I’ve done well. We have not eaten out or ordered in for a week now. Yeah us!
Well tonight was the night to take clean eating out on the town. I just didn’t feel like cooking (even though cooking would have been as simple as heating up leftover quinoa and beans). The big question was where to eat? Pizza? I think not. Burgers? Nope. Chinese Buffet? Are you insane? Vegetarian restaurant? None near us, and I also hoped my daughter would eat tonight.
Then we remembered a nice little restaurant near by that basically allows you to choose your raw ingredients and they stir fry them for you. Perfect! I filled my bowl (and not even to the brim) with broccoli, green onions, mushrooms, scallops, shrimp, a little bit of beef, flax seed, cilantro, sunflower seeds and some coconut milk.
I was most impressed by my daughter’s choices! Broccoli, baby corn, chick peas, kidney beans, and some shrimp and a few noodles. Who was this child and where was my sugar-demanding daughter? She didn’t even eat the noodles once we were at the table, and picked out the beans to eat them first! I hope she will continue to learn healthy eating as we go on this journey.
At the end of the meal, our server brought us three fortune cookies. I must say, I didn’t even mind cracking mine open and then handing the cookie part over to my daughter. The fortune itself just made me smile. Maybe the universe is acknowledging my efforts….now hopefully the scale does the same tomorrow.
Good luck with your journey! fortune cookies never lie (ha), I hope you soon will be no longer “struggling with self improvement”! I’m sure you will do amazingly.
I am also on a weight loss journey, as well as a learning to love myself journey, so I hear ya.
Have a great day,
-Jocelyn