Summer is a good time for living healthy. The weather is warm, so that helps with encouraging me to get outside and get some exercise. And summertime fruit is the BEST! Watermelon, cherries - wide varieties of some of my favorite fruits.
However, there is one aspect of summer that just makes it really hard to try and diet. One word (acronym really): BBQ.
I'm not talking about barbecue in a restaurant. I'm talking about those cookouts and BBQs that you go to, that usually start around Memorial Day and go through Labor Day.
Oh how I love them. I love the smell. I love what seems to be an endless supply of food. I love the paper plates. I love the obligatory DJ or boombox tuned to KBLX.
However, there is no nutrition label on a hot link fresh off the grill. Or ribs. Or even that potato salad that someone made. And there's something about being at a BBQ that makes you overeat - mainly because you can justify it. For example:
1. You're there all day (so you're eating lunch and dinner).
2. You're getting your Cupid Shuffle or Cha Cha Slide on (so you're getting a workout).
3. Plus, it shouldn't go to waste . . .
So while I stock up on fruit and get my iPod ready for a nice walk (two steps forward), I am recognizing that I am probably going to get 2 plates at the next BBQ (two steps back). Oh well.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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