Day Twenty-six

It's Saturday and I did my weigh-in.  It was a favorable number, just not what I was hoping.  250lbs but was hoping for under 250.  Still can't complain as it could have been worse I could have gained weight.  The interesting thing is that this time I remembered to weigh myself before breakfast.  Last week when I had gained the three pounds from the week before I weighed myself after breakfast.  So this week as an experiment I weighed myself after breakfast and guess what, I weighed three pounds more than the earlier weigh in.  So I stressed out about those three pounds for pretty much no reason.  Actually quite typical I would imagine in the overall scheme of things.  Ha.  Alright here's the story for Saturday:

Breakfast: Oatmeal w/tbsp of honey and 20oz of cold water.

Snack: no snack just my Saturday meeting with L.  One hour of someone telling me what to do and how to do it.  I always leave the gym happy and excited to get my day moving.  L always has a way of getting me to think about not just eating and working out but what's involved.  I always will look forward to the Sat workout.

Lunch: After the workout I went for a chicken thigh sandwich on rye bread with tomato, avocado and a small spinach salad.  It had some tomato and quinoa.  Excellent lunch.  I also had some carrot chips (instead of the pop chips in my pantry)

Dinner: Sigh....ok it's Saturday, so not only do I get in my time with L, but the evening brings the D&D session and pig out with my friends.  So tonite we had Chinese.  Not the good Chinese but fast food version of Chinese.  Fortunately the menu offers a mixed veggie plate but it includes chow mien with noodles and the two entrees were broccoli beef and sweet & sour chicken.  I had one plate load of everything (all on one plate not a plate of each!).  They were spicy so I think that helps a bit (not enough to make a difference probably).  I then went back for seconds later in the evening ( we start at 5pm and go until midnight) but had a cereal bowl size serving.  Ok there was also three rice crispy treats ( rice crispy/marshmallows), big handful of M&M's, a cereal bowl serving of potato chips, and some peanut brittle.  For drink I had a 5.5 oz can of Starbucks Doubleshot, a 6oz can of low sodium V-8, and water.  Doing pretty good so far in not drinking soda anymore.  I actually haven't had soda now for three weeks.  Wow! cold turkey.

So another week down and have to say not bad.  Next week I will go back to Tues nite at friends right after work so no work out that day.  I will need to keep it all in perspective when it comes time to put the feed bag on,  ;).  Wish me luck, 50 lbs to go.