Holidays remain a source of serious challenge to any diet. For obvious reasons, and no doubt based on thousands of years of tradition, holiday gatherings seem to revolve around food. In my personal case, Easter weekend ends up having two food based traditions. The obvious one, Easter dinner, is largely similar to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Simply a day where a ton of food is available, at a huge family gathering.
Good Friday is a little more difficult, simply because of timing. The day itself is a normal workday, and so requires breakfast, lunch and snacks as normal. Church is then at 7 or so. After church our tradition is to go out and get either dinner or desserts. Unfortunately, since that means not eating until 9 or so there's a need for a pre-dinner. In the end it all just simply means more calories, without corresponding exercise. Not an excuse of course, just an experience. Holidays are a challenge, but really should only represent slowing down on the diet, not stopping. Their advantage is simply that they are special events. Come Monday, I don't have any reason to be overeating.
Food for Friday: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), PB&J for lunch (600 calories), granola bar as snack (70 calories), egg and cheese sandwich for pre-dinner (300 calories), fish and chips for dinner (1200 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2470
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 630
Total Points Earned: 17835
Points to go: 182165
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