Survived it all!

To say I survived the Labor Day weekend is an understatement. I think I did very well considering all the parties we had planned. I got through our first draft on Friday night with only 3 slices of pizza...2 plain and one with mushrooms (note that I did not have any of the meat lovers!) and 2 chocolate chip cookies. I don't know what it is about my new and improved lifestyle but now that I've been trying to maintain a healthy diet I actually crave the goodies that I never used to eat. Is it possible for your body to actually crave sweets? The only thing I can think of is "before" I started WW, I used to drink Pepsi like it was going out of style. Now it is rare to have any soda let alone Pepsi and I stick to my water and crystal light to go packets that I occassionally add to my water bottles. Maybe the HFCS in the pop was good enough to curb my sweet tooth. I'm not sure, but all I know is when I see brownies or chocolate chip cookies it takes everything I have not to take as much as I can hold!!

My next draft was on Sunday and I learned on Saturday that we wouldn't be having pizza. Hooray! My SIL made ham barbeques and was asking for the rest of the owners bring along something as well. There was this wonderful dish made with bow tie pasta, broccoli and chicken...not sure what it was but it was delicious. There were also plenty of dips that I avoided for the most part. I just had to "try" the buffalo cheese dip. It was a little spicy but perfect with a tortilla chip. I stuck to just 5 chips more out of worry for my IBS than my diet because of the spicy dip. I made an apple crisp with splenda's brown sugar blend and it was the perfect end.

Labor Day I didn't eat a whole lot. I ate cereal for breakfast with my family mid-morning and went to the gym shortly after. After we came home and had showers, we went to my parents for a picnic. The girls got to swim which was great because it was a hot day! Temps were in the low 90s. Mom was disappointed we weren't staying for dinner so she had prepared food for us to take home. She always has a pasta dish to complement the traditional picnic foods so she had penne already precooked as well as 2 jars of vodka sauce and pre-browned ground beef. Gotta love moms....lol. No matter how old you are they still want to take care of you.

After my parents, we went to our last stop for the day. A mutual friend was having a picnic. He's Danny's age but so far is still single and it appears he's going to stay that way for a while. He had a great BBQ with the standard foods of burgers and dogs but also a wide selection of desserts. I decided not to waste my calories on things I didn't want so I split a burger with Marisa and had fruit salad and a pudding dessert. What I really wanted was a grilled chicken breast that I knew my dad was making. Why is it that our taste buds are never happy with what is available at the time and we want something different? I talked with the others while Danny and the girls played volleyball. It was great having others playing with them so I was actually able to relax and enjoy myself. Living in a household of 4, in order to make teams fair I always have to play with them. I liked being able to sit out of the game for once and just relax.