All Is Not Lost
The Story of Overcoming Nutrition Mistakes
-- By Elizabeth Evans Fryer, Health & Fitness Writer
After reading Tips for a Healthy Weekend, concerning our tendency to consume more on weekends, you’ve been conscious of what you’re eating and drinking.
You’ve done well this Saturday: yogurt, a whole oat bagel with lite cream cheese and a grapefruit for breakfast, a slice of turkey, a slice of cheese, fresh veggies and dip and pretzels for lunch, plus a couple cookies for dessert. You’re feeling pretty good about your eating when your husband suggests you and he go to that great Bar-B-Q place for dinner.
“Sure,” you tell him, “That sounds fun.”
The menu offers salads and other healthier fare – though in all the times you’ve eaten at the restaurant, you’ve never ordered anything besides the Buffalo wings, the Bar-B-Q chicken or the fried catfish fingers. This time you think you’ll try a big salad or a grilled chicken sandwich maybe.
You and he start getting hungry a bit after 5 p.m., but the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, is being run at 5:30 p.m. so you decide to wait to leave until after the race. As it turns out, coverage of the Belmont Stakes begins at 5:30 p.m. but the actual race doesn’t start until nearly 7 p.m.
