Trip Game Plan
After baking sandwich bread, bagels, cookies, crackers, and avacado-guacamole bread (recipe to come soon) the last few days to make sure my husband has enough to nibble on for next few weeks, I am ready for vacation! Ha, no, I really enjoyed it. The bread I made was the fluffiest and lightest that I have EVER made! Seriously! I've come a long way from the first dense, dry loaf of bread I made. These loaves are SO light and flufy. Love it!
I have been thinking of my game plan for my trip to home. It is really quite simple-short and sweet you might say. Here it is:
Do the same thing I have been doing.
What? No magical formula? No secret plan to keep from gaining weight on vacation? Nope, sorry to dissapoint. I figured that if I exercise most days a week while I am there (still making it a priority, like normal), and write down EVERYTHING I eat, being a little more leanient on the weekends, then I should not gain any weight. I can't just go willy nilly and eat everything that everyone else is eating. I will eat when I am hungry. I will eat healthy foods when I am hungry. I realized, that I am in control, even on vacation. I make the choice what I eat or don't eat. How impowering is that? I will choose to eat healthy and stay active while I am away. I will do it because its important to me, and I don't want to erase all of the work I have done already. My workout clothes, and dvds are coming with me. My food journal is coming with me. I realize that I won't be able to count EVERY calorie, who wants to do that on vacation anyway? But, I will write everything I eat down, and I do mean EVERYTHING so that I will stay on track. I know that if I have to write down everything, that I am less likely to eat because I have to take the time to write it down. Sweet! So, there is my plan. I might even offer to bake bread, and offer to cook treats when they want them. I would love to bake tons of stuff for them!
P.S. I checked to see if this one cookbook was at the library-Whole Grain Breads by Peter Reinhart, and when I went, they had so many cookbooks! I walked away with four...including Healthy Breads in 5 minutes a day and I love and recommend both of these books. I have tried a few recipes out of them, and enjoy them both. The whole grain breads book is all about making the transition to whole grains, and they have a cracker recipe (like wheat thins) that I tried the other day, which are yummy, as well as some Artisan breads that I have been dying to try, but did not think there was whole grain recipes for them. I am so happy! So, these two books are on my wishlist... I am definitely bringing them to CA with me. I think that the library is going to see my face a lot more frequently!
I have been thinking of my game plan for my trip to home. It is really quite simple-short and sweet you might say. Here it is:
Do the same thing I have been doing.
What? No magical formula? No secret plan to keep from gaining weight on vacation? Nope, sorry to dissapoint. I figured that if I exercise most days a week while I am there (still making it a priority, like normal), and write down EVERYTHING I eat, being a little more leanient on the weekends, then I should not gain any weight. I can't just go willy nilly and eat everything that everyone else is eating. I will eat when I am hungry. I will eat healthy foods when I am hungry. I realized, that I am in control, even on vacation. I make the choice what I eat or don't eat. How impowering is that? I will choose to eat healthy and stay active while I am away. I will do it because its important to me, and I don't want to erase all of the work I have done already. My workout clothes, and dvds are coming with me. My food journal is coming with me. I realize that I won't be able to count EVERY calorie, who wants to do that on vacation anyway? But, I will write everything I eat down, and I do mean EVERYTHING so that I will stay on track. I know that if I have to write down everything, that I am less likely to eat because I have to take the time to write it down. Sweet! So, there is my plan. I might even offer to bake bread, and offer to cook treats when they want them. I would love to bake tons of stuff for them!
P.S. I checked to see if this one cookbook was at the library-Whole Grain Breads by Peter Reinhart, and when I went, they had so many cookbooks! I walked away with four...including Healthy Breads in 5 minutes a day and I love and recommend both of these books. I have tried a few recipes out of them, and enjoy them both. The whole grain breads book is all about making the transition to whole grains, and they have a cracker recipe (like wheat thins) that I tried the other day, which are yummy, as well as some Artisan breads that I have been dying to try, but did not think there was whole grain recipes for them. I am so happy! So, these two books are on my wishlist... I am definitely bringing them to CA with me. I think that the library is going to see my face a lot more frequently!
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