Holiday Curse

I do know what you do for the holidays but the holidays for me and my family is generally about two things:
1-Being with my family and friends
2-EATING


After catching up with my family and friends we tuck into some of the best food you have ever seen or eaten.  Since I'm so far from my parents and siblings I spend most quick holidays (a day off work or two) with my 
in-laws.  I love my in-laws they are the best and they BOTH can cook.  My father in law makes these cheese biscuits that I can literally eat an entire pan of.  My mother in law can cook anything. They lady could turn leather into some crave worthy.  So its Memorial Weekend and I've already haven't step foot into the gym since Thursday.  I had fried chicken and fries on Friday after work, followed by salad on Saturday( a decent day), followed by meat lovers pizza on Sunday, God only knows what my mother in law has cooking up for Monday!!!!  


So here's the dilemma:

1. Do I get up Monday and make my swim class (YES, Okay, maybe).
2. Avoid everything with gravy, grease, and fatty meat on Monday (Not going to happen)
3. Make it to the gym for at least 1hr. to make it up for the totally AWESOME meal I plan to consume on Monday.(YES, Totally doable

How do you manage the holidays?

Ribs or Manna from Heaven?

Cheese Biscuits fit for Queens

Up and At 'Em

I really don't like this phrase. Up and at who? Who are a hoping out of bed to attack. This morning "them" could have stormed my house and it wouldn't have been able to get me out of bed. I still in the midst of a spring/summer head cold and simply wasn't feeling it today.  I did manage to drag in to work but forgot my carefully calorie counted lunch! So I opted to run to Chipotle to get a salad with grilled chicken. It was surprisingly light and fresh. No pictures since I gobbled it up almost immediately.

The lesson Ive learned is that I save so much time and energy pack everything the night before. I have to stick to that and keep control over what I pop in my mouth.

CREAM OF RICE

Ive adopted a nutritionist advised meal plan.  Its a shock to the system to put it mildly.

I planned to start the meal plan today which gave me a pass to eat what I pleased for Mother's Day. I still ate pretty healthy although I wanted the killer buffet at Pappadeaux's the line was way to long so I had a reasonable meal that consisted of a turkey sandwich and baked chips (DON'T ASK).

The only part of the meal plan I was not so happy about was the CREAM OF RICE! No, I didn't mean Cream of Wheat. I meant CREAM OF RICE! Who has ever heard of that? I thought I was reading the paper wrong. I was told it wad easy to find. but its not. So with visions of 2nd grade rice pudding in my head we went shopping. 2hours into the shopping experience and 2melt downs later( 1-mine  and 1-from the kids) Still no Cream of Rice.  I settled on the other breakfast option of good old Bran Flakes.

The one think I could not find after extensive Google searches and checking with four stores  I gave up.

(i know it exist)

Needless to say its mid-morning and I am still alive. I stomach hasn't eaten a whole in my back hunting for food. We will see how I feel after Kickboxing tonight...