We’ve just returned from our week on the big island of Hawaii. It is really hard to eat perfectly on vacation and it is even harder to explain to your vacation buddies that you don’t want to cook with oil or you don’t really like sweets and especially not chocolate or you’d like to eat regular meals instead of snacking endlessly. But here’s some of the stuff we ate.

John cooking ono for fish tacos

Mahi mahi with rce and vegetables at Merriman’s

Filet mignon, green beans, salad and bread with dipping sauce (I couldn’t be a total tyrant and make everyone eat fish every night)

Seared tuna, broccoli and tomatoes

Both John and I had this at the Keei Cafe – mahi mahi in a curry sauce, rice and vegetables

In addition to these meals we also had the fish that I’ve already written about on the first night and we had beef again on the last night. Except for the wine and snacks, I think we did pretty well. I played tennis most days for exercise. Nonetheless I gained 1 1/2 lbs.