Choose Your Treat Yoself Wisely

Let's face it. I'm not perfect, and I don't always pick and choose where to treat yoself. There's just some days that seemingly every nutritional choice is a ... shall we say ... less than prudent one. You could say that I'm fairly normal in that respect. The goal is to significantly minimize the number of those situations. Like limiting them to your summer Disney vacation or weekend in Vegas.

But that doesn't mean that you still can't have an occasional treat yoself without completely blowing the nutritional bank. Tonight was one of those nights...

Another set of mids is in the books, and surviving it deserves a little treat. My in laws drove up to pick up my kids for a weekend at their house, and we took them to dinner at a local chain restaurant that touts their awesome burgers and bottomless fries. On the drive over, I scoped out the menu and associated nutritional facts, narrowing my choices down to a few tasty-sounding but still fairly healthy entrees. I really wanted a surviving-a-7-pack-of-mids celebratory adult beverage, too, but given I limit my late afternoon/evening carb intake, I needed to make some changes to the rest of my meal to limit the impact of having a single beer. In effect, I chose my single "treat yoself" - one adult beverage. How did I pull this off? I skipped the bottomless fries, having broccoli in its stead and elected for a lettuce-wrapped grilled chicken sandwich in lieu of a traditional bun. And I left satisfied.