What we are eating

Well, I've had my first taste of what it's like to have to completely abandon the diet. My parents are in town for my husband's graduation. Pasta salad, homemade pizza, Porto's pastries in abundance, tamales, chips and dip, tacos. You name it, we ate it. So I just tried to exercise as many days as possible. But my habits of wanting to eat carbs and sugar came out like wildfire. And I have the skin to prove it. I am a mess. But I plan on cleaning things up once they are gone. I haven't gained the weight back (maybe a couple of pounds), so I am just happy about that. My long term goal is to try to incorporate these types of meals in whenever I can. That way, when I have to eat pasta made from scratch and Caesar salad, I have a backup that won't leave me feeling out of control. It's crazy how my mind automatically defaults to the most unhealthy thing in the house as soon as outside food is brought in. Man. I need to get back to a handful of almonds, STAT.

On another note, I know Emily wanted to have more recipe ideas, or know what we are eating. So I went back through the posts and added a label list in the sidebar of the recipes everyone has listed. Any time you post about a recipe or what you ate, please put "meal ideas" and the name of the dish in the Label section below. That will add it automatically to the list. That way we can have ready yummy-sounding meal ideas when we are in a bind.