Rocky Road start, but hobbling along

Well, apparently my plan was flawed. ‘Twas ill prepared to be on an impromptu diet, so I had to kind of make do with better “choices” over the weekend because our menu was just not (repeat NAHHHHHT) diet-friendly over the weekend. Beefy Mac and Hamburgers were on the menu for dinners and I will just say this for the record: on account of us being out of town for the next week and these items *already* being set up, I just rolled with it.


Friday night I had marinated chicken bewbs, cooked up some carrots and had a beauty of a leafy Romaine salad. Check! The small child ate the crap out of that chicken, too! So that went over really well.  I had a couple of extra bewbs leftover, so those went toward Saturday and Sunday meals for us as well.

Saturday started off pretty bad—David talked me in to going to our little breakfast café…half an hour later I floated out of there in a pancake induced euphoria the likes of which you’ve never seen.

The rest of the weekend was not as savvy as Friday night, so rather than focus on a “diet” per se, I focused on making “better choices”. Opting for leftover chicken/veggies or turkey over PB&J for lunch and fruit over chocolate for snacks, I kind of hobbled my way through the weekend. Limiting myself to ONE serving of my dinner plate as opposed to my usual two and having salad or steamed veggies for a side with each meal proved more difficult though. I had this vivid picture of some petrifying alien beast trying to claw its way through my belly to get to the second helpings its damn self. But I won. I’m the weiner.

Now it gets trickier. As always, I am having a harder time making good choices when I’m not at home. At home I can control my environment a bit more, out of town, doable but not as easy. So this week will very much be an uphill climb. But we’ll see if I can make any headway on getting the goose-egg off of my ticker by next week. One thing I did do yesterday was attend a water zumba class during my lunch hour. It was really fun. I had myself halfway talked out of going but got bullied and am so glad that I caved. I had a blast! I was totally zapped the rest of the day, but I got an hour of pool time and flailed about in the water like nobody’s business so that was good times. Truth be told, I’d love for water aerobics to take up the rest of the summer’s lunch hours.

I’m very seriously considering starting Weight Watchers again, but we’ll see how far off the ground that idea makes it. I have a buddy at work that just recently got off the WW wagon, so I’ve asked her if I can bum all of her goodies with point-values and meal ideas and whatnot and got the green light there. She’s been working her tail off lately doing aerobics classes with the girls at lunch, going to the gym wither husband and just watching what she’s eating and she’s lost 3 dress sizes probably over the past 3 months or so. She’s pretty inspiring.