New Club I'm Starting

I am starting a new club. It's called "People for Realistic Serving Sizes". So I didn't blog last night because I was irritated at myself and at Papa Murphy's. We had a coupon for a Chicken Artichoke Bacon D'lite pizza from Papa Murphy's so I did my due diligence and looked up the nutrition information before we decided to get it. It wasn't too bad. It was 180 calories per slice and 9 grams of fat. I knew that the 9 grams of fat was a little high but not too bad for a piece of pizza and I had been saving up some calories for some pizza.

So anyway..the pizza comes out of the oven smelling better than I ever could have expected. The crust was nice and crispy and the cheese was bubbly. I ate that first piece and thought..mmm..this is good. I had another piece using the rationalization that it would still only put me at 360 and I usually allow myself about 700 calories for dinner. Needless to say, by the time we were done we had finished off the whole pizza. Now..while I know that this is an issue in and of itself, I had made a choice. I knew that it was 720 calories and 36 grams of fat. I would usually never eat anything close to that many fat grams but I also know that if I don't allow myself some pizza every once in a while that I would do great for a few weeks and then binge. So...anyway..I had made a choice. I then went on the computer later in the evening to log my calories and went back to Papa Murphy's website to make sure I had my #'s correctly. It was then and only then that I saw the little bitty print that said that a serving size was based on a piece being 1/10th of the pizza. This would have equated to a sliver. CAN WE GET REALISTIC?? So anyway...I got frustrated and had to give myself a pep talk to do better at looking at serving sizes (which I almost always do) and that maybe next time, I should eat a big salad before the pizza comes out so that I won't want so much.

I just sometimes wonder who comes up with these serving sizes....they drive me nuts.