bloomin' bad

I started a diet last week. Every food has a point value. I'm allowed to eat 20 points a day. A cup of fruit is 1 point. The Bloomin' Onion from Outback is 44 points. That means, even if I share it with someone, it's still an entire day of points! This link says, "According to Restaurant Confidential, one Bloomin Onion with the Dipping Sauce contains 2130 calories and 163 grams of fat! Leave out the sauce and you still consume 1690 calories and 119 grams of fat, 57 of them saturated.". Ew.

I say this every time we eat at Outback... That Bloomin' Onion should have warning flags in it. "May cause heart attack." "Share this with 7 friends and it's sort of ok to eat." "A moment on the lips... You know the rest." "Have a salad instead." But it doesn't have flags, and we see them coming out of the kitchen one after another.

Dottie has point values for a lot of restaurants, and Outback is listed. She doesn't even LIST the Bloomin' Onion! Maybe it's not really considered food? Hrm... Her Outback page's highest point food is the Aussie Cheese Fries at 32 points. That one should have the flags as well. Maybe I'll just eat in.

Comments

[Nicole]

So how has the diet been going? I'm proud of you for starting a diet right when the holidays are starting!

[erika]

Thanks!

It's been going well! I like the new flex points program. I have to eat 20 points every day, and then there are 35 flex points to deduct from all week. I can eat (drink - who am I kidding!) them all in one day, or spread them out over the whole week! I'm getting the hang of it, and even writing everything down (which I HATE).

Next week, all my Thanksgiving recipies are from Cooking Light!

[Laren]

All points ingested at Otto on Sunday don't count. . . .

[erika]

hee. agreed.