Kicking off today (Tuesday, really)

Holiday Challenge Index

Make Weigh for the Holidays
A Healthful Goal for the Season of Temptation: Don't Gain a Pound

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Originally posted by SpaceCityPaula:
Anyone with me in the eating and drinking in your car is a choice regardless of your commute??? I used to be one who had food bags all over the floorboards of her car.

Me, too. I was listening to a "Prairie Home Companion" one Sunday AM and Garrison Keeler was describing a cross country road trip taken by some Lake Woebegone college boys.

"Two days into the trip, the boys were knee deep in burger boxes from various fast food establishments."

<In my best Minnesota accent>
Oh Ya... that was me.

My "commute" is all of 3 blocks and I still drove thru (a mile out of my way) every afternoon for a "snack" before dinner.

Reasons/excuses:
a) dirty kitchen that couldn't be cooked in.
b) Ate lunch at 10:30am and was STARVING by 5pm (and thus experienced a severe lapse of judgment).
c) told self that I didn't have time and driving thru was faster.
d) My first year teaching was rough and I deserved a “treat”

I will occasionally grab some carrots and eat them when I deliver dinner on Mondays. But there is a big difference between a serving of vegs and 900 cals worth of McFlurry or a Quarter Pounder.

It is a choice, but frequently for me, making the choice of having a healthy snack in my car at the beginning of my hour long commute home from work at 5 or 5:30 when I'm already getting hungry, is a MUCH better choice than saying "I'm not going to eat in my car, I will get home at 6:30 and make dinner and eat at 7 or later." NOT likely to happen. THAT is when I would hit the drive-thru at 6:30, thinking I am way too hungry to make it until dinner is ready. If I pick this up now, I can eat as soon as I walk in the door.

For me the choice is choosing a healthy thing to eat in the car versus unhealthy, not between eating and not eating.

Dawn

okay I have to pick on something here from the into to the video portion of the lean plate challenge:

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Melanie loves sweets. Her hourlong commute each day means she eats and drinks in her car, a big challenge.

Anyone with me in the eating and drinking in your car is a choice regardless of your commute??? I used to be one who had food bags all over the floorboards of her car. Then I noticed that even when we went through the drive thru, my boyfriend always drove us home before we ate. Then went I got a new car this past summer, I made it my own resolve not to eat in the car (I'll be honest, it still happens on occassion, but everything comes out of the car when I get out).