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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 li