Louisiana

I'm in Southern Louisiana this week for work, and having a great time. Unfortunately for my diet, I've been eating everything in sight. Not quite in line with my 2012 goals, but I have been to the hotel gym for the past 2 days (which is 2 days more than I would normally go), so I am feeling a little more proud of myself. Last summer I was in this area--but a little further out into the Bayou, not near civilization, and I bought a local school fundraiser cookbook. I've been reinspired to start using it again. I have eaten some of the most delicious food this week so far (catfish, gumbo, po boys, stuffed crab...and let's not even discuss the bread pudding). Today at lunch I had rice dressing for the first time, and it was insanely good. I think I'm going to try a recipe for it soon once I get home--and maybe attempt to healthify it? We'll see. In the mean time, I'm looking forward to a dinner of fruit and yogurt tonight, and another gym trip :)

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Ahh, finally back to my desk after a solid morning of meetings. Very interesting, but very, very long. Especially when all I had to look forward to at lunch was a big salad. Tear for me. The detox is going great during the day time. I have made it through the past 4 days breakfast and lunch with no slip-ups! But, then by dinner time I am ravenous and the last thing I want to eat is more veggies. Last night it was cheese and crackers and more Moravian cookies. YUM. I'm still proud of me though:)

Nothing new to report. Today is a good day, but a little blah. Tomorrow I have yoga to look forward to, plus it will be my personal Friday yay! On my day off, I've definitely decided to have a mall day and then I'm going out to dinner with a big group of people. Should be really fun. I'm thinking of calling the girls I met last weekend to go see He's Just Not That Into You on Saturday. Oh, the joys of actually having people I can call!

I want to find a couple of good recipes for this weekend. I'm thinking of making something in my crockpot on Sunday, plus I've really been in the mood to bake a cake lately. Maybe its time to pull out my new Best of the Food Network cookbook--even though I know most everything is too complicated for me. We'll see!