Day 20: My New Tool for Eating Out

I found the best app. ever! It is restaurant nutrition and I am hooked! Forget about myself having to look up what I am going to eat before I go out. Now I can do it right in the restaurant! I love this phone! It is the best thing John has ever bought me! We were sitting in Beef O' Brady's for lunch and I am going through the menu checking out all of the calories.It was such a wake up call on what we put in our bodies and don't realize it. By the time I was done looking at the calories I wasn't even hungry! I just lost my appetite. Then I started looking up everything I eat at our normal restaurants. I must say I don't do too bad since I always go with a small steak, baked potato, and whatever veggie they have. I even had John's mouth drop a couple of times when I told him what we were eating.

I found a bunch of free apps for fitness and nutrition. So I am going to try a couple of them and weed out the ones that aren't any good and rave about the ones that are. By Monday I will be back on this full force. How cliche' is that? I'm gonna get back track on Monday! But I am. Everyday is getting better and more and more back to normal. Even the kids will have a wake up call because they are more than capable to wash some dishes. I love being a stay at home mom but at the same time I also need some help.

Lately I have been battling myself about my kids. I have had people put their input in but lets face it in the end I just shake my head and do what I want to do. Well hey at least we know where Dakota gets it from. Then I talked to my mom. She is the main person I listen to and she said I have to nip this in the bud now with Dakota. She is right too. Let's face it in 2 more years I could be dealing with this with Dustin.

I see the moms who try to be the "friend" to their daughters and sometimes act like them and even get to their levels. I do want to be a friend to my kids in the sense that they feel that they can come to me for anything and I am here to listen. But I first and foremost want to me their mom. And set more boundaries because this scares me. There are just some people in my life I would never want my kids to go down the same road that they did. So there will be grounding if need be and chores will be done or else. I need to put my foot down for once and not pick it back up!

Ok so back to the subject at hand...

Exercise: Not much but does dodging old people at Publix count?

Meals:

Breakfast: Oatmeal Cookie (hey its oatmeal lol)

Lunch: 5 chicken wings and some fries

Dinner: Pork chop, corn on the cob, and red skin mashed potatoes

So there you have it. My normal babbling lol. On tomorrows blog I will recap the past week and oh what a week it has been!