I'm Being so Good!

Since my return from Chicago, I've been eating a very healthy diet! I've been drinking so much water that I'm sure there will be wear marks in the floor between the kitchen and the bathroom. I've been eating my veggies. I haven't touched any sugar, I've kept the fats to a minimum, and everything has been 100% whole grain.

I actually feel so much better when I eat this way. I'm not sure why I have those temporary forays into fat-girl world. For immediate gratification, I suppose. Anyway, it's not worth it.

Here's what I ate yesterday:

Morning
4 oz Dannon Activia Lowfat Peach yogurt
1/3 cup Kellogg's Bran Buds All-Bran
Midday
3/4 cup canned garbanzo beans

1/3 cup onion(s)

1 tsp vegetable oil

1 tsp McNeil Nutritionals SPLENDA No Calorie Sweetener
2 Tbsp vinegar
Evening
2 serving Szechwan Pork (Weight Watcher's recipe)
2 Tbsp Fisher Crunchy Peanut Butter
1 slice ww bread
1 Skinny Cow 100 cal. ice cream sandwich

Oh, Well!

I just returned from several days in the Windy City. We had a ball! I walked everywhere. Unfortunately, it didn't whittle anything off of my backside. Could have something to do with the cooked-to-order breakfast every morning or eating my weight in snack mix every evening at the manager's reception. Somehow, when I go away, the cheapskate in me wins over the dieter in me. Our room was paid for by Jim's company (he was there for a two-day certification exam). The breakfast comes with the room. So does the manager's reception. It's such a nice break for a mom to have these luxuries. Every morning I had an omelet with lots of veggies (so far so good), bacon (okay we're moving downhill), hashbrowns (aaahhh), and lots of juice and........a glazed doughnut (guilt, guilt, guilt). I usually had a reasonable lunch and then around 5:30 we'd go play Scrabble or Boggle in the lobby while consuming piles of snack mix and a combination of grapefruit juice and cranberry juice which was provided at the complimentary manager's reception.

I'd like to say I feel horrible about it, but I suppose I really don't. I didn't sweat it while I was having fun with my family. We don't have any trips or special occassions coming up any time soon. Other than the fact that it put back on a few pounds I had already lost, I'm not too worried about it. I'll be right back on track on Monday.

Planned Wreckless Abandon

This weekend, my beloved and I celebrated our 24th anniversary! Back in January, I posted that this would be one of my planned exceptions from the world of dieting. It was wonderful and hey, as long as I'm sitting around NOT losing anything, I might as well enjoy a petit filet in demi-glace once in a while, right? It was wonderful. I didn't go completely hogwild crazy the whole weekend, but it was nice to not think about points or anything else for two days. From our hotel we walked to anywhere we needed to go so I didn't feel like a total slug. Other than that I didn't worry about putting in time on a treadmill, it's not particularly romantic sweating in the hotel gym. In my opinion there are more, um, interesting ways to burn off calories on one's anniversary anyway.

So, this morning I had my hot whole grain cereal for breakfast and I'm back to the reality of disciplined eating no matter how pointless it seems some weeks. Overall I am losing. The numbers on the scale are not moving upward so that in itself is a victory. I'm not planning on weighing less this Wednesday as I am in that point in the month where my weight gets wacky. The next Wednesday should be stellar.

Have a good week! I plan to.

You've Been Served!!!

The remaining fat on my body apparently isn't leaving without an eviction notice signed by a federal judge. I don't know what else it could be waiting for. I'm doing the right things. I haven't even looked at a piece of candy wistfully or flirted with any white bread or rice. I've eaten more unadorned vegetables than the jolly green giant. I've consumed enough water to float the Queen Elizabeth II, and I've ingested enough fiber to keep a wooly mammoth regular.

Everyone that loses weight for the long haul goes through these times. I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. Eventually, the wall I've been hitting will disappear and the pounds will start dropping again. My anniversary is only about a week away and I was hoping to be a few pounds lighter by then. Just goes to show that I can't be hung up on the results(over which I have no control), only my behavior (over which I have all the control, unfortunately for me at times).

So.........no loss for this week.

How are the rest of you doing?

Surviving the Super Bowl

How delightful. I just wrote a whole post for today, then the cat traipsed across the keyboard of my laptop and deleted it all. I have used up all my creativity and time for the day, so this will be a short post.

I'm doing well.
Survived the super bowl food-wise. (had taco salad instead of tilapia...mom's choice)
Stayed away from garbage food.
Drank lots of water/tea.
My Giants won (last time the Giants were in the superbowl, I barely noticed because I was in shock at finding out I was 'with child' at age 41)

Nothing much new. I'll post my what I ate later. Lucky you.

Finally!

The scale is finally starting to reflect my good behavior! This is a good thing. Now I don't have to quit in disgust. Okay...I wouldn't really quit. I'm too far into this thing now.

Tonight is the SuperBowl and my parents are coming over to watch it with us. My mom is WW-ing as well so we can both eat our baked tilapia with fresh fruit salsa & brown rice whilst the testosterone-laden 'thin crowd' can stuff their faces full of cheesy potatoes, buffalo wings, and all manor of things that would certainly increase the volume of lard on my now-dwindling carcass. Hurray for us.

No planned walks today, but if I can get some reading done in the Core Performance Essentials book, I might just spend some time using the stability ball later. My children certainly will laugh at my inability to do this with any ease, but let them. In eight months I will be the one laughing. I teasingly taunted my very buff 17-yr-old son that I will be able to out-run him (distance-wise) by the end of the summer. He said his pride wouldn't let that happen. So I think we're all going to be winners here. His pride will get him in even better shape then he is now.

My 6-yr-old daughter told me that she likes laying her head on my stomach because it's "soft and mushy. Well, isn't that special? Oh well, more motivation to work hard on that stability ball.

How is everyone else doing out there in blogland?

Still Sticking to It, Just Busy

Next week I'll be back to posting my daily intake for my own sake, but for the time being I just wanted to post that I have been focused and staying on track.