Celebrating a mini victory

Hello all,

As you have read before sometimes portion control or lack of portion control can be a problem. My biggest issue is getting enough food in before dinner time so that I'm not putting my body into starvation mode. But there are days where you go out to a nice sit down meal and over eat.

So today I made myself proud. A co-worker and I went to a local pasta restaurant. I didn't do my normal thing of having 3-5 bread sticks, salad, all my meal, and dessert. Today I ordered Chicken Parmesan which comes with salad and bread sticks. I started with a big serving of salad. Eating all that I could only ate 1/2 a bread stick with it. Then when my meal came out I cut it in half, Thinking "Hey if I split this in half I won't have that icky full feeling and then I'll have this for lunch tomorrow:)". I did eat the half a bread stick and a additional one for a total of 2. Then when we were done I happily had the waiter wrap up the rest of my meal with 2 bread sticks and called it good. What did I do differently you ask? Before I went in I told myself that I will eat more veggies and half my meal. I wouldn't need the dessert because I had a raspberry lemonade instead (only drank half). I told myself that, that was ENOUGH for me to survive for this meal. That I didn't need to over do it.

Now.... the mini challenge is to do this at every take out meal. Know that places give you 2-3X the portion size you should be having. Take that extra minute to relax, separate your food or draw a line visually and DON'T eat past that.
It's hard... but I will win this fight.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Probably not going to blog much. No new weightloss updates just preparing for the holiday season. Spending as much time with my husband as possible. Good friends, Good Family, and thanking god everyday I get to remain on this earth to be in these peoples lives.

Merry Christmas everyone!