First off, baby steps. I've done this a thousand times and I have tried over the years to manufacture some plan that works with me, my thought process, and my life. I'm not an all or nothing type of person, apparently, when it comes to eating healthy. Oddly I am in other aspects of my life.
So this week my goal was to plan healthy meals and eat as many of them as I could. I knew I had two dinners out in which I'd be faced with making a smart choice.
I successfully ate my planned lunches and dinners this week. Feeling good about making smart, healthy choices about my dinners and lunches and a few snacks. When you're prepared with good stuff to eat, you eat good stuff.
Then there was the eating out. On Tuesday we had our dinner club and we went to a restaurant called the Islander on Mercer Island. It was my pick and I picked it primarily because they had a turkey dip sandwich. The photos looked so good I just knew I had to try it.
The bad: I did have it and had onion rings with it. Now granted I didn't eat the entire sandwich but that was really because it wasn't that great.
The good: after dinner it was decided to go have ice cream. I was stuffed and knew if I went I'd eat ice cream. So I bowed out and went for a walk/jog instead when I got home. One small victory.
The second eating out happened last night. I went to Seattle SIL's house to help her and Blueberry get prepared for the garage sale they're having today and tomorrow. I knew we'd be eating out after. Seattle SIL and I went to a local brewery around 8pm. Now, that's LATE for me to eat. I'm usually a 5pm or 5:30 kinda girl. So I was starving.
My normal MO is I'm starving and therefore must eat...a lot. Instead, I asked Seattle SIL if she wanted to split one of the sandwiches. Naturally she was all for it. So 1/2 a sandwich and fries. Again, a small victory for me. I know the right decision was to order something healthier and maybe no eat the fries. BUT I also know I'm a fry kinda girl.
At the end of the week I'm feeling good about most my decisions. Yes, there are improvements that could be made. And Yes, I plan on making them. But for me I really need to find a way to eat healthy and still enjoy the foods I love. I know, logically, I will never lose as much weight as I need to with this thought process. But it's not about losing weight to me. Yes that's a by product of healthy eating and working out, rather for me it's about being healthier. Every right choice I make, makes me healthier.
I just know the diet gurus would have a field day with that theory.
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