Determined To Succeed

Hello, my friends. Yes, there was a purposeful reason for me being so late today with today’s entry – I was waiting until after seeing the dentist.

Yeah, I waited until after my appointment to write because I was all in a tizzy. You guys know what I’ve been through already with my teeth and I had to go back today because my mouth was feeling particularly sensitive to things like heat and cold and chewing…things it should not be sensitive to. Anywho, I went and it turns out everything is fine, and they put some desensitizing goo on my tooth and gums which tastes like a cross between a strawberry gum and Elmer’s Glue. Ick, but O.K. I’d rather have gone in for them to tell me nothing’s wrong rather than put it off only to have the Grand Canyon of problems happen.  The only drawback to the Elmer’s Goo (as I now call it) was that I had to wait half-an-hour to eat or drink anything and I sooooooo needed coffee this morning. And while I was at it I was a bit peckish so I did something different today…I went to Subway.

I haven’t been to a Subway in at least a few of years. I have nothing at all against them, it’s just that I think I overdosed on sandwiches from there when I was beginning to try to lose weight and eat better. The Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich was my best friend for a while and at only 380 calories (only 40 calories of which from fat with 4.5 grams total fat) it was (and is still probably) a tasty lunch or dinner.

Anyway, in the half-hour I needed to kill before my Elmer’s Goo set I went into uncharted territory and tried one of Subway’s breakfast Muffin Melts. I know I could have gone to McDonald’s (their sausage is made from addictive crack, after all) but I wanted to take it easy on the calories (and the fat) and I had heard that their breakfast sandwiches were at or around only 200 calories.  With that in mind I bellied up (all puns intended) to the ordering station and ordered myself a Western Egg & Cheese Muffin Melt (using egg whites) on English muffin.

You know what? That was a pretty tasty sandwich. It was fairly comparable to McDonald’s Egg McMuffin in terms of ingredients but I was pleasantly surprised at how good it tasted (and how light it was) and how few calories it had.

Let’s compare:

One McDonald’s Egg McMuffin has 300 calories (110 of which are from fat, with 12 total grams of fat).

One Subway Western Egg & Cheese Muffin Melt had only – get this – 160 calories (35 of which are from fat, with 4 total grams of fat)!

That’s awesome! And the best part was that it tasted like a small, light western omelete. It wasn’t as greasy or as heavy as a McDonald’s breakfast sandwich can be (sorry, Clown but it’s true) and it was pretty cheap (excuse me – inexpensive) at only $2 plus tax.

I know places like McDonald’s or Burger King offer better monetary deals on their food (which is a shame because people eat what’s cheap and it’s the bad foods that are cheap) but for the money that new Subway breakfast Muffin Melt is pretty darn good and a beatter, healthier way to enjoy a fast-food breakfast on a weight loss journey. It may not be the drive-thru at McDonald’s (hell, I don’t know any Subway that even HAS a drive-thru) but it’s worth the few extra minutes it will take you to get out of your car…

…and you’ll even burn a calorie or two walking to get it. How cool is that?!