I didn't realize it had been so long since I stopped by here. The summer was difficult to stay on track. I held steady though. I just didn't work hard like I should have or I would be much further along than I am.
Now that the kids are in school, I have a little bit of time for myself. Especially in the mornings, till 11am, as my youngest is now in Pre-K. But it's just under 3 hours that he's gone. Yet it's enough time for me. So I've been going to the gym on T,W,TH,F. I love this time to myself. I can put my headphones on and no one is poking me or asking me questions every 2.3 seconds. I can get on that treadmill or elliptical and actually listen to my own music, MY OWN, not Kids Bop, or some other random thing. I don't have to worry about anyone getting into anything they shouldn't be, because they are all at school! It is all ME time. And I love it! It sounds selfish, but I never really realized that I don't get that kind of time very often where I can turn my mind off and not keep watch every 2 minutes. It's a very peaceful feeling. And when I'm done with the treadmill, I leave the headphones on and go hit the circuit weights. The weights are my favorite part. I love feeling my muscles stretching out.
So one day, I met up with Jerry, a personal trainer. He's 60 years old, but he could take down the closest 18 year old before they even blinked. He was so patient and kind with me and I felt comfortable instantly. It's nice to have someone so encouraging inside that gym when you need the help. We will revisit my needs in 6 weeks and switch up my program some.
But there has already been a bump in the road. Last week, I came down with the nastiest cold I've had in a long time. Today is one week and I am still down for the count. It's not the flu, but it's one of the nastiest colds I've ever come across outside of the flu. I was worried about not working out, but I've been coughing so much that I think I've been burning as many cardio and circuit weight calories by hacking so much. And I am not hungry either, must be because of all of the snot I can't help but swallow (Ewww, I know, gross) so I have had no appetite either and really not eating much. I was worried though, about not working out this week and laying around so much that I would gain weight. But I'm happy to report that I am down 4lbs this week! So if I HAD TO HAVE a cold, then I'm glad I can at least walk away with a 4lb loss. Won't make me feel SO bad for having missed a week.
I'm hoping to get back to the gym by Tuesday morning and get this whole thing back on track for me.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about food lately, for health benefits, for reasons outside of my own health. And I admit I'm confused as to the correct way to eat. I love WW, because I can eat what I want within reason, but I also think it's time I make some big changes in my family, the way we have been eating and I'm starting to understand just how bad eating processed food can be for your body, your health and it's a bit of a wake up call. I'm really leaning to eating whole foods/clean eating. It will be a very big adjustment for our family, and I'm thinking a slow conversion will be best (while I read up and learn myself). A lifestyle change needs to take place in this house as soon as possible. It will be difficult for a while, but I want my family to have the best benefits through health that I can. It means breaking some very bad longterm habits.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Pizza
I have lost 12 pounds altogether. But I think I can do better. While I've been making better choices, there are times I could do much better. I truly struggle with food. For example, I've been wanting pizza. Really bad. I miss it. So yesterday, the boys and I were in the pool all morning. I teetered on the edge of ordering pizza or making our lunch. In the end, the pizza won. But the pizza didn't taste as good as I was imagining it would. And I felt guilty for eating it. So we went back out to the pool for the rest of the afternoon. I worked and played hard in the pool all day yesterday. Did some cardio and of course playing with the boys burns a lot of calories too.
Fortunately, the scale did not show my pizza binge. Nor did I lose weight. But I didn't gain. I'm the same today as I was yesterday. Only today, I will eat my healthy lunch and not feel guilty!
Fortunately, the scale did not show my pizza binge. Nor did I lose weight. But I didn't gain. I'm the same today as I was yesterday. Only today, I will eat my healthy lunch and not feel guilty!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
GIRLS WEEKEND!!!
Each year, the last weekend of June (well, really from that Wednesday through Sunday) my two friends, Michelle and Jen, we get together. All of our kids (and between us, that's 8 kids) are all left with the husbands and or grandparents. We get together at my house and we do nothing but swim, soak up the sun, gossip, shop and eat. This has been such a blessing to me each year. The chance to guilt free send my children to grandma's house and get the much deserved mommy break that I need!
I was a little worried about this particular visit in regards to me eating and losing weight. I decided not to stress about it and just eat. Not out of control, but a stickler either. I ended up losing just over 4lbs over the 5 days that my girlfriends were here. That just blows my mind. We ate at Outback one night, then Miyako another night (Japanese Steakhouse) and some home made things. I was shocked! I thought for sure I would gain, but I didn't. Either way, I'm still happy. I think it's good to shake things up every now and then and keep your body guessing. While I don't have another "Shake Up" in the plan, I will remember this when I hit a plateau.
