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Is it ok that I just ate cake?

So. I just had a lot of cake...I love cake. My roomates made pumpkin cake from scratch and it was amazing. It was about like every other kind cake as far as ingredients go, so I am going to go ahead and say each piece I had was roughly 300 calories. I had two pieces. So. 600 calories. Now ... this sounds really bad since I am watching what I eating and exercising everything. BUT here is the thing...Before the cake I was only at 1000 calories for the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, a couple snacks), and they were very healthy calories of whole wheat bread, skim milk, vegetables, and fruit. I also did 45 minutes of cardio tonight. In a day I usually aim for between 1300 and 1600 calories (that is my recommended amount for losing weight). SO my question is...is it ok that I ate this cake? Since it has so much oil, refined white flour and sugar, could I sitll  gain weight from it even though I it didn't bring my calorie count above my daily goal? I should probably figure this out so that I don't continue making this error if it is indeed harmful to my diet! Thanks.

A couple of pieces of cake that are within your calorie goal are probably not going to prevent you from losing weight.  Is it the healthiest way to go?  Probably not.  But, if having a bit of cake every now and then helps keep you from wanting to go crazy on the kitchen, then I don't think it is a major problem. 

Personally, I made a pumpkin cake last week and factored a piece in to my diet for a few days.  Still lost weight; world didn't come crashing down!