Yesterday (Jan 16), I went into the torture chamber, as far as trying to keep on a diet is concerned–I went to my mom’s. Not only is she an excellent cook, but she likes to bake all sorts of sweets, and *always* has something on hand. Usually when I’m there, I eat without thinking–if it looks good, I’ll eat it; or if I think about it, I’ll eat it; or if I happen to be going through the freezer and see a bag of cookies or candies, I’ll eat one or two–you get the picture. But I didn’t eat any sweets while I was there!!! Triumph! I did eat too much for lunch, but ended up not going over my calories because I had a low-cal breakfast and wasn’t hungry for much supper (which is, like, a first for me). All in all, I’m feeling pretty good.

I wasn’t hungry when I fixed my kids something to eat for supper, so just made them PB&Js, and *boy* did I want to eat some peanut butter! But I wasn’t hungry, so I didn’t eat any. Another triumph! (I did eat what spilled out over the sides when I broke it into pieces–but I *had* to, to keep my kids from making a big mess.)

I didn’t do a full video, but did most of my Daisy Fuentes aerobics video before my husband came home, when I stopped. So all in all, it was a pretty good day.

Considering how much worse it could have been–how bad it usually is!–I’m quite pleased. I took food to eat at my mom’s, but then she was making her fresh home-made buns and had hamburger meat she needed to use, so we had grilled hamburgers–absolutely delicious. I made mine smaller than I normally would, but didn’t skimp on the cheese or ketchup. My sister was there and she fried chicken strips and french fries. I steadfastly resisted the urge to eat them, and ate my bean dip instead. Then I ate my hamburger when it was done. Then, sad to say, I did have a few french fries and a piece of chicken. The french fries were mostly off of my younger son’s plate–he was grumpy and wouldn’t eat, and I didn’t want to waste them; but the chicken was all my own doing. When I got home and figured out how many calories I had eaten, I was shocked to discover it was nearly 1,000! How was that possible?! Yet, thinking that normally I would have had another bun or two (with butter and/or cheese–and the buns are about 120 calories apiece, plus whatever butter or cheese would have been), plus at least one cookie and probably more sweets I normally would consume, and a larger hamburger, and at least another chicken strip and probably a full side of fries, I probably ate about half the calories I normally would have eaten there! And if I hadn’t been watching my calories, I probably would have had a much more caloric breakfast, and eaten a full supper regardless of my actual hunger.

As I said before, Triumph!