Spring Fair food: a dieter's worst nightmare
Skip the soda and lemonade. Bring a bottle of water with you to swish around your mouth and hopefully dislodge some of the cotton candy eating into your enamel. Water will keep you hydrated and has no calories, which leaves room for an extra cup of sherbet.
This next guideline is important: watch your portion size. A strawberry, a smoothie, a bite of your friend's funnel cake and a kebab - limit yourself and aim for variety.
Try to get an appropriately sized portion of each food group. If you manage to consume an entire thing of cotton candy or plate of deep-fried Oreos, I suggest you avoid sweets after that and aim for the lean meats.
If you're attending the Beer Garden, I'm assuming you know the drinking drill as you're legal and have presumably been drinking for some time anyway.
Eat some food so you don't regurgitate pure liquid over Brody's lawn, and limit your drinking calorie-wise if you've just come from the food vendors.
It might be wise to have a small, healthy meal before you go to Spring Fair. If you are watching your diet and trying to lose weight, either stick to the guidelines above, or bring a yogurt and stare in hunger and longing as your friends stuff their faces with greasy Pad Thai and fried ice cream.
Remember, Spring Fair is a celebration of spring! Life! Small bunnies and dancing fawns! Edible leaves springing from earth! So try to be healthy, but if you can't resist the funnel cake and triple-fudge milkshake, I won't begrudge you the pleasure.
Eat up, try not to give it back to the world until it's past your duodenum and make up for it later by hitting the gym or avoiding dessert for a few days.
This next guideline is important: watch your portion size. A strawberry, a smoothie, a bite of your friend's funnel cake and a kebab - limit yourself and aim for variety.
Try to get an appropriately sized portion of each food group. If you manage to consume an entire thing of cotton candy or plate of deep-fried Oreos, I suggest you avoid sweets after that and aim for the lean meats.
If you're attending the Beer Garden, I'm assuming you know the drinking drill as you're legal and have presumably been drinking for some time anyway.
Eat some food so you don't regurgitate pure liquid over Brody's lawn, and limit your drinking calorie-wise if you've just come from the food vendors.
It might be wise to have a small, healthy meal before you go to Spring Fair. If you are watching your diet and trying to lose weight, either stick to the guidelines above, or bring a yogurt and stare in hunger and longing as your friends stuff their faces with greasy Pad Thai and fried ice cream.
Remember, Spring Fair is a celebration of spring! Life! Small bunnies and dancing fawns! Edible leaves springing from earth! So try to be healthy, but if you can't resist the funnel cake and triple-fudge milkshake, I won't begrudge you the pleasure.
Eat up, try not to give it back to the world until it's past your duodenum and make up for it later by hitting the gym or avoiding dessert for a few days.
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