SO...i was at a memorial day cookout today. available food included:
pasta salad (did have a few peas, but not even really a good flavor -- i shared mine w/ my husband after 1 bite)
bbq turkey keilbasa
plain turkey keilbasa
hot dog/white bun
cheeseburger/white bun (store-bought, pre-made patties from the meat case of supermarket)
carrot cake w/ raisins & homemade cream chesse frosting
pita chips (Stacey's), potato chips (Cape Cod), crackers
Whipped cream cheese/chive
onion sour cream dip
& another onion dip that was similar to the dip that comes with Bloomin' Onion at Outback
um...yeah...so i ate way too much. Haven't had that much crap food for a loooong time (so maybe i'm making more progress than the scale shows). I had pita chips but probably 2 portions by the time i was through & a LOT of the spicy onion dip that happened to end up on the table next to me outside. also potato chips (but stopped after about 10 because they just didn't taste as good to me as i remembered. i was feeling yucky from carb/processed food overload), 1 piece (1/4 of a link) bbq keilbasa, 1/2 cheeseburger (with yellow american cheese - probably not from the deli case...can you say processed!).
And, even though i don't love carrot cake, i had a piece...and then another small piece while sitting in the kitchen talking. It was so moist & the frosting was...wow...but as soon as i ate it, i felt the sugar bleh setting in.
Clearly my body & now my mind did not like what i was eating today. not a single fruit or veggie. there were lettuce leaves for the burgers on the table, but not what i wanted at the time. I thought maybe we'd have the traditional strawberry shortcake for dessert - fresh berries maybe...but not this year. i know those are loaded with sugar, etc. when we do have them but still...no berries. no watermelon. no veggies with dinner.
All of this in a family where 3 of us are actively trying to lose weight (or should be), 1 diabetic, 1 with all sorts of health issues, 1 who had a heart attack this spring, 1 who tries to avoid bread/eat "well," and 3 kids under the age of 5.
It is an uphill battle when THIS is the food scene that greets us at a family gathering.
