the weekend....

I had a blast on vacation this weekend! It was such a great time of relaxing and enjoying my kids and visiting with girlfriends. It makes me sad sometimes that it only happens once a year. :(

But, in other news, my food and activity levels did great! We did in fact hit the Italian place, where I split the lasagna with my mother and did not order the house salad and homemade garlic bread that usually goes along with it. And, because my mom and I sent the guys home with the trailer while we went shopping, I did not go to the burger joint at all. We did end up eating dinner at Applebee's, but I still stayed well within my calorie range for the day! Yes!!

On Saturday afternoon, we walked uptown and checked out the shops. One of which is this amazing small town style candy shop. I usually get a bag of candy that lasts for a couple days. This weekend, I got one salted caramel truffle, ate half of it and gave the other half to my husband. It tasted delicious. I wanted it, got it, enjoyed the flavor, but was okay with just the bite. I'm sure that won't always be the case, but it worked this time. Same with the birthday cake we had that afternoon. It looked delicious. So I used a fork to get one yummy bite out of his piece and was satisfied with that. The cake tasted even better than it looked, but rather than eat a plate full of it, I got to sample the taste with about 1/15 of the calories. And I didn't feel guilty either time. The guilt is probably even better progress than the food itself. I ate healthy, energizing food for all other meals and those few treats were just that. Treats. That I enjoyed.

So, of my 5 goals for the weekend, I accomplished all of them. I work up at 6:30 both mornings and went walking for an hour. Had a great time with my family. Ate well. Absolutely enjoyed my italian food. And only ate 1 thing out of the candy buckets.

I consider this weekend a complete success!