Dawn’s Weight Loss Journey

There were a LOT of things, and writting it out will help me…I will mention the things I did not do great with, but will refuse to let them get to me…

So, I just had a scheduled four day social tornado…

It’s remarkable really, because usually I dont have a ton of things going on, nor the money to do them with…

But for some reason, from Thursday night through today, I was a social butterfly…

As we all know on this weight loss journey, ONE social event can make us or break us, but FOUR???

So here is the good, the bad, and the ugly…

Thursday- Thursday  I call a success…Beer tasting and Chinese which I previously blogged about was good. I made it through the night UNDER my caloric limit and still enjoyed myself immensely…

Friday-Friday I am going to say was not a success, but not a complete failure. The morning started with me running late, so I didnt pack my breakfast…FAIL…I have learned this lesson before…

So I got to work and had an egg sandwhich from the deli. I switched from the croissant to plain toast, left off the cheese and went with ham instead of sausage…PASS. Little things add up people…

I wrote the calories down, had my lunch later, and all and all felt okay. I was running a little high on my calories by dinner time AND I was eating a late dinner…FAIL…This is another lesson learned…

So we were meeting some friends for dinner at 7:30, and when I got home at 5 I was already at 800 calories. SO I knew it would be tight and I didnt want to eat a snack at home and waste more calories…

Well, we get to the restaraunt and my friend is running late and we were STARVED and we did a GIANT no no. We ordered an appetizer. Spinach Artichoke dip. FAIL…

I rebounded with my dinner when I ordered a Tomoato and Mozzarella Salad. Light. Healthy. And YUM. Add in the two beers I drank and I ended my night way too high. Just under 2000 calories…

Friday was not great. BUT, it could have been way worse. Dinner saved me. And in the past I would have just said screw it, and orderd the wings anyway…I did NOT do that this time. So I am going to focus on that.

Saturday-Saturday I was REALLY worried about. It was the Irish Festival. Lots of deep friend goodness and things on a stick. You know how  I love those!

I stopped at the C-Store and got a protein bar. Something I had NEVER done. But I didnt want a big heavy breakfast and I wanted to save most of my calories for the fest. It was a 300 calorie bar which made my heart hurt, but it did the trick…I was pretty good at teh festival. No, actually, I was really good…

I had a corned beef sandwich…Three of six deep fried pickles and one beer…ALL DAY…Not bad. Not bad at all…PASS!

(I will say that I did go back later to stand in line for some fries, or a funnel cake, but the line was so long I gave up. I decided it was a sign from god that I really didnt need it….And I really wasnt all that hungry…)

Sunday-We were supposed to get up early and head for Cleveland for another beer event…

Well, we woke up at six a.m. and decided it just wasnt a good idea. We were tired from being at the festival all day the day before. Brian was not feeling great. We have about 5 other things we could spend the money on that we would have spent, and I CERTAINLY didnt need another day of food and beer…So we stayed home…And this made Sunday a SUCCESS!!

I immediately grab my journal and start planning the days meals so I can get back on my track…

So this morning I review my journal…I hadnt pointed anything since THursday night..ANd I was tempted to skip Friday and Saturday and just work on today…

But then I decided against it…This my friends is another SUCCESS…

I went back and held myself accountable…I wrote down Friday and Saturday’s foods…And the damage was not near as bad as I thought…Friday was bad, but not life shattering…2000 calories…Saturday was about 1600 calories…Not great, but a thousand times better than I would have done years ago…

So out of four days, two were awesome. One was okay. And one disappointed me.

But here are my lessons. I have got to STOP letting myself get hungry. WHen I am hungry I lose all power to make good decisions. My stomach over rules my head ALWAYS…

I need to plan better. I did a decent job but I need to do better. I should have had a light snack prepared for Friday before dinner, and this would have helped me skip the Spinach Artichoke dip. It also would have helped with my breakfast at work.

And the other thing I learned is that I am going to be okay. No. Really.

I wrote in my journal even though I didnt want too.

I came on here to blog and read blogs.

And I did a ton of walking to help curb the calories….

I talked myself out of things several times, and overall, made better choices this time than I have PROBABLY on any other time on this journey…

So over all, I am with my gal Nikki on this one. I had a great week, lots of fun with friends…But I am soooooooooooo ready to get RIGHT BACK AT MY ROUTINE…

And this week I VOW I will finally join my YMCA so I can start doing my elliptical. I am tired of talking about it and now just need to do it…

Oh…Just one slightly amusing side note…

That scale thats now in the hallway…You know, the one that has special mind controling powers?

Yeah. It got Brian today.

I watched, amused, as he stood on it. Got off it. And got back on it.

He says “OH, that cant be right…”

Well, I saw what it said. And I saw what it said last week when he weighed…And he was up about 4 pounds…

He was in complete denial…LOL…

I said “See…You see how frustrating it can be to go up and down over night?? THIS is why I refuse to weigh daily…Far too many fluxuations…”

I gotta say…

It was nice to see a man experiencing a little bit of scale anger…