Cocktail Parties and Staying on Your Diet

First day of food logging paid off, as I knew ahead of the holiday cocktail party what I still had left to work with.
Here was my food log through lunch:

Monday:	Calories	Protein
4 oz OJ with greens	30
2 cups coffee with  cream/sugar	140
1 slice orowheat 12grain/almond butter	211	6.4
gala apple	77
panettone bread 1/2 piece	70

528 calories through lunch, leaving me about a thousand calories for the rest of the day.  I chose the protein rich nibbles at the cocktail party and had two 5 oz glasses of wine and a small piece of leftover pumpkin pie when I got home so that my total day looked like this:

Monday:	Calories	Protein
4 oz OJ with greens	30
2 cups coffee with  cream/sugar	140
1 slice orowheat 12grain/almond butter	211	6.4
gala apple	77
panettone bread 1/2 piece	70
7 jumbo shrimp	100	18
cocktail sauce	60
2 glasses of chardonnay	240
two pieces of bread and cheese	85	4
mussels in tomato sauce	194	26.9
blue cheese stuffed olive	25
small slice pumpkin pie	229	4.3
total	1461	59.6

I know that every day is not going to line up like this one did, but I felt very satisfied--I got to eat the things that I wanted and stayed on my calorie budget.