tough weekend, food-wise

My folks came in for the weekend holiday..got here Friday.. they are 70 and 85. Both are excellent 'Southern' cooks. This was the first tough weekend for me, food wise, since my surgery... I overdid it on Cold Stone Creamery Sinless SF ice cream, I don't know what the sugar alcohol content is, but it's supposed to be made with Splenda, but boy it messed me up and I had to go to bed for 2 hours. Then yesterday, I had a SF Milano cookie and jello and cool whip lite, and bam! it hit me again. Then I ate a bit too much at dinner (steak on the grill, 1/2 c baked potato, 1/4 cup cabbage) and I ate too much of it. Being around my parents seems to cause me to fall back on bad habits. I've really learned I have to stand tall and stay true to what I know works for me. When it's just me and DH around the house, I don't have too much trouble sticking to the 'right' things. Anyone else have trouble this weekend with all the candy and food and family around?

Sounds like you paid the price for not listening.... to the "rules". All week I looked at that mickey mouse ice cream and repeated " I don't want to spend the day in the bathroom" so I was a good girl. Yesterday I had some ham, a spoonful of potato salad , carrots and broccli. I also baked a coconut cream pie for hubby and no body had any of it. Last night I had a snack bag of popcorn. ( I think my only downfall) Since we went away this week I didn't get any Easter candy. Nobody in the house eats it anyway so I'm good.... Have a good day. Sandy

My problem came with some pound cake. I had about 3 bites of it, and it didn't "mess" me up, but I snuck it...like I did pre-surgery...trying to hide how much I was eating. When my dh saw some of it missing, I immediately fessed up, because I don't want to start doing that. He did a great thing at dinner last night and stopped me from ordering fried food and got me to order grilled! He is a great cheerleader/patrol for me!!! You weren't the only one who struggled this weekend...let's just start anew again today! ~~em

Problems with candy NOPE, BUT problems with mashed potatoes YUP. I have a hard time eating meat. I'm usually alone for dinner (hubby works 6pm to 6am) so usually eat fish. No one else really likes fish, so I make fresh ham (not smoked) couldn't swallow it so I ate mashed potatoes lots of mashed potatoes, and fruit. I actually gained a pound. I know logically, I couldn't really gain a pound, but there it is on the scale................. Well we're human - it happens. It's Monday and I'm back on track!!! Micha

Heres what I had yesterday.. For breakfast I had a string cheese around 6:30 Then while I was making the eggs to make deviled eggs with I ate the yolk from one and gave the white part to the dog that was about 9 Then I got the cake all frosted and the cookies packed to go about 11:30 and I had 1/2 a chocolate chip cookie and a beef stick, it was in the shape of an egg from one of those pre made things at the store so my 1/2 was about the size of a quarter. We had dinner about 2 and I had 1/2 c mashed potatos with ham gravy, about 4 oz of ham and 6 steamed baby carrots, it took me about 30 min to eat all that becouse I just nibbled off my plate off and on. Then I did the habit thing and went back for seconds (at about 3:30)and ate that too I was probably able to fit more in becouse I had coffee with dinner wich washes everything out of the tummy .... When everyone else had some carrot cake I had some more ham and carrots with gravy, and about 2 tbs of the cake crums off the cakeplate, avoiding the frosting. Then we came home and descovered my little nemo died (he was a betta) Okay so most people would see him as "just a fish" but he was our first pet together, we got him our first easter together, also they day hubby met my family for the first time, the day he met my mom who also was no longer here and the emotions just hit me from the last 6 months of everything going on and I was overwhelmed so I ate, I had some ham and a cookie and a peanutbutter filled chocolate bunny and 2 crunch sticks and a couple beef sticks and some cheese and crackers, I didn't eat it all at once ( between 7 and 9) but i grazed through it becouse it was there so on top of the emotional pain and discomfort I also had the physical too when it hit me I was emotional eating I asked hubby.....wanna go to walmart?..lol We spent 3 hours walking around walmart and I got some garden stuff and some potting soil to repot some plants and stuff like that, on the way out he bought me an angel holding a harp windchimefor the rosegarden (my mother has(okay had I inherited that too) an area where she collected mini rose bushes, I bought a white one for it saturday. and we went out and sat on the bench and I did what I should have done before ...I cried, i cried becouse my mom was gone and becouse our first child together was gone becouse i lost the baby in march and becouse everything in my life changed and I had NO control over it , I cried becouse I am in love with the most wonderful man in the world and I couldn't live if i were to lose him to and all that becouse of "just a fish" Yes I overate and it was probably due to the habitual family effect and was definatly emotional eating but it was one day and know what i did wrong and why so it's nothing I can't recover from It was one day it doesn't have to become my life again. Oh man I think I bable too much......lol but to answer your question yes I had trouble with eating this holiday.........hehe Hugs, Shel

I hope you feel better today. Today is a new day. I grazed all day yesterday and made bad choices myself. I know how much you miss your mom. Holidays are hard. ( It has been 11 years for me ) It is so hard. You need to get a new nemo. Have you considered trying for another baby. You are so lucky to have such a great husband that you love so much. Hugs Barb

((((shel))))) Micha

I am not even going to say what all I put in my mouth this weekend. I saw soooo many bad habbits emerge this weekend.. I have such guilt about it it's disgusting. However today is Monday and it's a new day and a new week. I'm going to go LOAD up on better choices and get my @$$ back on track.... Heck everyone strays from the path now and again, Im hoping as long as we don;t make a habbit of it we'll be all right! Besides I think KNOWING we made teh mistake and acknowlaging it is 1/2 the battle... Thanks for posting this and beign HONEST... In the end I think it helps ALL of us! Erin

Pam, Sounds to me like you probably dumped on the fat content of the foods and not the sugars...I do that too. So you had a tough weekend...it's Monday now and a new week. Time to get back into gear and start over. I just had an hour of diarrahea because I "chose" to eat some chocolate and I know better... I didn't overeat on Easter, just ate things I'm not used to eating...I felt good, but not great. I could have made better choices, I know. It's a new day (afternoon) and I threw out all of the candy in the house. My kids had their fill of it these last two days and don't need any more either. It's back to protein, protein, protein... I hate how sugar makes me feel anyways.. Don't beat yourself up...just start anew. paula

Its good to know that I am not the only one going through the troubles of wanting to eat more. We just have to remember the basics even tho we overeat We need to jump back on the band wagon and EXCERCISE EXERCISE!!! ::