When You Stuff Yourself Silly

Ok ladies, we all have done it a zillion time once. We have that indulgent weekend o'food. Mine was this past weekend when I went to hood a good friend of mine from law school. There was hawain food at 9pm, the most amazing cookies ever, crabbed stuffed fried avocado, penne with lush cream sauce, steak, bacon-wrapped stuffed jalepenos, shrimp.... you get the picture. I was one giant food vaccuum! Needless to say I still managed to find room for dessert!

So, Sunday evening I decided it was time for a detox! But why is it that when you want to return to normalcy people leave your office and we have celebratory cobbler and such? (I mean three people this week, that is a lot of goodbye-dessert). So I'm sticking to it and here I am to share some of my healthy options to kick start your after-indulgence weekend!

• oatmeal - yummy for breakfast and filling! Keeps your powering through your morning.
• salad - yes I know sounds boring, but the fibrous lettuce makes you feel full and again keeps your from getting the munchies come 3pm. Add in lots of veggies, fruit, and I even slice up a little turkey breast and voila! Just avoid dressing, go for salsa instead.
• Coconut milk in my coffee. I just cannot start my day without my coffee. So I left my lattes in the dust this week and went for some old fashioned coffee with french vanilla coconut milk instead of creamer. No fat and so yummy!
• Up your protein! I tell my Miss Texas girls this all the time, you should be a walking protein machine! I am a fan of Pure Protein bars. They are great post workout (especially those 5am ones I do Monday and Thursday before work).
• Yummy banana coconut shake smoothie. This is my go-to filling shake. Imagine frozen bananas, almond milk and cinnamon!
• Almond butter! I prefer the raw kind that you crank out yourself at the store. Its great on whole wheat toast or bagel thin and great shot of protein!
• Egg whites and turkey bacon! This has been my staple breakfast for years (aka from my pageant days) I make it even easier by simply nuking my egg whites in the microwave for 60-90 seconds and voila! (spice with up w/ salsa or add in some flax seed)

Of course, I  had to get back on my workout wagon, but I will leave that for another day! Happy healthy eating all!