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Surviving The Weekend - Food Diary - June 9th

Weekends are so challenging to stay on the healthy eating bandwagon! Who else finds it hard as well?

I do have some little tips for myself and others to help them survive the weekend without accumulating HUGE amounts of calories like our husbands can without batting an eyelid!

If you go out to a restaurant for breakfast and you can not say no to a good old fashioned eggs on toast, bacon and hash browns kind of breakfast do the following:

  • ask for brown DRY toast (This means NO butter! Your are getting the added benefit of a little more fiber and less refined carbs as compared to white toast and also your dropping the added calories that butter adds)
  • eat one slice of toast. (I can't have over easy eggs without toast, NO WAYS! :) )
  • only eat half the amount of hash browns (if you MUST take the rest to go and give to someone else).
  • No pancakes. I know it's tough but I only eat them maybe once every two to three months as a treat.
  • OTHERWISE go for an egg white omelet with light or no cheese. (Most breakfast restaurants have a healthy option menu...in the VERY back of the menu...I wonder why? :P )
If you go to a restaurant for lunch or dinner:

  • Go with chicken or fish and stay away from pasta's and red meat. Chicken and fish are great lean meats with good protein.
  • Order your meal but ask right away if the waiter could split the meal in half and take the other half to go. This helps by making sure you eat proportionately. Most restaurants give really unnecessarily big portions.
  • Do not eat any bread-like appetizers. (I found this the though est one!)
  • Only drink water! Save money and calories!
  • No desert! ( :'( No this is definitely the though est one)
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Snacks & Treats:

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:

STOP eating after SEVEN PM!

Food Diary:
Breakfast (10:00am):
- 1 piece of sprouted grains toast with scrambled eggs and 1 quarter of a European large sausage.
- half a glass of green fruit smoothie
- ester-c and vitamin D supplements


Lunch:
- Wor Wonton Soup with udon noodles, wontons, broccoli and carrots.


Went to a AWESOME movie & got my nails done!


Snack:
-Starbucks strawberry & cream frap made with skim milk and no whip


Dinner (7:30pm):
Greek Food!
- Calamari with one pita, half a potato, little bit of Greek salad, 3 tablespoons of rice and of course tzatziki sauce

I said NO to desert (Greek Ekmek) and NO to popcorn and treats at the movies!
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