Or is it that my kids were at Grandma's for 5 days and I wasn't stressed? LOL!!
Only time will tell.
I was a little worried about this particular visit in regards to me eating and losing weight. I decided not to stress about it and just eat. Not out of control, but a stickler either. I ended up losing just over 4lbs over the 5 days that my girlfriends were here. That just blows my mind. We ate at Outback one night, then Miyako another night (Japanese Steakhouse) and some home made things. I was shocked! I thought for sure I would gain, but I didn't. Either way, I'm still happy. I think it's good to shake things up every now and then and keep your body guessing. While I don't have another "Shake Up" in the plan, I will remember this when I hit a plateau.
Or is it that my kids were at Grandma's for 5 days and I wasn't stressed? LOL!!
Only time will tell.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Breakfast IS the most important meal of the day!
I've heard it and read it for years, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You should never skip breakfast, yada, yada, yada...
In my adult life, I rarely ate a regular breakfast, unless we were going out to eat for breakfast or on vacation. Since I've had kids (my oldest is 9 1/2) I've made sure to feed them breakfast of Oatmeal, pancakes, fruit, cereal, healthy things. But I never sat down to eat breakfast. Unless we went out and of course, if we went out to B'fast, I certainly didn't chose healthy things.
A few months ago, I was reading some more info and decided I would really give breakfast a good try. For years, my breakfast has been a 24 ounce coffee and sometimes a donut on the go, to go with my hot drink. But as the day would wear on, I would get jittery from the caffeine and blood sugar crashes, so bad that I would eat whatever I could get my hands on for lunch and it usually wasn't a good choice. Then I'd find myself making up for more food around dinner time and making even worse choices. It was a constant battle. And even though I knew I should eat B'fast, it never occurred to me that if I did eat B'fast, that maybe the rest of my day could be more controlled than it had been.
So I did some research on how to best fill myself up in the morning to set my day up for the better. I hate eggs. But I decided to give them another try and found out that I really like eggs over easy or over medium. So how best to fry and egg without really frying it? I bought Olive Oil Spray Pam. Then cooked the egg that way. Very little oil, since it's a spray, so technically I don't consider the egg fried. I found I really like the egg with a lot of fresh ground pepper. But surely one egg is not enough. More protein would be another option, but I really didn't want unhealthy bacon or sausage and I really like the veggie soy meat, so I opted for Morning Star Farms Veggie sausages (SO GOOD!) and then I figured I needed some sort of carb, but decided to aim for a complex carb instead of a heavily refined carb. I ended up narrowing down my carb to Thomas's Whole Grain Lite English Muffins. Oh, these are SO good. But I didn't want it plain and I didn't want it with butter either. So I did some more reading and found out that laughing cow lite cheese wedges sounded pretty good and ended up choosing the French Onion. But I wanted something sweet too. So I used the wedge on one side and then used Smuckers Simply Fruit on the other side, in raspberry. This meal is so rounded for me that it satisfies me in ways I didn't know a breakfast could. And sure enough, I felt great after eating this breakfast. I wasn't as ravenously hungry at lunch time and I felt that I could make a much more reasonable decision for my lunch meal and that I wouldn't end up on a binge that I couldn't control. And since I ate a decent lunch, I felt I was better to plan a decent dinner too. Especially if I made a conscious effort to snack sometime between lunch and dinner. I found that I wanted to make my own dinner of chicken and veggies instead of picking up the phone and ordering pizza. I'm not saying that I never gave into my binges, but this plan was working out a hell of a lot better for me than anything had in the last 10 years. So I decided Breakfast was indeed the most important meal of the day. If you get started right with the right filling foods, your body will have the fuel it needs to get started for the day. Your stomach (and brain) will be filled with the right things propelling you (me) to make better decisions regarding other meals in the day. If I started off FEELING like I made great choices for breakfast, I felt like it was easier to set myself up with better meals for the rest of the day.
I've been eating B'fast like this for a few months. I alter my meals around, substitute my English muffin for Oatmeal once in a while or a greek yogurt with fruit in place of the egg and I feel satisfied and full. I'm grateful for finally figuring this out. If I set myself up in the morning, the day usually ends up much better than it would be if I didn't set that first meal up.
