Forbidden food

I spent most of today hanging out with my mom and sister, ya know, just cleaning up around the house, getting everything together for our vacation, playing with the puppy, watching Spongebob... the usual. We don't leave till 6am tomorrow morning, so Gi and I finally got a chance to work out again. I would not have done two miles on the elliptical with my mom this afternoon if I had known we were going to leave tomorrow, I would have saved all my energy for our evening basement workout. But oh well, it made me feel better about what I ate for dinner (to be mentioned later.)

And now, the usual food log. I decided to skip out on the delicious-smelling bacon and fried eggs my mom made and stick to oatmeal with skim milk and Splenda, an apple, and a 3/4 of a cup of instant cappuccino (delicious, but not something I'll have every morning... not worth the extra calories.) For lunch I had an amazing buffalo blue chicken wrap from Wawa (364 calories, not bad!), and for dinner... well... we ordered Chinese food. I know, I know, it's worse than the pizza I ate last night. But I only had a small bowl of hot and sour soup, a tiny helping of white rice (I resisted the pork fried rice to my amazement), four pieces of general's chicken and a few forkfuls of shrimp lomein... and that was more than enough. I even had a stomach ache when I was done eating it... I probably should have had salad instead of white rice, but oh well.

Now let me be clear. Chef Chun's is the gold standard of Chinese food in my opinion. I find myself craving it constantly, especially on Mondays when they're closed. I usually not only LOAD my plate with insane helpings of shrimp lomein, pork fried rice, general's chicken, and beef with broccoli... but I almost always go for seconds. This time, I chose to eat about half of what I would go for in a single serving, and it proved to fill me up PLENTY. I am beginning to believe that most of my problem is not what I eat, it's how much I eat. Just by simply changing my portion sizes I can lose SO much weight. Of course I want to shift towards healthier food and away from pizza and cheesesteak and Chinese food as regular fixtures... but there's nothing wrong with having the "forbidden" stuff sparingly and in VERY small portions. You only live once!

After our workout tonight we treated ourselves to 60 calorie mango fruit bars... and oh my dear sweet God, they are the most amazing popsicles I've EVER eaten. I can't believe how healthy they are, it's just unreal. I'm happy to realize that healthy alternatives to the crappy foods we enjoy are everywhere, we just need to look for them.

Three things I'm thankful for today:

-Wawa for having healthy food! Yay!
-Those mango fruit bars for being absurdly delicious
-Staying an extra day before leaving for New York. Glad I got to see Gi before I left!