Red Flopster

John's birthday was last week while he was gone. We have always had the birthday person choose a special meal for their birthday dinner. And John always chooses Red Lobster. So my challenge: build myself a meal that was about the equivalent of a DTG dinner. Investigating the nutrition amounts for the meals (http://www.diettogo.com/0108web/nutritionals/Lcal_LowFatNutritionals0808_all.htm) I saw that the average dinner was about 600 calories. While realizing I wouldn't be able to get a nutritiously complete meal, I was striving to keep the calories within range. So I went online to the website. Actually, I had to open up two different windows. It was annoying that the nutrition info only had the entree name and not the description. So I had to keep going back and forth, looking at the nutrition after finding an entree I liked. And back and forth. And back and forth. I finally settled on a built meal of grilled shrimp, crab legs, and grilled salmon. I indulged in rice on the side and petite shrimp on the salad but no dressing. And absolutely no biscuits. Those are 150 calories each!! So my built meal was 680. Not too bad but whew, the research.

I called in the carryout order while we were leaving the best playground in the world. (Clemyjontri. 2 acres of childhood fun. Nicky ran for almost two hours.) I was on hold for over 10 minutes and was then told it would be 45 minutes until it was ready. Seriously. Granted, it's been a while since we've eaten out but I don't remember it being so aggravating getting take-out. I think I'm spoiled.

I joined the Biggest Loser pound for pound challenge. I figure I'm losing the weight anyway so I may as well help out a bit. I would ask my fellow weight-loss bloggers to check it out. What I'm intrigued about was the weight loss of the players who went home for 30 days. In two weeks, I lost over 3 1/2 pounds. One person lost 2, two others lost 7 and 8, I think. Somewhere around there. So these people, who are competing for big bucks, and had the advantage of spending a week with trainers learning the ropes, are losing the same or less weight than me. Hmmmmm.