Day 38: Listen to your Mama

I drove down to Oregon today and I will be visiting with my family for a few days. I anticipate problems. When spending time away from home, like on vacation, you will be at the mercy of either your host/family, eating out, or however well you plan ahead.

Problems especially occur around the fact that we have food-based traditions in my family, like going out to Chinese food or having pizza on Friday nights. Tonight the temptation was pizza, but I set myself up for success by following my mom's old-school advice.



Tip of the Day
Listen to your inner mama, and eat your vegetables!! Or in my case, when staring down the "loaded gun" of knowing that pizza is available, I followed my mom's advice and then some. That is, I ate my
veggies, plenty of them, and ate them all before I had one slice of pizza. I figured if I fill up on salad, then I would be satisfied with the taste of one piece of pizza without going nuts on the calories.

I thought I would cave. I seriously did, I know how I am around temptation foods like pizza. But I didn't! Woo hoo!

I went Goodwilling with my mom and found this sign. It's good to know, but I read the sign, not as a cop-out to eat because your are stressed, but to recognize the emotion that may be driving extra eating.

So today...

FOOD
Breakfast: Apple-cinnamon oatmeal
Snack: a pear and a luna bar
Lunch: beef stew and home canned pears
Snack: an apple
Dinner: my mom's "everything" salad; spinach, lettuce, chopped apples, cheese, avocado, and broccoli - a few homemade dill pickes and one slice of pizza.

EXERCISE
Due to unforeseen technical difficulties (I couldn't get my Insanity workout to play on my Ipad mini), I had to take the day off. BUT, I got all of my activity points, and was running around after my nephew and niece.

Thanks for reading all!