Okay, confession time!!
I had a pig out festival yesterday!!
It's actually not too bad all things considered but man, did I eat!!
Breakfast was normal (an egg and cheese bagelwich, which is only 5 points)
Lunch was smallish but otherwise fine (a bit of fruit, some veggies and an imitation crab meat and cheese sandwich--7 points)
but then...it got ugly.
You see...my mom was asked to spearhead the catering for a funeral (a 12 year old boy who died after a nine year battle with lukemia, so sad. He had a bone marrow transplant in January and was doing better but I guess his lungs were so badly scarred and infected from illnesses and chemo, that he wasn't able to recover and he passed away last week.).
Anyway, the family didn't have the money to hire caterers so the church ladies were asked to take care of everything and my mom was put in charge. My mom stresses about things like this so I made sure DH could be home with the kids and I offered my services to her for the day. They have a small congregation so they needed all the help they could get.
So, that took about eight hours plus my two hours of driving time which meant that I didn't have dinner until 7 pm and it was on the way home. I got McDonalds: a small sprite and two grilled buffalo chicken snack wraps. This was 13 points which left me with five points remaining of my daily totals.
For some reason, the McDonalds didn't seem like enough so I had some kettle cooked baked chips, which were sooooo tasty, I finished off the 113 g bag!!
Even still, this was only about 9 points, meaning I had only used 4 flex points. This was consumed in the car on the way home and once home, I was so tired I turned to food again to get me through the evening with my husband.
At least this time I made a sandwich (5 points) and then opened a SECOND BAG of those chips (guess I'd better not buy them again...) and stole a few more...prolly about 5 points worth.
So, I used up about 14 flex points last night, mostly on chips. All in all, not the best day...although not nearly as bad as I was wont to do as recently as three months ago.
Those chips were amazing!! I'm not a huge fan of baked chips in general...they don't taste like the real thing but these babies, because they are kettle cooked I guess, were REAL chips in taste and texture but don't have the GREASE of real chips. That's why I couldn't stop eating them, well...that and the fact that there was the mindless eating while I was driving, straight from the bag.
Since I was well within my flex points, I should be okay for the week but since it wasn't a very healthy day, my goal is not to repeat it in the future.