Week 6, Day 3, Diet with Dianna

Today was my mothers birthday and tonight we celebrated with a big family meal at my sister's house. This is the first bit shin-dig I've been to since I started my diet six weeks ago. Since birthday cake is usually served at birthday celebrations, I had all day to prepare, in my mind, not to indulge. The menu was lasagna, Texas sized garlic toast and salad. I was in charge of the salad so it was Dianna Diet friendly. As for the lasagna, it was full of pasta and sauce which are both high in carbs and sugars. There was cheese and meat in there too, but the main ingredient is large pasta noodles and red sugary tomato sauce.
As the time came to get to eating, I grabbed my bowl and loaded up on the salad...which was not very much since I eat so much less, now and a low sugar dressing. WOW, was is good...so good that I really didn't miss the lasagna nor the toast. I was full and satisfied. Everyone was oohing and ahhing over all the food and my salad.
Last of all was the birthday sweet cake...extremely high in carbs and sugar. I passed on that too. Instead of cake though, they served mini cup cakes, I like to call mini-sugar bullets. They really looked delicious and I had to say, no thank you about three or four times and sit next to people ogling, finger licking, and lip smacking their sugar bullets. It wasn't easy but I resisted...I didn't even take a taste. I avoided all contact.
When I got home, I ate a sugar free Jell-O Chocolate pudding cup. Hmm-hmm-delicious!

Revelation Knowledge: 
Resistance to temptation gets easier with time and practice. Don't give in...not even once or you will have to start over at square one. Not the diet but the abstaining from temptation. It's something that builds up power over time. Really, it gets easier to say "no" to the little sugar bullets and old habits of the past.
Yeah for me!

Exercise:
None - birthday celebration for dinner...during my swimming time. TOO hot to walk...107 degrees. AHH!

Breakfast:
One fried egg, half a slice of Oroweat whole wheat sandwich thin, two slices of bacon, coffee w/half & half and one packet of Stevia.

Breakfast S/C Total: 1/1

A.M. Snack:

None...too busy to stop and not hungry.

Lunch:

Chick-Fil-A chicken strips and two waffle fries.

Lunch S/C Total: 3/2

A.N. Snack

Five whole black olives. OH, SO GOOD!

A.N. Snack S/C Total: 0/0

Dinner:

Mixed green salad with Feta cheese, black olives, chives, pepperoncini peppers, red onion, shredded carrots and Newman's Own Caesar Dressing

Dinner S/C Total: 1/0

P.M. Snack

Jell-O Sugar Free chocolate pudding cup

P.M. Snack S/C Total: 0/0

Daily Total: 5/3

This is so good; I am stoked!