Now that I'm on WW, my breakfast still holds me. My breakfast is also my highest point meal of the day. But it's so worth it. I spend about 12 points on my breakfast. That does sound high. But I still have plenty of points left for the day, especially if I supplement with a large volume of healthy salad filled with tons of veggies (I usually use lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers with light or FF zesty italian dressing, I'll add fresh motz too) or a low point or the WW soup, before I eat my actual meal. This ends up helping me a lot. Normally, I'd be tempted to go back for 2nds on my entree and that's a big problem for me. But if I eat my soup or salad first, before my entree, then I'm full and mostly satisfied and less likely to go back for seconds. And since veggies are NO points on WW, if I am hungry and want more, go back for another salad!
I'm still at the top of my journey to lose weight, but this is something that has really become apparent to me in the last two weeks, that breakfast means more than ever if it's going to help curb my appetite for the rest of the day and lead me to make better choices.
In my adult life, I rarely ate a regular breakfast, unless we were going out to eat for breakfast or on vacation. Since I've had kids (my oldest is 9 1/2) I've made sure to feed them breakfast of Oatmeal, pancakes, fruit, cereal, healthy things. But I never sat down to eat breakfast. Unless we went out and of course, if we went out to B'fast, I certainly didn't chose healthy things.
A few months ago, I was reading some more info and decided I would really give breakfast a good try. For years, my breakfast has been a 24 ounce coffee and sometimes a donut on the go, to go with my hot drink. But as the day would wear on, I would get jittery from the caffeine and blood sugar crashes, so bad that I would eat whatever I could get my hands on for lunch and it usually wasn't a good choice. Then I'd find myself making up for more food around dinner time and making even worse choices. It was a constant battle. And even though I knew I should eat B'fast, it never occurred to me that if I did eat B'fast, that maybe the rest of my day could be more controlled than it had been.
So I did some research on how to best fill myself up in the morning to set my day up for the better. I hate eggs. But I decided to give them another try and found out that I really like eggs over easy or over medium. So how best to fry and egg without really frying it? I bought Olive Oil Spray Pam. Then cooked the egg that way. Very little oil, since it's a spray, so technically I don't consider the egg fried. I found I really like the egg with a lot of fresh ground pepper. But surely one egg is not enough. More protein would be another option, but I really didn't want unhealthy bacon or sausage and I really like the veggie soy meat, so I opted for Morning Star Farms Veggie sausages (SO GOOD!) and then I figured I needed some sort of carb, but decided to aim for a complex carb instead of a heavily refined carb. I ended up narrowing down my carb to Thomas's Whole Grain Lite English Muffins. Oh, these are SO good. But I didn't want it plain and I didn't want it with butter either. So I did some more reading and found out that laughing cow lite cheese wedges sounded pretty good and ended up choosing the French Onion. But I wanted something sweet too. So I used the wedge on one side and then used Smuckers Simply Fruit on the other side, in raspberry. This meal is so rounded for me that it satisfies me in ways I didn't know a breakfast could. And sure enough, I felt great after eating this breakfast. I wasn't as ravenously hungry at lunch time and I felt that I could make a much more reasonable decision for my lunch meal and that I wouldn't end up on a binge that I couldn't control. And since I ate a decent lunch, I felt I was better to plan a decent dinner too. Especially if I made a conscious effort to snack sometime between lunch and dinner. I found that I wanted to make my own dinner of chicken and veggies instead of picking up the phone and ordering pizza. I'm not saying that I never gave into my binges, but this plan was working out a hell of a lot better for me than anything had in the last 10 years. So I decided Breakfast was indeed the most important meal of the day. If you get started right with the right filling foods, your body will have the fuel it needs to get started for the day. Your stomach (and brain) will be filled with the right things propelling you (me) to make better decisions regarding other meals in the day. If I started off FEELING like I made great choices for breakfast, I felt like it was easier to set myself up with better meals for the rest of the day.
I've been eating B'fast like this for a few months. I alter my meals around, substitute my English muffin for Oatmeal once in a while or a greek yogurt with fruit in place of the egg and I feel satisfied and full. I'm grateful for finally figuring this out. If I set myself up in the morning, the day usually ends up much better than it would be if I didn't set that first meal up.
