[Tara D]

Yesterday I returned from a 5 day road trip vacation. In the past, vacations had been an excuse to eat less healthily. I had made a committment to make healthy choices throughout my vacation prior to leaving, and it worked! I ate great tasting food for five days, eating out every meal, and actually unintentionally lost almost 2 pounds. I didn't look up any calories during my vacation, so I probably should have eaten a little more to maintain instead of lose. However, I wasn't hungry, and now I've proven to myself that eating healthy continuously is a very easily achievable and tasty lifestyle! Thanks to all on this board for increasing my awareness on the whole food in vs. food burned balance!

It's like eating healthy has changed my whole state of mind on what good food really is. Good food is food that tastes good, is nourishing, and that you also feel good about eating after it's all gone. No post-prandial negative feelings! No post-vacation "oops!"

Here's what I ate:
(water was beverage with all meals)

Thursday:
B: Cream of wheat with lactaid skim milk
L: Subway turkey breast 6-inch sandwich
2 servings of hard pretzels
D: Grilled halibut with mixed vegetables (mostly zucchini) in olive oil based dressing
Spinach salad with a few strawberries, no dressing

Friday:
B: Plain toasted bagel with strawberry jam
L: Salmon sandwich on a delicious toasted bun with tomato, lettuce, onion
Spinach salad with no dressing
D: Fettucine in a tomato, eggplant, caper, and olive sauce -- yummy!

Saturday:
B: Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar
L: Subway turkey breast deli-style sandwich
D: Grilled mahi mahi over pico de gallo-type salsa
Broccoli
One small roasted new potato

Sunday:
B: Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar
L: Spaghetti with meat sauce
D: Chinese food! Steamed shrimp and broccoli, served with stir fry sauce on the side. Eaten over rice. (Actually really good! I'd never ordered healthy chinese food before).

Monday (labor day):
B: 2 slices wheat toast with strawberry jam and a banana
L: (On the road) Pretzels, two servings
D: 2 chicken shish kabobs, red beans and rice, salad without dressing