If You Bite It, Write It

My resolve has been whittling away by baking primarily.  In the last two days, I baked 20 honey cakes, 48 zucchini and wheatgerm muffins and 48 pumpkin and cranberry cupcakes.  It is the taste here and a taste there that comes up and bites you in the ass leaving innumerable calories stuck to your backside.

I remember an old saying of "over your lips and onto your hips".  It is a truism. To add to my baking frenzy, I have been out for the evening in 6 out of 7 days.  Mostly, it was because of TIFF and the movies start early and although I prepare for a snack in the car on the way home of cheese strings and fruit and water, I have been hounded by BLT's.  Oh, come on now, were you really thinking bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches?  I meant Bites, Licks and Tastes.  Going untracked is a real pitfall.

So today, I am being more judicious and I am going to keep on tracking.  I love my iced lactose free skim milk lattes for breakfast and another during the day.  I track that.  I had a mini zucchini and wheatgerm muffin with it this morning before Pilates.  I tracked that.  Lunch was wonderful.  I made it at home.  I had a lot of sliced mushrooms left in the fridge and a lot of fresh baby spinach.  They were combined with two eggs to make a fabulous veggie-laden omelette.

Tonight will be another challenge.  We have a gala dinner tonight.  It is a Kosher Jewish event and that means lots of fried hors d'oeuvres.  My guess is the dinner will be salty chicken preceded by a soup, salad or smoked salmon dish and dessert will be made of edible oil product because it has to go with the meat or chicken.  That is a challenge.  I plan to stay away from the wine because that brings down my resolve.  A glass or two of wine and I don't care what I eat because I am partying.  I think I will take a little notebook with me. Writing it down helps me make better decisions about what and when I eat.  "If you bite it, write it!"