Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday is by far and away the most difficult day of the week for me to make good food choices. 

I blame my family.

And my church.

I am cursed, cursed I tell you, with family members who are phenomenal cooks.  Really, there should be laws against having so many talented chefs in one family.  I am lucky though, that my family is actually made up of really nice, likable people.  There are no food pushers here.  No one ever has said, "Oh, I made this just for you, won't you at least try a bite."  No guilt.  No bossiness.  Just durned good food that calls to me like sirens singing for Odysseus to come join them for some BBQ ribs.

And then there's the Greek and Russian ladies at my church.  I'm Eastern Orthodox, which is way cool, but besides that includes a lot of ethnic families.  We have the aforementioned Greeks and Russians, in addition to Ethiopians and Polish families.  And then we all eat lunch together after church every Sunday and they bring some of THE BEST food.  Today I chowed down on 2 slices of yummy ooey gooey baklava.  (And the BBQ brisket that I supplied...got keep it real in the good ol' US of A.) 

So what usually happens is that I eat lunch at church, with most of the dishes being things I can't pronounce, much less count points for because I have no idea what they are.  And then later I go over to my sister-in-law's house where my family likes to congregate, and they all bring their yummy food and I sometimes have a 2nd lunch. 

I blame everyone else besides me.

I mean, this willpower thing is just a myth, isn't it?

Right?

Well, a little bit of a myth?

It's harder than it looks, or something like that, though?

Right?

OKAY!  Stop brow-beating me!  I know it's my fault!  I just can not say no to certain foods, most foods, all foods.  I don't know what it is about me that craves food on a continual basis.  I do know that I love the way food tastes.  I love how it feels in my mouth.  I love how it makes me feel full when I eat a lot of it.  I don't know why I love those things, I just know that I do.

So here's today's damage : 
     Breakfast - None, because we don't eat breakfast before church.  It's a spiritual thing, not a running-late-getting-out-of-the-door-at-the-last-minute thing.  It has to do with having the communion being the first thing you consume on Sunday, actually.
     Lunch - 1 BBQ brisket sandwich with Kaiser bun, some summer sausage, cheese cubes, crackers, cheese ball, 2 slices of Baklava (mmmm.....honey nutty goodness!), and a rasberry/cherry bar cookie thing.  This is actually about half of what I would normally eat.  I was really trying to moderate myself today.
     Dinner - Slice of Minsky's pizza, 4 choco-chip cookies, bag of popcorn.
     Snacks - Osembei (Japanese crackers that my hubby bought me today) and a Route 44 Diet Vanilla Coke with Easy Ice from SONIC (America's favorite drive-in, by the way), and  about 15 M&M's. 


Actually, now that I write it all down, it isn't quite as bad as I thought.  I did try to at least watch myself and not go too overboard.  But not a green-leafed vegetable to be seen, or even a piece of fruit, as far as the eye can see.


So let's make BABY STEPS plans for tomorrow, so I stay within my points and don't go all crazy....
  1.  Breakfast - WW English muffin (4 pts.), WW Blueberry muffin (3 pts.) = 7 points
  2.  Lunch - Leftover lasagna (8 pts.) and salad (2 pts) = 10 points
[17 points in, 15 left to go!]
  3.  Snack - Pudding (2 pts.) and almonds (2 pts.) = 4 points
[11 points left]
  4.  Exercise = 30 minutes cardio, 20 minutes weights, 10 minutes stretching = 6 activity points, yea me!
[17 points left now, baby!]
  5. Dinner & Movie - Planning on seeing Avatar with hubby tomorrow.  Hmmm....if we eat before we go, I'll be less likely to want popcorn.  And I could even bring in my own popcorn.  Must make plans for this!! 


Okay, that's the plan then for tomorrow.  And tomorrow is quickly approaching, so I should get gone and get to bed. 


362 days left.  100 pounds yet to go.