Now that I'm on WW, my breakfast still holds me. My breakfast is also my highest point meal of the day. But it's so worth it. I spend about 12 points on my breakfast. That does sound high. But I still have plenty of points left for the day, especially if I supplement with a large volume of healthy salad filled with tons of veggies (I usually use lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers with light or FF zesty italian dressing, I'll add fresh motz too) or a low point or the WW soup, before I eat my actual meal. This ends up helping me a lot. Normally, I'd be tempted to go back for 2nds on my entree and that's a big problem for me. But if I eat my soup or salad first, before my entree, then I'm full and mostly satisfied and less likely to go back for seconds. And since veggies are NO points on WW, if I am hungry and want more, go back for another salad!
I'm still at the top of my journey to lose weight, but this is something that has really become apparent to me in the last two weeks, that breakfast means more than ever if it's going to help curb my appetite for the rest of the day and lead me to make better choices.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Flex Points?
I abused and used all of my flex points over the weekend. But I just realized that there is a good way to use those flex points and a bad way to use those flex points (are they still called Flex points? - just looked it up, it's now called Points Plus Allowance) PPA from here on out! There are 49 weekly PPA that you can use in any way you like. You can use them all in one day, you can spread them out all week, you can divide them up per day if you'd like. Well, I chose to use all of mine on Saturday night and Sunday morning. As it is I get a very generous amount of daily points. So much that I have found that I am unable to use all of my points in one day, which is a BIG NO NO. But I've been filling up on Salad (because I LOVE it!) and very small portions of food (I need to learn small portions, over eating is a big one for me) I find that I'm usually about 10 points short for the day. So how can I actually use my PPA for the week when I can't even finish my points for the day? I do know that it won't always work out that way. I'm new in the program and am being very careful of what I eat. I know there will come a time where I will wish I had more points and more PPA to use, this past Saturday night and Sunday morning are very good examples of that! I'm rambling, but there is a point to all of this.
So Saturday night, we met up with some former students of my husbands EMT (Emergency Medical Training) class and they wanted to eat dinner at Famous Dave's. Saturday was SUCH a busy day that I had only had 10 points worth of food all day, by the time we got to dinner (I wasn't hungry throughout the day though, only when I got to Famous Dave's that night) So I looked up my meal points in my Restaurant Guide & I had plenty of points left in my daily, plus a few PPA that I wouldn't even use all of my PPA. I had been eating so small all week that I got so full, so fast that I was uncomfortable. I will remember that next time!
Then yesterday morning (Sunday) we met my family (Brother, mom, Grandfather) at Cheesecake Factory for Brunch in Annapolis to say goodbye to my little brother who leaves for bootcamp the next day (Monday, which is today, he's on a plane now, headed to SC) I decided to have my favorite dish, spicy Chicken Thai Pasta, the lunch size and avocado rolls to share with everyone as an appetizer. Unfortunately Cheesecake Factory is NOT in my restaurant guide, I should have looked up the nutritional values on the internet for CCF before I left home, I would have chosen MUCH differently. So I did not eat again until around 6:30, because I was still stuffed from brunch. We ate at my sister in law's house at a party. I started out with a few small pieces of fruit & cauliflower (Free, no points!) then had a hotdog (and then ate Evan's since he didn't finish his - WHY did I do that???????!!!!) and then had a small piece of cake.
I go to figure out all of my points from CCF and dinner last night and I can't calculate my points from CCF because they only list the calories and sodium of the meals online. How frustrating. So I don't know just how over and beyond I blew my daily points, plus my PPA.
Now I know that there's a good way and a bad way to use your PPA's. Blow them on healthier food, not bad food. It does make a difference.
Even though WW says to eat all of your points in your day and even though they say that daily points can't/don't/won't carry over from day to day, I am just hoping that my extra points that I didn't eat all week long will save me from this horrible weekend of eating. Even though I counted out my points from Saturday and used PPA, I'm sure I exceeded my daily 45 points. I will work very hard this week to make up for that. I ended up choosing to use my points on serious junk, which had a lot of sodium in it and I'm realizing now that it's not really okay to use PPA for those types of things. I didn't really think about it that way before. In my head, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. But you can choose better calories and still be satisfied.
I hope this post made sense. It was a learning experience for me. I tend to bounce all over the place and ramble. But I have all the tools I need to make better choices. I made better choices all last week and I let the thought of using Daily Points and using PPA to eat things I wanted, but I realize now that not all points are created equal!
