My hubby's family are Lebanese and they LOVE their food. It's not terrible food, but they love lots of it and my mother in law loves to feed us up. She is consistently offering us more food, even if we have just had eaten. She is also consistently, shoving more food down my kids throat, despite if it is healthy or not. Her philosophy is basically, "as long as they are eating". I guess it is her way of showing that she cares and wants to show her love through food. It's her thing.
But lucky for me, today was a surprise visit and Isabelle hadn't had time to prepare a huge lunch. Even though she started pulling out pots and pans and was prepared to go and do a big cook up so we could have a late lunch, I was able to convince her not to worry and that we could just have leftovers. The kids usually only have sandwiches or wraps for lunch anyway.
I looked at what she had on offer and was able to make myself a 2 roast pork and cheese sandwich. Isabelle did try and convince me to eat more, "You are eating for 2 you know Mel" (Roll the eyes) but I stood strong and replied that I had enough, but at the same time I was thinking I had overeaten, having 2 sandwiches. Lucky for me, I had only had 2 boiled eggs and a coffee for breakfast.
I did also finish lunch with a Cadbury mini Easter egg. I felt bad about this at first, especially because I felt I had overeaten already, but then told myself, it's only 1 egg, enjoy it.
As the day proceeded, I drank cups of tea and had cheese and biscuits for afternoon tea, but I limited myself on how much I ate and enjoyed what I did eat, ensuring that I was satisfied.
Then we left later then expected, so on the way home we pulled through, dare I say it, Maccas! This is another challenge I will take on soon, not to allow the Family to eat fast food! Anyway, I didn't order anything for myself. Instead, I had a selection of fruit. However, I did eat 5 Mcbites and a handful of chips. Even though this wasn't the best choice, it is still an achievement for me, as I was able to limit myself.
Anyway, once I put the kids to bed, I sat down and added up all my calories (I use my fitness pal) and to my surprise, I was under my daily intake by 150 calories!!!!!!
Oh and to top it off, the whole reason we went to the in laws was to pick up a pallet of bricks that we had there left over from when we built our house. The hubby is backyard blitzing atm and needed the extra bricks to brick up our garden beds. So I was standing there watching him load the first 4 bricks up, when all of a sudden I thought to myself,
"Why are you standing her watching? Get in there and help out! You won't have time to get to the gym tonight, so use this as your chance to burn some calories!!!!!"
What the hell was that? I actively thought about how I could burn calories!!!!!!
I got in there and 2 bricks at a time loaded the ute up! At a guess I would have burnt between 200-250 calories! I was stocked with myself, as at that stage I was a little down on myself for over eating at lunch time. I am loving the small changes that are occurring in my way of thinking!
So even though there where some choices that weren't the best, I did the best with what was on offer, and thought of ways I could counteract these choices and I was able to surprise myself!
Feeling rather empowered at the moment :D
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| Actually, I hope that somewhere in the next WEEK, you surprise yourself! |
Cheers Mel x
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