Got a text from my sister this morning asking if I wanted to go for breakfast. Breakfast always means the same thing... Wetherspoons traditional cooked breakfast. At first I tried to think of an excuse not to go but then I thought actually, why should I? This 'change of lifestyle' isn't about avoiding all food situations, it's about changing my habits and my attitudes. Am I going to avoid going out for a meal for the rest of my life? No! So I need to learn how to make healthier choices so I took a look at the menu online.
To be honest, I was gobsmacked at the calories in everything...
Beans on toast... 530 calories
Scrambled egg on toast... 503 calories
The breakfast bloomer... 912 calories!!!
Nothing was any good really, the pancakes were 675 without the bacon and the breakfast roll 416. The traditional breakfast that I normally have is 891 calories, I'd never realised how bad it was! I kept looking at them and thinking, do I really want to use that many of my daily calories on that? I realised that actually I didn't. There were two healthy options, fruit salad and yoghurt or porridge with strawberry and blueberry compote. So I went for the second one, a yummy far healthier option at only 257 calories, a fraction of the others.
The thing with these things is that although I had decided on the healthy option before didn't mean that I'd stick with it once I got there! But surprisingly I did, didn't even consider getting anything else. So whilst my sister sat and ate her traditional breakfast, I had my porridge and tea and actually really enjoyed it. And now I don't have to try and last the rest of the day on 300 calories, I've got over 900 instead! Let's hope this continued resisting willpower continues!
Now have to finish preparing for my PGCE interview tomorrow. Then I think I'm going to do a little of my aerobics and pilates DVDs and head over to my sisters. Need to drop my nieces birthday present off from the weekend!
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