Do you know what a serving size is? Since becoming diabetic I've quickly learned what a serving size is and I realized that all those years of eating out and eating at home I was over eating!!! A serving is actually pretty small. One serving of pasta is so small that restaurants are probably serving 6-7 portions as one meal!! My visit with the nutritionist was a productive one. We set goals and she took me through the do's and don't of eating. She made me a meal plan that I think I can live with. The cool thing is that I can eat almost anything within moderation. Of course I can't drink a soda outright or down a bag of m&m's but she taught me if I need a sip of coke or I need a few m&m's its okay if I am exercising and if I don't do it all the time. She even said I could spurlge and eat at In and Out burger as long as I eat protein style with lots of veggies and no salt on the fries and only on an occasion. Yay! The thing that has helped me is being able to take a bite of something here and there so that I don't totally over indulge in the craving. Once you get all the crap out of your body you kind of want to do good and eat good things. One day at a time right!?!
When I was going to Michigan State University, my friends and I would always go to BW3's for hot wings. They always had a variety of flavored wings from Honey BBQ to steaming hot, hot, death wings. Wings and a beer were just the thing to satisfy a busy student's appetite. When we frequented BW3's it was a dive bar but by the time my brother graduated from MSU they swapped locations for a building across the street and turned the name to Buffalo Wild Wings and the restaurant became more like a chain thing. Well, color me shocked the other day when we went to the movies and I saw a Buffalo Wild Wings being built in the AMC Burbank 16 complex. Apparently, after looking on their website they are one of the fastest top 10 chains in the US. So of course I had to introduce the hubby to one of my favorite college treats. I don't think he is so much a fan of chicken wings so we got boneless chicken wings a.k.a. tasty little chicken chunks in two of the flavored sauc...