Our Triumphant Return

Let me tell you, Arkansas is a beautiful place! They have a crazy amount of parks teeming with animals! We were lucky enough to stay at Degray State Park while their Avian Conservation Weekend was going on. We got to meet a lot of their rangers as well as some of the Little Rock Zoo personnel. They brought some birds from their collection and we were able to get up close and personal with these fellas! We even went on a falconry hunt with a threesome of Harris Hawks! We only caught a couple of grasshoppers, no squirrels. We saw a pair of Bald Eagles on our hunt also! And the place was within driving distance (6hours). Camping, Yurts, and Lodge rooms. Check it out! http://www.degray.com/Default.aspx

So, FOOOOD:
Friday:
Breakfast - Egg scramble with onion'n'bell pepper, salsa, avocado and water
Lunch and trip snacks - Grilled Chicken Breast. Homemade Trail Mix (cranberries, raisins, cashews, pistachio, walnut, pine nut, sesame seed, almond), LaraBar (awesome for quick snacks. No preservatives, just nuts mostly. http://www.larabar.com/ ), Banana, Sunwell Mixed Veggie Chips (HEB). lots of water
Dinner - NY Strip steak, trimmed lean, Steamed broccoli'n'carrots, Baked Potato with butter. water (cheat)
Turn down - with our package we got cookies and hot cocoa for 2 nights! Definitely a cheat.
Saturday:
Breakfast - Scrambled fake eggs :( , cantaloupe, pineapple, sausage, and bacon, water
Snack - LaraBarx2
Lunch - Iceberg lettuce, carrots, tomato.(half of a side salad) water.
Snack - grapes.
Dinner - Grilled Chicken Salad. (iceberg, hard boiled egg, tomato, carrot, radish, cheese [cheat], and ranch dressing [very small amount/cheat]) Lots of water.
Turn down - cookie and cocoa
Sunday:
Breakfast - Scrambled fake eggs :( , cantalope, pineapple, red grapes, sausage, and bacon, water
Road Snacks - Banana, trail mix, Sunwell Carrot Chips (HEB), Grapes.
Dinner - (The last cheat meal for a few months) Chilis' Grilled Chicken Sandwich with Steamed Broccoli and carrots. My favorite part was the veggies!! Water

Ok, i feel like i did pretty good for being on a trip. At no time during the driving portion did I have the urge to stop at a restaurant and pick up something to munch on. That is a huge victory for me! The Dinners were a testing ground. I wanted to see how a cheat item would affect me. I felt very weighed down after a cheat item. And super full. Normally i feel satisfied, but not uncomfortably so, after eating a Paleo meal. I feel like I could go workout and there wouldn't be a problem, but after a cheat meal I felt like I couldn't move for the next hour. Lessons learned. ;)