How Bad Did You Do Yesterday?

It was a very small gathering - only me and my youngest, and my sister and her oldest.  I brought my food scale over to show my niece how little I eat.  I had 2 oz of turkey with a tiny dab of gravy, a couple bites of greens, a couple bites of plain baked sweet potato, and my splurge - a bite of garlic parmesan biscuit.  No alcohol.  It didn't even hurt my niece's feelings that I passed on her homemade apple pie, because she's a nursing student and part-time zumba instructor who's really into fitness.

We spent a lot more time playing games together than eating, so it was a lot of fun!

"We spent a lot more time playing games together than eating, so it was a lot of fun!"

That is really nice Milly. Great that your time together was not all about the food. Love that.

I'm pretty pleased with myself.  I ate turkey, cottage cheese, and 4 olives.  Later when it was time for desert, I did have an almost see through sliver of pumpkin spice cake.  I did plan on eating this. 

The only thing I ate, that I had planned to stay far away from was a roll.  My MIL bought these little mini sweet rolls, and as hard as I tried, and I made it until 8 last night, I had to have one.  It would have kept me up all night talking in my head.  So I ate it.  The scale was still down 2 pounds this morning, and I'll be making an extra trip to the gym this coming week, but all in all, I'm pretty pleased.

I did very well.  No sides, no dessert, no alcohol, as per my plan.  I ate 2.5 ounces of chicken breast with an ounce of ham because the numbers worked better for me that way, but that ounce of ham provided a nice taste of it.  It was difficult to cook without tasting, but my husband kept hanging around the kitchen and bravely volunteered to do that for me.  :)