So Saturday night, we met up with some former students of my husbands EMT (Emergency Medical Training) class and they wanted to eat dinner at Famous Dave's. Saturday was SUCH a busy day that I had only had 10 points worth of food all day, by the time we got to dinner (I wasn't hungry throughout the day though, only when I got to Famous Dave's that night) So I looked up my meal points in my Restaurant Guide & I had plenty of points left in my daily, plus a few PPA that I wouldn't even use all of my PPA. I had been eating so small all week that I got so full, so fast that I was uncomfortable. I will remember that next time!
Then yesterday morning (Sunday) we met my family (Brother, mom, Grandfather) at Cheesecake Factory for Brunch in Annapolis to say goodbye to my little brother who leaves for bootcamp the next day (Monday, which is today, he's on a plane now, headed to SC) I decided to have my favorite dish, spicy Chicken Thai Pasta, the lunch size and avocado rolls to share with everyone as an appetizer. Unfortunately Cheesecake Factory is NOT in my restaurant guide, I should have looked up the nutritional values on the internet for CCF before I left home, I would have chosen MUCH differently. So I did not eat again until around 6:30, because I was still stuffed from brunch. We ate at my sister in law's house at a party. I started out with a few small pieces of fruit & cauliflower (Free, no points!) then had a hotdog (and then ate Evan's since he didn't finish his - WHY did I do that???????!!!!) and then had a small piece of cake.
I go to figure out all of my points from CCF and dinner last night and I can't calculate my points from CCF because they only list the calories and sodium of the meals online. How frustrating. So I don't know just how over and beyond I blew my daily points, plus my PPA.
Now I know that there's a good way and a bad way to use your PPA's. Blow them on healthier food, not bad food. It does make a difference.
Even though WW says to eat all of your points in your day and even though they say that daily points can't/don't/won't carry over from day to day, I am just hoping that my extra points that I didn't eat all week long will save me from this horrible weekend of eating. Even though I counted out my points from Saturday and used PPA, I'm sure I exceeded my daily 45 points. I will work very hard this week to make up for that. I ended up choosing to use my points on serious junk, which had a lot of sodium in it and I'm realizing now that it's not really okay to use PPA for those types of things. I didn't really think about it that way before. In my head, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. But you can choose better calories and still be satisfied.
I hope this post made sense. It was a learning experience for me. I tend to bounce all over the place and ramble. But I have all the tools I need to make better choices. I made better choices all last week and I let the thought of using Daily Points and using PPA to eat things I wanted, but I realize now that not all points are created equal!
Friday, June 10, 2011
7lbs down!
I went to my weigh in this morning and I lost exactly 7lbs! I am so happy. I've literally been on a weight loss high all day long. Talk about motivation to keep it up. I was hoping to get the chance to brag at the meeting about my loss, but I was a little bit late getting in and I missed "Bragging Rights"time! Oh well!
I love summer veggies. The farm down the road from me is really starting to get a lot of their fresh stuff in. I love tomatoes. I eat those every day. They are my favorite. Big, fat, red, farm tomatoes are the best! Can't wait for them to get even more stuff in from the fields. I'm going to take advantage of this time to try a lot of recipes and salads with as many veggies as I can. I'm eating my salad right now, hence the veggie post!
Well, not really a lot to talk about other than that! I did good this week!
I love summer veggies. The farm down the road from me is really starting to get a lot of their fresh stuff in. I love tomatoes. I eat those every day. They are my favorite. Big, fat, red, farm tomatoes are the best! Can't wait for them to get even more stuff in from the fields. I'm going to take advantage of this time to try a lot of recipes and salads with as many veggies as I can. I'm eating my salad right now, hence the veggie post!
Well, not really a lot to talk about other than that! I did good this week!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Switched Days
So I am switching my weigh in days at WW to Friday mornings. This is the meeting that is "Child Friendly" LOL! My boys can sit in the back playing on Dsi's and iPads while I get weighed in and hear the meeting. I use bribes. The playground will be their reward if they behave. If not, they've got some chores to do when we get home for mis-behaving. Usually though, they surprise me and are well behaved when I need them to be. So will keep my fingers crossed!
I'm excited for this weigh in. I've been doing very well. I've seen a big drop on my home scale. But I have no clue if my home scale is calibrated anywhere close to the WW scale. Either way, the numbers have gone down. Enough to make me smile really big.
I feel really good too. I feel proud that I've had the control to make the decision to make better choices. Normally I'd eat what I want to and then feel horrible guilt & belittle myself later. But the last week, I've made much better choices and I realized today that I haven't been beating myself up, because I've been eating right, that making those better choices have taken some stress off of me.
