Today I will put myself to the test.  Our neighborhood picnic is tonight.  I have to bring a dessert.  The only thing in my fridge dessert worthy is a premade-roll of Pillsburry Chocolate Chip cookies.  Easy, but unhealthy.  I decided against dragging the kids to the market to get something else. Will I be able to resist raw cookie dough?  yes.  Will I be able to resist warm and gooey chocolate chip cookies?  That, I don’t know.  I go through my day pumped about the diet and thinking about how I will fill up at the picnic.  Salads, fruit, grilled chicken, passing on the white bun if there is one, etc.  Well.  If only my imagination came true.  There was only one healthy thing there: frozen fruit.  ick.  I’m all for frozen fruit in a smoothie, but defrosted and slimy fruit?  No thanks.  I fed the kids, and had one fried drumstick as my cheat.  I was so annoyed by the fact that there was nothing healthy there, I didn’t want to eat anything at all.  My cookies were a hit, even with the grease soaking through a double-bagged lunch bag.

food journal

SATURDAY
Breakfast:
1C coffee w/ 1T ½ & ½ and splenda
1 hard boiled egg
I don’t like to eat a big breakfast before I work out so I don’t cramp or feel weighted down.  I’ll generally have a cup of coffee at 7am, get the kids dressed, then eat a hard boiled egg on my way out the door at 8:15.

Snack:
1/3 Protein Shake: (my kids wanted some), 1 scoop chocolate whey protein, 1 banana, 2T pecan chips, 1C milk, Ice

Lunch:
3/4 C Leftover Chicken Salad Salad: 1 C lettuce, 1/2 large tomato, 1/4 avocado
1C leftover couscous

Snack:
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait: 1/2 C FF vanilla yogurt, 1/2 C raspberries, 1/2 C strawberries, 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Snack: (neighborhood picnic.  I had to bring dessert: chocolate chip cookies)
1 fried chicken drumstick (using a cheat, checked off cheat and carb)

OK, so I had my snack not too long before we went, and there was nothing healthy there aside from frozen fruit (yuck!), so while there, I debated what to eat.  I settled on one drumstick because I knew I still had all 3 cheats left. 

Dinner:
1 frozen Weight Watchers Meal: Chicken Santa Fe
1 glass cabernet (using a cheat)

Snack:
Just a note, in case you noticed, this is my 4th snack of the day.  When you are hungry, you should eat.  Just choose a small portion of something healthy. 
½ bag light popcorn
Diet Pepsi

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