Surviving Holidays

Well, we made it through the big summer holiday, the 4th of July. This holiday, like most holidays, is celebrated with food. The summer's best foods, hot dogs, hamburgers, potatoe salad, homemade ice cream, and corn on the cob.

Like most, getting through the holidays is sometimes a struggle. With the added stress of family, we often turn to food for comfort. This year my goal is to enjoy the family and the family favorite foods, but both in moderation. Often times holidays and vacations are another excuse to overeat and indulge way too much. So I approached the holiday weekend be exercising at the start of the day, and then enjoying the holiday fare in moderation.

It is nothing new for us to hear about portion sizes and how large they have become. It is another to recognize this and then correct it in our every day lives. So this month, at Lindsey's suggestion I am doing my best to measure my food. I caution you that I have found thus far the size of my palm can grow with the size of my hunger! Therefore, I have come up with the rule that a portion of protein for example, must fit INSIDE my palm, not hang over or onto the fingers.

So I continue my journey this month, proud that June was the month to conquer regular i.e. daily,exercise and July is the month to conquer the food. I continue to have the DESIRE to try the newest food fix on the market, but resist with Lindsey's help. In July I will work on portion size and moderation. I just purchased the food journal Lindsey told me about, now I just need to use it. We have all heard that writing down our food makes our weight loss more likely, so I am going to strive to do that every day. Why do we resist those tools that will help us?

Thanks Deb for the sports bra story, I now know where to buy a bullet proof bra!

Have a great week ladies, and remember every week counts!

DeeAnn