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My birthday is tomorrow. I’ll be 69. I LOVE German Chocolate Cake with Coconut-Pecan Frosting on the top, sides, and between the layers of the cake! There’s nowhere I can buy just a slice of that cake. One slice (1/12th of a 2-layer cake) is 405 calories. The local specialty bakery sells just such a cake at Kroger, and they are supposed to be getting in two of them before opening tomorrow at 7am. If I get it, I WILL eat half of that cake (at best, over the next six days). That’s over 2,400 calories - but it takes about 3,000 excess calories to create one pound of weight gain. Should I indulge? For SIX days? (Having one slice and freezing the rest is not an option - I have been known to eat frozen cake!). Ok, you’ve got until 7am EDT on 6/20 to “weigh in” with your opinion. I really could go either way at this moment.
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1640 kcal
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Fat: 76.86g | Prot: 54.78g | Carbs: 188.31g.
Breakfast: Butter, Domino Sugar Granulated Sugar, Great Value Sun-Dried Raisins, A2 2% Milk, Pecan Nuts, Quaker Old Fashioned Oats. Lunch: Kroger Finely Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Atkins Frozen Beef Merlot, Cooked Green String Beans (Fat Added in Cooking). Dinner: Cooked Immature Lima Beans (from Fresh, Fat Added in Cooking). Snacks/Other: Land O'Lakes Salted Butter, Nature's Own Brioche Style Butter Rolls, Keebler Chips Deluxe Cookies Chocolate Lovers (1), Rold Gold Pretzel Sticks, Cantaloupe Melons, Fritos Flavor Twists Honey BBQ (Package), Honeydew Melons, Hershey's Kit Kat. more...
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If you are not diabetic then enjoy it! Daily, then you could learn to potion control desserts. Then it no longer becomes out of the equation. And you are right 3500 excess to 1lb of fat. However carbs will carry water weight as well as sodium
19 Jun 23 by member: Supergainz1
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19 Jun 23 by member: judy1056
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Are you planning to have a special birthday meal as well? That could also add up to additional calories you need to think about. I eat dessert but I don't eat cake every night. Some nights my dessert is lower calorie. Here's my suggestion. Plan meals for the 5 days after your birthday to be at least 200 calories lower than usual. Eat more veggies or fruit. Have chicken or fish instead of beef....they're lower calorie. Eat salads with lower calorie ingredients. If you reduce your daily calories by 200 × 5 days, that's only 1400 calories extra. And by all means, you can't have other sweet treats. The cake is it, till it's gone.
19 Jun 23 by member: SherryeB
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Happy Birthday to you! What? The Franklin Nut Cake is no longer the cake of your least resistance? :) Since you've asked us to weigh in on this, (no pun intended), I would say it's called a birthday cake for a reason. Otherwise, it would be called a birthweek cake ;) Whatever you choose, enjoy it with no regrets.
19 Jun 23 by member: losingtowin1
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How about sharing with your church family at coffee hour? Buy it now, have your slice & freeze most til Saturday (when you’ve promised yourself that you will share) or wait til Saturday to buy. My hubby and I splurged on desserts Saturday night when we ate out. Shared one piece of obscenely delicious peach pie with ice cream that night, and a piece of cheesecake for breakfast on Sunday. We never do that but it was worth it. Today I am up 0.4 lb but not concerned. You’ve gotten really good at managing your calorie budget, btw! So whatever you decide I hope you have a fabulous day!
19 Jun 23 by member: RhumbaGirl
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Happy birthday! My vote is no unless you have your slice and give rest of cake away asap!💜
19 Jun 23 by member: Diana 1234
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I’ll just say, “Happy Birthday Debbie”!🎈
19 Jun 23 by member: MaryAnnB1948
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19 Jun 23 by member: thsiun
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Have a very happy birthday! 🎉🥳🎂🎈🎁
19 Jun 23 by member: JanieSaisQuoi
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19 Jun 23 by member: Kennyn27
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Yearofhealth2023, good motto. I’ve had 68 other birthdays - most of which have involved German Chocolate Cake - enough to last me a lifetime. Good perspective!
akpiper21, thanks for the birthday wishes.
Suzelite, I like the idea of sharing my birthday treat. Thankfully, church is the day after my birthday, and we have just about as many people there at the Wednesday morning service as there will be additional pieces of cake. Will take a lot of willpower to give away, but the temptation will be gone after one day - not SIX!
19 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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Debbie you’ve got this. Think how great you will feel the day after your birthday with your choice if you choose strawberries instead on your birthday. A present of better health to yourself!!!! Just a thought
19 Jun 23 by member: Yearofhealth2023
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HB. I too love German Chocolate Cake, but the strawberry idea is a good one. Birthdays keep aging us, but the cake brings back the old saying, Eat it today Wear it tomorrow.
19 Jun 23 by member: 1Manlight
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1Manlight, I think that if I don’t have at least one piece of GC Cake, I will eat everything else in sight trying to fill that void. Oddly enough, if they don’t HAVE the cake at the store, I’ll probably survive just fine.
19 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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WOW! So many comments! Yearofhealth2023, it sounds like you’re debating about this almost as much as I am, lol.
Supergainz1, about portion control: maybe instead of cutting the cake into 12 slices, I could cut it into 16. Then each slice would “only” be 304 calories instead of 405 - and I could share with more people.
judy1056, almost sure now that I am going to give part away.
SherryeB, yes, I’m using a gift card to get Outback for my birthday meal. I’ll eat half of the 6-oz filet Mignon and the side salad with ranch dressing on Tuesday and have the other half of the steak with the loaded baked potato on Wednesday.
20 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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losingtowin1, the Franklin Nut cake is more of a Thanksgiving or especially Christmas seasonal cake (although I will probably make one for my husband’s uncle for his birthday in July). MIGHT be able to give him the whole cake.
bearnoggin, unfortunately, there aren’t many non-food indulgences that excite me. There kinda is another reason to celebrate, too, as on 6/23 I will have been logging my food every day for a year and either losing or maintaining during all that time!
20 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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sandyeg, Judy1056, RhumbaGirl, Doana1234, MaryAnnB1948, peggyerickson5, thsiun, JanieSaisQuoi, Kennyn27 (and anyone else I’ve missed, thank you for the birthday wishes!
honeebuns, yes, I DO try to fit some kind of “dessert” and/or crunchy snacks into every day. For me, I’ve found that the “all or nothing” approach doesn’t work. If I totally deprive myself, I’m good until I make ONE “bad” choice, then I throw the whole diet out the window and am off the rails for months. I know that “my plan” won’t work for everybody, but it seems to be working for me, as I’ve lost over 65 pounds since 6/23/22.
20 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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Penderg, trouble101, Kennyn27, thanks for the input and birthday wishes.
20 Jun 23 by member: Debbie Cousins
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Have a very happy Birthday 🥳🎂
20 Jun 23 by member: Aprilwalk
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Happy Birthday 🎂! My sister-in-law loves cake, and she will have a piece of cake and skip dinner. That’s how she would handle the calorie count. One would need a lot of willpower to stick to a small slice of cake instead of having dinner and cake, but she would do it. Personally, I would eat a slice of cake for 6 days and would attempt to keep within my daily calorie count, but probably wouldn’t be able to do that. I love food too much. To be good, it would be best to give the rest of the cake away, like others have suggested, but on the other hand, life is short. 😆 I say enjoy the cake and then get back on track as soon as possible.
20 Jun 23 by member: Cammy Jo
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