Rest Stop - Pizza Pie Cafe

Time for a confession.  This journey started in April because Vick and I were concerned about my life and were it was going.  I call this a journey because as I said in an earlier post my Dr. had given my 6 to 8 years to live and the first three letters of Diet are "DIE" and I am not to fond of that prospect right now.  So hence the use of the therm "Journey".  I have gone off the grid a few times and that includes going to out to dinner three times.  The last time was last night.  And now for the confession.

My son-in-laws sister won dinner for ten adults at the Pizza Pie Cafe. She decided to redeem the dinner last night.  Vick and I got invited to go along and we went.  We should have had a game plan before going.  Vick is trying to lose a little weight although I don't think she needs to.

What is funny about this whole thing, is one the radio the night before last they were talking about the pizza buffet at the Pizza Pie Cafe and she asked how quick we could get to SLC and go to the buffet.  We decided that we would wait for awhile before we went but as it turned out we waited less than 24 hours.

I did have a large veggie salad before I had any pizza and I did not indulge in pasta, maybe I should have and left the pizza alone.  There were at least a dozen pizzas to chose from along with six dessert pizzas.  The pasta choices number about eight with several different sauces.  Hard to choose and be on this journey.

I don't think I did to bad but I know I could have done better.  Like I said before, I started with a large salad, which normally I probably wouldn't have in the past, but I did have Ranch Dressing instead of a vinaigrette.  Bad choice on my part.  I did limit myself to 4 slices of pizza, which was good for mew beacuse I can usually eat a whole pie without skipping a beat.  It appears they cut there pies into 16 slices which actually makes for a small slice.  I think three of them would not be to much large than one slice from Costco.  I know trying to justify what I ate.  Is it working?  I did have two slices of their dessert pizzas and after I did I wished I would have had a couple of more slices of the regular pies or maybe some pasta instead.  They were good but since I have not had much sugar on this journey, they seemed overly sweet.

I figure the pizza was in the neighborhood of about 170 calories per slice, which would be around 700 calories in pizza and with the dessert pizza weighing in at about 225 calories per slice for a total of 450 or so, bringing my pizza total to around 1200 calories ,plus salad and soda.  I forgot to mention the dinner include soda, but again I filled my 32 oz cup less than full and that was mostly ice.  But it still contained around 300 calories.  This made for a dinner of over two thousand calories.  Not good.

Vick and I have decided we will have a plan in place before we go out again.  It is hard to believe that this is only the third time we have been out to dinner when we used to go out two or three times a week.  I had to keep telling Vick we only screwed up one meal not the whole deal and we would start over being good this morning.  I told her that would be the pattern I will be following for the rest of my life.  I will occasionally go off eating clean but will always come back to it the next meal  because I have worked to hard to lose this 65 pounds and I want to lose about 100 more. Besides we have to much money invested in this journey.