Meat, meat and meat!!

This will be a double post only because I did not have any time out of my day yesterday to post what I had for lunch so I will be posting it on this post along with what I had for lunch today as well.  Yesterday for lunch, I had gone to a steakhouse for lunch.  I went to Texas Roadhouse which I would say is one of the better steakhouses than the others.  My entree was a 10 ounce rib-eye steak with a Caesar salad and french fries.  I also had about three bread rolls with butter.  Now this may seem a lot which is a lot.

The Texas Roadhouse website does not contain the Nutrition Facts so I went onto this website called www.mypyramidtracker.gov to enter and analyze the meal that I had consumed and it will give me the total calories for that meal.  I use this website for most of the meals that I have posted on this blog and it is really helpful for someone who wants to know their daily intake, so I highly recommend this website to keep track of someone's daily intake.  According to www.mypyramidtracker.gov this meal is 1133 calories, which is about more than half of my daily intake of 2000 calories.  To eat this much during lunch is not good, especially when it is 1133 calories, which means that I had to minimize what I ate for the rest of the day.  There are many ways to make this meal a little healthier and that is to change the side orders because there is not much you can do with the steak because the restaurant grills it the way they want to and serve it however it is made, so I would say to just leave the steak how it is ordered or consume half of it at that time and save the rest for later.  As for the sides, instead of a caeser salad, I would order a house salad with dressing on the side, that way you can monitor how much you put on your salad or you could just leave out the dressing.  Next, I could order steamed vegetables or a side of brown rice on the side instead of the french fries.  As for the bread rolls that they give out prior to the meal, it is all up to you to determine how much you would want to consume.  I ate three bread rolls which is quite a lot of carbohydrates so what I would recommend is to fight the resistance and just eat one.  If I substituted the side orders with what I mentioned, than this meal could be about 600 calories according to www.mypyramidtracker.gov.  Which is about 500 calories less that what I had actually consumed.  So this meal could be healthier if I were to made better choices.

Going on what I had ate for today, I had a hamburger and french fries from fuddruckers.  I ate a 1/3 hamburger and some french fries.  

 Nutrition Information

1/3 Hamburger 

Calories: 319 

Total Fat: 26g 

Carbs: 0g 

Protein: 0g

Potato Wedges:

Serving size: 3oz

Calories: 120

Total Fat: 3g

Carbs: 20g

Protein: 2g

If someone wanted a more healthier meal at Fuddruckers, they could definitely go for the vegetarian route, for example there is a veggie burger that is 170 calories or the salmon filet burger which is about 130 calories without the bun.  If someone wanted to stick with a meat burger they do offer the ostrich burger which is 194 calories.  And on request, Fuddruckers can also change out the white bun for a wheat bun.  Fuddruckers also offer various salad dishes, so that is another alternative if someone did not feel like eating a burger at Fuddruckers.  I always ordered potato wedges as a side whenever I go there but they do offer side salads, so that is a healthy alternative to potato wedges.