I did some shopping today, it should have been Christmas shopping..but it wasn't. It's never a good idea to go shopping on an empty stomach (and I believe that means ANY kind of shopping, not just for food) and since I didn't take the time to eat before I left the house, I told myself to get something fairly healthy to eat before shopping. I decided on a Wendy's salad and small chili. Not too bad. The Wendy's chili has 220 calories (a little too much sodium, but it's a trade off for the 17 gm. of protein) and the salad was the half-size so the calories would be about 170 without the dressing. I felt better after eating and knew I would be able to concentrate but even more than that, I knew it would be easier for me to make better food decisions as the day went on.
Later in the day, I was hungry again (and still shopping), and I actually had a small bag of chips in my cart and was heading to the candy aisle when I gave myself a little wake up call and decided to grab some low sodium dry roasted peanuts and some turkey sticks. A diet Snapple rounded out the snack. I felt so much better with the protein snack; much better than if I had had the chips and candy...one bad decision would have led to another and another and so on....
