If I don’t like it I won’t eat it…
Yesterday when I got home hubby was cooking dinner, cordon bleu’s with broccoli cheddar soup. I took a few bites and was like I don’t like the soup- so I didn’t eat it… The old me WOULD have eaten it then eaten something else.
Hubby also didn’t like the soup so we threw it out and we pulled out an already made spaghetti that hubby ended up not eating for his lunch. It was actually pretty good (he got it from Henry’s market). I got home later than normal so I was just like sure whatever let’s eat it. While I had been waiting for dinner I was starving so I had a la tortilla wrap with hummus on it 
After dinner I was stuffed but I still found room for my fudge bar 
Sodium was a little high yesterday but that’s what happens when I don’t cook dinner
It’s a little NSV for me to not eat what I don’t like, I’m so used to finishing everything on my plate. I grew up this way- looking back I remember my mom filling my plate with food and telling me to eat every bite. If I didn’t I was punished and reminded of the children in the world who didn’t have enough food to eat… I remember after a while I just ate everything on my plate, no questions asked, after that unless what I was eating was totally disgusting I’d eat EVERY bite. So now for me to not eat something cuz it’s just alright, well, yeah, that makes me feel good. It also makes me see that my attitude about food overall is changing. I know for me I won’t force my children to finish their plate, if they are full, then they are full. As long as they eat something I’ll be happy with that. I want my children to not lose that “I’m full” signal like I did- it’s taken me a LONG TIME to start properly listening to that signal in my own body. So many overweight people I know also belonged to the “clean plate club” and I think part of our eating problem was our parents forcing us to finish our food when we weren’t hungry anymore. I don’t blame my parents for everything, I mean I know they meant well, but yeah I won’t do that to my kids.
I’ve taken the day off from work so I’m home right now- blogging as hubby is sleeping He has Monday/Tuesday off so I took off Tuesday for us to spend some time together. I’m going to make breakfast, then we’ll go see district 9, come home, pack up the bikes and go to the beach, ride some bikes then have lunch there
Have a great day everyone
Breakfast:
Stretch Island Fruit Co. Fruit Leather - Orchard Cherry (14g), 1 serving 45
Orowheat 100% whole grain Double Fiber English Muffin, 1 serving 110
Laughing Cow Light Creamy French Onion 1 wedge, 1 serving 35
Breakfast TOTALS: 190
Lunch:
Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine Chicken Chow Mein (One Dish Favorites), 1 serving 260
Nectarines, 1 fruit (2-1/2″ dia) 60
LandOLakes medium cheddar snack, 1 serving 90
Lunch TOTALS: 410
Snack:
Jello Fat Free-Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge Pudding as prepared w/Fat Free Milk, 1 serving 80
Snack TOTALS: 80
Dinner:
Barber Foods Reduced Fat stuffed chicken breast chicken Cordon Bleu, 1 serving 260
Bear Creek Cheddar Broccoli, 0.25 serving 43
Henry’s meatball marinara, 6 oz 246
Dinner TOTALS: 549
Snack:
La Tortilla Factory - Low Carb Tortilla, 1 serving 50
Hummus, 3 tbsp 70
Fat Free Fudgesicle bars, 1 serving 1 pop 65
Snack TOTALS: 184
Calories: 1,413
Fat: 45
Carbohydrates: 167
Protein: 74
Fiber: 27
Sodium: 3,492
Yeah, my parents did the same thing to me.
Enjoy the movie, but you probably would’ve enjoyed Inglourious Basterds more. :p
I picked the movie last time so it’s his turn this time- trust me I want to see that too!
District 9 was GREAT!! You’ll love it!! (well, if you like mockumentary stylized sci-fi action flicks… and really, who doesn’t!)
The clean plate club - my parents (specifically my mom) went one better. When I was a teen, they opened a smorgasbord-style restaurant near us. So every Sunday, we’d go there for a late lunch/early dinner. And if I didn’t eat what my mom considered “her money’s worth” I would get grounded for a week. I am not even kidding. I had to have at least three full plates of food, salad didn’t count(her rules). Can you imagine?! That was so messed up! Needless to say, I never make my kids eat when they’re not hungry. Ever. And I don’t even know of any all-you-can-eat places around here… do they still have them?
I was a member of the Clean Plate Club too. Waste not want not and all that. I’ve only recently started listing to my body and stop eating when I am full.
Have a great day date with your hubby.
Boy oh boy were we a clean plate (all the kids are starving in China) club in our house growing up. That being said i am so not thinking about starving kids in another country when i am eating chocolate!
It sounds like you and DH had a great day planned. I hope that you had fun.
Hope you had a great day with your DH!! Sounds like a lovely plan.
I think just recognizing the small victories - like not eating something that we don’t like - really adds up in the grand scheme of things. way to go!!!
Isn’t it funny that we’d EVER eat something we don’t like? I’m that way. I hate wasting food and can’t turn down anything so I end up eating a lot that I shouldn’t. Its one of the many things about my relationship to food I’m trying to change.