Even though you can eat anything you want with WW, as long as it fits within your points range, I've decided that sugar and refined carbs are a huge part of my problem. I've known this for a long time. I decided to really cut back hard on some of those things to give my body the chance to heal from all of the sugar and refined abuse. Those first few days were so hard. I kept finding myself wandering back and forth between the pantry, the fridge and the freezer. I'm so glad I found nothing there. I know that those cravings won't always be gone and that I'll be faced with them again and probably very soon. But just knowing that I feel so much better today than I did a few days ago because I cut some of these things out, really help put things into perspective for me.
I went out all day to a local water park with my boys. We ate lunch before we went. I made sure I did. Later in the afternoon, we did go get a snack. Normally I would get nacho's with lots of cheese and splurge on a soda. I ended up choosing a grilled chicken salad. My son did get the nachos. I had one. I chewed it for a long time. I really tasted it. And then I decided that it was never really as good as I thought it was. I was just shoving junk in my mouth. I enjoyed my Grilled Chicken salad today. I also forgot to bring my drink with me (Crystal light lemonade junkie here) and the only soda I really like is an ICE COLD COKE (from the can is my vice!) and I had to choose what to drink from the soda fountain. In the end, I chose Diet Pepsi, which I HATE, detest. But in the end, it was better to drink the diet pepsi than to give in to the sugar laden orange or rootbeer. I did bring bottled water with me, but it was warm. YUCK. Won't drink warm water! LOL! The Jen from last week would have easily taken the orange or rootbeer over the nasty diet pepsi. Lesson learned.... never go anywhere without MY water bottle and to go stix of Crystal light lemonade!
Anyway, my thoughts are all over the place. I'm on a dieters high right now. I'm on a roll and I feel good. I'm going to remember this feeling so that when I'm tempted to make a bad choice or something that falls out of my points range, I'm going to remember how good I feel about me and the choices I've made lately.
I'm excited for this weigh in. I've been doing very well. I've seen a big drop on my home scale. But I have no clue if my home scale is calibrated anywhere close to the WW scale. Either way, the numbers have gone down. Enough to make me smile really big.
I feel really good too. I feel proud that I've had the control to make the decision to make better choices. Normally I'd eat what I want to and then feel horrible guilt & belittle myself later. But the last week, I've made much better choices and I realized today that I haven't been beating myself up, because I've been eating right, that making those better choices have taken some stress off of me.
Even though you can eat anything you want with WW, as long as it fits within your points range, I've decided that sugar and refined carbs are a huge part of my problem. I've known this for a long time. I decided to really cut back hard on some of those things to give my body the chance to heal from all of the sugar and refined abuse. Those first few days were so hard. I kept finding myself wandering back and forth between the pantry, the fridge and the freezer. I'm so glad I found nothing there. I know that those cravings won't always be gone and that I'll be faced with them again and probably very soon. But just knowing that I feel so much better today than I did a few days ago because I cut some of these things out, really help put things into perspective for me.
I went out all day to a local water park with my boys. We ate lunch before we went. I made sure I did. Later in the afternoon, we did go get a snack. Normally I would get nacho's with lots of cheese and splurge on a soda. I ended up choosing a grilled chicken salad. My son did get the nachos. I had one. I chewed it for a long time. I really tasted it. And then I decided that it was never really as good as I thought it was. I was just shoving junk in my mouth. I enjoyed my Grilled Chicken salad today. I also forgot to bring my drink with me (Crystal light lemonade junkie here) and the only soda I really like is an ICE COLD COKE (from the can is my vice!) and I had to choose what to drink from the soda fountain. In the end, I chose Diet Pepsi, which I HATE, detest. But in the end, it was better to drink the diet pepsi than to give in to the sugar laden orange or rootbeer. I did bring bottled water with me, but it was warm. YUCK. Won't drink warm water! LOL! The Jen from last week would have easily taken the orange or rootbeer over the nasty diet pepsi. Lesson learned.... never go anywhere without MY water bottle and to go stix of Crystal light lemonade!
Anyway, my thoughts are all over the place. I'm on a dieters high right now. I'm on a roll and I feel good. I'm going to remember this feeling so that when I'm tempted to make a bad choice or something that falls out of my points range, I'm going to remember how good I feel about me and the choices I've made lately.
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