Jelly Beans, Chocolate and Working Out

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! We had friends over Friday night and visited with family both Saturday and Sunday. This year, for the first time in my adult life, I hosted an Easter meal :) I feel like a big girl now! But not only was there pressure to host the meal, it was with the bf's family! So it was my first time hosting them for an event too. Luckily they are laid back, fun and so wonderful so everything went smooth. The food was great and my brown dogs only did a little begging. I also knew that I would be consuming foods (in moderation) that I don't normally consume, so I did my normal Saturday run for my C25K, which by the way now has running segments of 5 minutes!! I also woke up Sunday morning and got in a 45 minute run before I started cleaning and prepping food too. GO ME! Those two runs really gave me the energy I needed to get through the weekend and made me feel a little better eating some of the more rich foods that I did.

On Friday at work, someone had given everyone some Easter candy treats...this was a big dilemma for me because I didn't want to eat any of it...but then again it looks so yummy. So I decided I would eat only the white and pink beans because they are the only ones that taste good, and two of the four little chocolate eggs. That way I get a little taste but don't go overboard. The rest of the candy I threw away (sorry whoever gave me the candy!)

I had two Easter events to attend and I knew I wanted to eat the foods at the meal at my house, so at the first gathering we went to I tried to eat small portions and mostly the fruit, salad, and veggies. But there was a cheddar biscuit that happened too, so good.

For the dinner at my house, I was making green beans with toasted almonds, fresh cut up fruit, jello, and the most amazing and dangerously naughty potatoes I made this recipe at Christmas too and they are so easy and so so delicious. I have yet to find a person who does not love them. However, they are are rich and are obviously not a "health" food. So I make sure to monitor my portion with them. I also made them with reduced fat cheese, low fat sour cream and a little less bacon than it calls for. That made me feel like I tried a little to make them not as awful. So trust me, I know my plate here is NOT DIET FOOD. I am aware of that , but I feel that sometimes for events you can bend a little and eat things you don't normally eat all the time. I had only one plate of food, where in the past I might have had seconds or thirds, I had smaller portions of foods, and I didn't finish my dessert- I only had a little taste.

How was your Easter? 

Did you have to eat more than one meal?

How do you handle holidays?