I learned that Por Vida is an initiative to encourage restaurants to offer a menu choice that is low fat, low sugar & low salt, with healthy portions.

• Do you know what 5 lbs of fat looks like?  Yuck.  The instructor passed around what looked like a quarter section of a good sized watermelon and then the same size in muscle did feel heavier.

• 2% milk is not ok.  Ok.  I bought the Greek yogurt after the class since the yogurt I was buying had 28 g of sugar and the Greek yogurt has twice the protein.  

• I received some valuable tools at last night’s diabetes class.  Measuring cups, measuring spoons, pedometer (5000 steps at least and 10,000 steps to lose weight), and a poster that shows a healthy plate with information on servings and servings sizes on the back of the poster.  Corn and peas are starches, not vegetables.  I did not know this.  I am happy to know I can eat 1-2 servings of these per meal.  I was surprised to know that a person should only eat one teaspoon of salt per day.  Yikes.  Everyone was surprised about the one teaspoon of oil or fat per meal. 

• So last night my grocery list included:

Mrs. Dash, Splenda Mocha Coffee packets, Butter Buds, Crisco Olive Oil Cooking spray, Balsamic & Red Wine vinegars.  I bought some roasted almonds.  Eating a few of these  with coffee satisfies my craving for chocolate.

• I learned that Por Vida is an initiative to encourage restaurants to offer a menu choice that is low fat, low sugar & low salt, with  healthy portions.