A fresh start

Wow, what a challenging weekend that was!

Saturday day time I was doing very well, then we went to a murder mystery at a friend’s house. We had brought veggies and dip for the appetizer, and I knew that we were having chicken and Greek salad for dinner. So the meal was a very healthy option for me, which made my life much easier. So we eat dinner and I am pretty full (plus the dress I was wearing was already pretty snug). Then after a little while they opened dessert, which is usually not such a big deal… but one of our friends is an amazing baker (and that is a understatement). She had made carrot cupcakes (I hate carrot cake, so no big issue right?), and a pie and cookies. So I took a small piece of pie, a cookie, and yes…a carrot cupcake. Why? Who knows, but it was amazing. All of it. The pie was so good, the cookie was delicious, but the carrot cupcake (and I don’t even LIKE carrot cake) was pretty much the best thing I had in my life. Packed full of sugar and fat and all of things I am trying so hard to stay away from. So I had already taken too much dessert, and was still very full from dinner. But do you think that stopped me from having a second cupcake later in the evening? And then even after that half of my husbands cupcake? So for dessert (that I was not planning on having) I had a piece of pie, a cookie, and 2.5 cupcakes.

But Sunday is the start of my week, and I was determined to get back on the wagon and track/weigh measure everything. That is my goal for this week. To track/weight and measure everything honestly. Because I know I’m not going to be successful if I don’t even have a good idea of what I am eating.

I started off with some oatmeal – tracked it. Lunch was a deli sandwich made at home, with pickles and orange wedges on the side – tracked it. We were going to Kitchener for a family birthday and for dinner we always do one of two things, order in pizza or go to Swiss Chalet. So I knew either way that I was covered and could make a good healthy choice. I was mentally prepared for this too! But then there was cake, and not just any cake…Costco cake. I was cutting the pieces so I had control over how big they were. But I cut some really really large pieces. I did cut a slightly (very slightly) smaller piece for myself. I ate it and right away counted the points for it. Which I’m not really sure what it was since there was no nutritional information but I trying to be as honest as possible, and count high. Then we did end up ordering pizza for dinner which was no problem because I ordered a salad and had one slice of pizza. I counted it all. THEN I proceeded, to have a few small bites of cake, a small chocolate bar, and some chocolate milk to wash it all down. I used about 35 of my weekly points allowance just on this extra food. And the cake was not near as good as those carrot cupcakes from the night before.

I am telling you all of this to be 100% accountable. I did track everything I ate yesterday and know that I don’t have many points left over this week so I will have to earn some activity points.

Todays meals will be:

Shake for breakfast

Shake for lunch

Apple and peanut butter for snack

Grilled cheese and soup for dinner

Oranges for snack

I also have a 2 hour soccer practice tonight so I can get some good exercise in there too.

Again, my challenge (and promise to myself) is to weight/measure and track everything accurately. And although I know I can’t undo what I ate this weekend, I do know that I can start fresh today and try to learn from my mistakes – which happened to be being unprepared for what was going to be there/ not being able to control my environment.