Day 3

"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner."
-Henry Sambrooke Leigh

I have a challenge for all of you. Every night this week, when you make your plate for dinner of how much food you normally would put on it, or when your food comes to your table at a restaurant and take the total amount and cut it completely in half. I know you think, "I will still be hungry Hannah, I don't want to do this!"
I promise after finishing your newly portioned meal, you will feel satisfied. You may not be stuffed, but you will be satisfied and that is how we are supposed to feel. American portions took ahold of our thought process and a lot of people have the thinking that bigger is better. Well now, that's why your wasteline, like mine, is bigger and it's not better. Come back in a week and leave me comments letting me know if you lost pounds, feel better, and/or learned portion control that you have now leaked into the rest of your daily meals. :)

After all of the holiday madness has passed, we have many gift cards to spend for "date night" out to eat at a few favorite restaurants. I was faced with my first test tonight, Red Lobster. Luckily with Weight Watchers(WW) you can eat what you want you just need to stay in your personal point range. Going there I had a plan, and all intentions on picking something healthy that I would feel good about eating and feel good about my choice. I ended up ordering a tilapia dish with a side of broccoli and a side salad. I ordered the half plate version and when my food came I immediately asked for a to go container to cut the food in half and put it away for portion control. I allowed myself to have one of their amazing cheese bisquits but I didn't even want to finish it because it was way to salty for my personal preference. The tilapia had a baked parmesan crust on it that was very tasty but I'm sure the buttery cheese made it very high in points.
By the end of the meal, I was satisfied and not stuffed which is the number one rule. I really don't know the point value and I haven't became a wizard of all food point values so I decided it would be fair to just give up my entire weekly allowance of 49 points and my dinner allowance that I had left over which was approx 20 to this meal just to be safe.


All in all today was a good fat loss day. Every Wednesday evening I will be attending my WW meetings and weighing in so on Wednesdays blog I will post weekly how well or not well I did. Starting Monday I am going to begin my physical activity. So stay tuned :)