Breakfast was always cereal, usually shredded wheat with banana. Why? Because it's virtually sodium-free, not to mention it's a whole-grain cereal. So when breakfast is shredded wheat with skim milk, we're way ahead of the game. If we have a bit too much salt eating lunch out, it averages out all right for the day.
One meal a day, usually the noon meal, we bought out... and got whatever we wanted. After all, it's vacation. The day we were in Silverton, Cliff had a hot roast beef sandwich with potatoes and gravy, and I had a Reuben sandwich. One day, our meal out was a Subway Spicy Chicken Terriyaki sub. Great on the calories, terrible on sodium.
The only meal we ate out Saturday was a medium Pizza Hut pizza, delivered to our motel after a days hard driving and riding. And yes, we ate the whole thing, dividing it exactly in half. Sunday we split a 16-ounce steak and each had a sinfully huge baked potato loaded with butter and sour cream, then followed that with a piece of coconut cream pie, also shared between the two of us.
Most evenings in the motel, we enjoyed a huge salad. It was rather difficult hauling all the makings of salad around Colorado with us, but we pulled it off.
The thing about our eating plan is this: We can have anything we want to eat... we just can't have it often. And knowing we don't have to say, "I can NEVER have steak, pie, ice cream or whatever..." makes it easy for us to stay on track most of the time.
1 comment:
I think you ate sensibly while you were on vacation; too many of us use vacation as an excuse to fall off the wagon, but to me it seems like you planned wisely, allowed for a few treats here and there and still tried to eat healthy other times of the day. That's great!
It probably also helped that you had a lot of activities that included walking as well as your normal daily walks. I know when we went to Washington D.C. last year and I was dieting, I stayed on plan for breakfast and lunch, deviated a bit for dinner and we walked everywhere so I managed to lose 3.5 pounds.
first time commenting in this journal; I think its neat you set up a journal like this to help others who are trying to eat healthy especially after going through surgery or perhaps even before surgery would be contemplated to avoid it.
betty
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