Poor eating stops now!
This week has certainly been a move away from my goals. A lot of unplanned eating and poor choices. As I've turned 51 recently, you'd think I'd know better. I DO know better! But I slacked anyway. However, it's time to end the goofing off and get back on track.
On my birthday, I went to the store after my workout for some needed groceries and managed to justify bringing home TWO KING SIZE CANDY BARS. And a snack pack bag of Doritos (Cool Ranch) and Cheetos (Crunchy). And ate them all at once. I didn't really even enjoy it that much. I was horrified when I finally dared to look at the nutrition labels!
Hubby brought home a couple Lindt 85% dark chocolate bars for me... he's learning! And no, I've not taken so much as a square of those yet. When I need some chocolate, I seem to have a little control with the Lindt. I can eat a square a day and keep it to that. He did however also bring home a lovely 70% dark chocolate raspberry bar... that got eaten the next day for breakfast, sigh.
I got my exercise in on my birthday... water aerobics followed by a half mile swim! And I'd planned to cook a healthy dinner. But by the time hubby got home, I was fatigued and when he suggested going out to dinner, I was ready to jump aboard that train! We settled on going to the Wildhorse buffet. Yeah, there's another bright choice!
However, as it turned out, the buffet was not to be. I got there, we'd actually paid our entrance, been seated, had ordered water and diet soda and were about to load our plates. As I looked over the buffet, I just didn't see much for protein choices that I liked. It was steak, steak, steak and more steak and fried chicken and fried shrimp. OK... I love fried shrimp, but I didn't want to eat ONLY that! And the steak looked fatty and greasy and was not appealing at all. Nor did there seem to be many vegetable dishes. Baked beans, potatoes, rice, mac n' cheese and other starchy fare, yes. It just wasn't my day. We've been there when it has been much better.
I turned to my husband and said that I couldn't eat. And we went to the register and told them that today's fare just wasn't what we were planning on and that we wanted to cancel. So they did. We did leave a tip for their trouble!
Then, as we had never tried the Wildhorse's fine dining restaurant, Plateau, we decided that would be fun. This time we looked at the posted menu first before proceeding! However, once I saw that they had steelhead trout with fiddlehead ferns, morel mushrooms and fingerling potatoes, hubby would've had to have dragged me away! It's been a long time since I've had fiddlehead ferns and I've never had the trout or morels. Suffice to say all was good, very good! Though it was clear that there was no sparing the butter in the preparation of the dishes! We had salads before dinner, I had a lovely spinach and watercress salad with salmon pastrami, red onions, bacon and sliced strawberries. Delicious! And the steelhead trout was wonderful, the combination of fiddleheads and morels absolute heaven!
At any rate, it seems like most of the week I've been off track with my eating... but today, I'm getting back on my onward rolling wagon.
Leanward, HO!
