Weekend Off

 October 8-9, 2016 MENU

Well I took the weekend off.  I didn't log my food in my diary until Sunday night.  Saturday was a cheat day.  I had 2 birthday parties to attend.  I started my day working around the house at 7am and I finished my day getting home at 11pm.  I was very active all day.  According to the Fitbit tracker I had done 13,000 steps.  For breakfast and lunch I had done pretty good.  My mom bought this turkey ham and I tasted a little bit of it.  You know it wasn't bad.  It didn't taste as salty as regular ham.  I started the party train at 1pm.  I had a small piece of cake at one party and a cupcake at the other.  Then at each party I tasted a little of everything.  Like, one I had a half cup of jambalaya, one chicken wing and 2 meatballs.  The other party I only had 3 meatballs.   Then late that evening I just couldn't help myself.  The kids wanted to go to Wendy's for a chocolate frosty.  Well I got me one.  You know I could have done a Jr. frosty for 105 calories, but it was my cheat day.  I got the usual medium frosty that weighed in at a whopping 460 calories.  WHAT!!!   Ok so in the future if it is not a cheat day, Jr. frosty it is lol.  I finished Saturday with a total of 1888 calories for the day.  That was way over my calories by 558.   It was my cheat day.  Things could have been much worse.  I could of had bigger servings at each.  I did pretty good.  Sunday I tried to eat light.  For breakfast we squished some biscuits on a pan and made like a pizza with the turkey ham, cheese, mushrooms and sauted onions.  Lunch I wanted to BBQ pork and sausage.  I was going to steam some cauliflower to go with it.  Well my mom got in on the cooking action and made a white gravy to go on top of the cauliflower.  She also made a pea salad with cheese and mayo.  Ugh....  Then my great aunt came for coffee.  I drank a cup with her.  Between the coffee, cauliflower gravy and the pea salad it added 189 calories to my menu.  See I knew what was for supper and was trying to keep the calories down.  Supper was a hot dog at youth group with chili on top and a slice of cake.  Well I ended the day with 1508 calories.  That was over 178 calories.  Well if I could have sustained from the sauce on my cauliflower, the peas salad my mom made and the afternoon coffee I would have been under.  Oh well I already consumed it all.  By the time I calculated all my meals for it was late Sunday night.  I have had a busy few day's and wrote this blog a few day's late.  I have to tell you even though I went over my calories my weight stayed at 199 because I was very active.  So if you do see yourself eating more than needed get your mojo going and get active.  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating

Angell