I swear it took me twice as long to lose my baby weight last year because my weekend diet was so vastly unhealthy and different from my weekday diet. This isn'tmy fault either. Heh. I was forced to eat what I did. Kidding.
See, we get together a lot with family on weekends because we live near each other and it's always casual gatherings and there is always food.
Sometimes I can still do my morning breakfast of oatmeal with flax, brown sugar and berries. But, occasionally my husband wakes up and declares that he needs a bagel to go on living and I end up eating half of a delicious just-baked Everything Bagel with cream cheese and maybe even a little butter too because, come on, a bagel isn't a bagel with jelly or crap like that. It should be noted that this occasional bagel is consumed in addition to the oatmeal that I ate "to be healthy". Lunch is usually snacks of chips (multigrain, pita, etc) with humus and spinach dip and olive tapenade. Luckily we usually hang out outside so there is a chance to move around and burn a few calories.
Then comes dinner, cooked on the grill, sometimes hot dogs/burgers, BBQ chicken, steaks, and some variety depending on the season of fresh corn, tomatoes, baked potatoes or stewed tomatoes. Oh, yeah, there is usually a dessert too, descriptions of which I'm too ashamed to describe here.
Now that I have written that it is a wonder I managed to lose any baby weight at all. I guess living on salads and lean protein during the week really did help.
I have trouble with the weekend social occasions. How do you keep on track? Is portion control my only option, and who can eat only one pita chip?
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