I recently read somewhere that Sun Chips are not all bad for you. But they are chips and have to be treated as such - which means eating the whole bag is not going to do you any good or provide any healthful fiber. Lately, I have been snacking a lot. I am trying to go the 'sort of healthy' route but it is such a slippery, slippery slope. I try to buy a smallish bag of sunchips or those baked fish have been a choice lately. The problem with those fishies is that they only come in the big bag and i think that i am only going to eat a few and before I know it the whole bag is gone. I have learned that what works best for me is to just not buy any at all. Because if I buy a bag-no matter the size...I have to finish it.

What are some snacks that you enjoy and do you have any tricks to not finishing a bag?

August 8th, 2008

I came back from my vacation yesterday. My plan of weighing myself every couple of days didn't work out as there wasn't a weighing machine where I was staying.

Honesty/Confession time:

- I did go on a few morning walks-not nearly every day as I had planned.
- The first few days I was conscious of what I was eating but then towards the end I ate with abandon. The rationalization for that is that I was coming across foods that I had not eaten before like the burger and animal fries at In and Out Burger (I will post about that experience later), and also some authentic and inauthentic Mexican food in San Diego.
- Food is a way of socializing and bonding...my cousin is an avid cook and I was cooking too while I was in Los Angeles. And when one is cooking for a crowd, it is usually not salads and steamed vegetables. The message to get in between the lines is that we cooked - we ate; we hung out - we ate; we went out and we ate.

Now that I am back I have jumped back on the proverbial wagon since this morning. I made a delicious and healthful lentil soup today which I had for lunch. I intend on having a light dinner later on today. I will also be buying that weighing machine that wasn't to be found in Los Angeles and get back on my regimen. It would be a shame to let all the work that I put in all year go to waste by staying off the wagon too long and gaining back the weight.

So vacation is over and I am resuming my weight loss plan.

How have you fared on vacation this summer?

Until I eat again.