weekends are NOT easy

it seems that there is always at least one eating occasion each weekend...and this one was no different. On Friday evening we went out with my brother and SIL and her brother and SIL to a Portuguese hall with wonderful food and great music...we took the kids and they had a blast. The hard part is that it seems like every Portuguese meal has to include either potatoes or rice, or at times a combination of the two. What I did was have a good amount of the salad that came before the meal and then went ahead and ate my broiled fish and just left the potatotes that came with it on the plate...hmmm...who knew you could do that? LOL.

Then yesterday at my cousin's house where we got together for her son's birthday...again I had a nice piece of meat with a huge salad. I also nibbled on cheese with some wine...it was great and no one seemed to notice that I was eating 'differently' at either occasion. So...it IS hard...especially with all those wonderful foods tempting you...but it is doable!