pickled ginger, an entire pack of Nori, 4 T of mayo ...

.... all for two people who generally eat 1400 and 1800 calories per day LOL So we needed some help.

We couldn't finish it all. We sent her home with about a dozen pieces when it was all over.

I am so full I can hardly type.

However much weight I gained today, it was totally worth it,

globalc00

I'm curious as to why you wouldn't count the calories if your making it at home. There are only a few ingredients and you can weigh it all out before you make it. Save the free meals for when you are not preparing your own food!!!

Even when I went out for sushi last weekend for my meal off, I found that counting sushi was rather easy. It was a conveyor belt sushi and I ate mostly nigiri, because that is what I like. Yes, taking a food scale to a restaurant may seem extreme, but I wanted an idea of how much I ate when I wasn't restricting my self, meaning I ate till I was full. All i had to do was take the sushi off to get the weight of the rice, then put the sushi back to get the weight of the fish. In the end, i just had to get the nutrition facts for the types of sushi i ate and sushi rice. To my surprise, I actually didn't eat that many more calories than my typical meal and I concluded i can go out to sushi without having to count it as a "cheat" meal as it was well within my calories.

Hanibanani2020

globalc00 wrote: »

I'm curious as to why you wouldn't count the calories if your making it at home. There are only a few ingredients and you can weigh it all out before you make it. Save the free meals for when you are not preparing your own food!!!

Even when I went out for sushi last weekend for my meal off, I found that counting sushi was rather easy. It was a conveyor belt sushi and I ate mostly nigiri, because that is what I like. Yes, taking a food scale to a restaurant may seem extreme, but I wanted an idea of how much I ate when I wasn't restricting my self, meaning I ate till I was full. All i had to do was take the sushi off to get the weight of the rice, then put the sushi back to get the weight of the fish. In the end, i just had to get the nutrition facts for the types of sushi i ate and sushi rice. To my surprise, I actually didn't eat that many more calories than my typical meal and I concluded i can go out to sushi without having to count it as a "cheat" meal as it was well within my calories.

I think it’s important to have off days for some people. Even if they go over it’s not like they can’t get it back on track quickly.

lgfrie

globalc00 wrote: »

I'm curious as to why you wouldn't count the calories if your making it at home. There are only a few ingredients and you can weigh it all out before you make it. Save the free meals for when you are not preparing your own food!!!

Even when I went out for sushi last weekend for my meal off, I found that counting sushi was rather easy. It was a conveyor belt sushi and I ate mostly nigiri, because that is what I like. Yes, taking a food scale to a restaurant may seem extreme, but I wanted an idea of how much I ate when I wasn't restricting my self, meaning I ate till I was full. All i had to do was take the sushi off to get the weight of the rice, then put the sushi back to get the weight of the fish. In the end, i just had to get the nutrition facts for the types of sushi i ate and sushi rice. To my surprise, I actually didn't eat that many more calories than my typical meal and I concluded i can go out to sushi without having to count it as a "cheat" meal as it was well within my calories.

In a nutshell, because we didn't want to know. Those shrimp tempura were deep fried in a boiling cauldron of peanut oil and instead of trying to determine how much oil adhered to the shrimp, I just ... ate them LOL I know some people prefer to account for every calorie, and most of the time we're like that, but every so often we really need a pressure release valve on the diets. For us, that's like once a month. I'd probably count it all out if it was more often than that.

I absolutely guarantee that meal was not within my calories LOL Some things are better not to know.

I'm with you on the Nigri. Love that stuff.

Tomorrow morning - feet on on scale, butt on exercise bike, then head over to the food diary and start logging. That's our rule - enjoy the meal, then get back on the horse.

globalc00

Being able to stick to your diet that is working for you is all that matters. Keep it up.

Geneveremfp

It looks amazing! I love sushi

psychod787

Enjoy brother!