2 Weeks 6 Days

     This week of my journey is quickly coming to an end.This morning I slept in until 7:30 AM. Since it is Sunday I did not work out today. We got up and went to church and I took my breakfast with me. This morning I had a turkey sausage, egg white, and potato breakfast bowl. I originally planned on cooking lunch at the house, but because we had some friends come to church today we decided to go out for lunch. Instead of cooking at the house we went to Diego's Mexican restaurant for lunch. I counted my 10 chips out and got the pollo Monterrey with an unsweet tea.
     Later in the afternoon I prepared dinner for my family. Last night I took out a NY strip steak and marinated over night. I also made a salad with some broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, and onions that we had. I chopped up the vegetables and then covered them with Italian dressing. In the future I will use fat free dressing, but for today I used what was in the refrigerator. The other side dish we had was herb roasted potatoes. However, instead of using butter I used non-stick cooking spray on them. They still browned some in the oven and still had a good flavor. However, by leaving out the butter the calorie count was lower.
     After church we told the kids that we would have dessert before we went to bed. (In reality, we waited for the dessert until after church because I knew the kids would say they were hungry and would need a snack.) We ended up having strawberry shortcake using fresh strawberries, angel food cake cups, and light whipped cream. It was about 8:00 PM when we had them so it was later, but it was still a good time with some of the people from our church.
     As I review the weekend I thing it went good, although I was stiff most of the day from yesterday's baseball practice. I am still managing to eat healthier, I have also had several of you offer encouragement and for that I say thank you. Another thing that I noticed is that my entire family was able to eat on a package of steak that in the past would have been enough for my wife and myself. Intead of having two big NY stirp steaks I cut the steaks into 7 small steaks each  about the size of a deck of cards. Which is significant because that is the recommend serving size from the USDA food pyramid. I cannot believe how much I was eating previously. No wonder I am overweight!