It has been a few days since my last update, but in reality, it's been a few days since I've been a part of the 'real world'. This weekend was our annual Reunion Weekend, which means 12 - 16 hour days. It also creates a real challenge when it comes to any sort of eating and workout regimen! But, I'm proud to report at yesterday's weigh-in, I was at the exact same weight I was the week before! Still down 10 pounds! Given the diet I had in the few days before, I think that's pretty damn good! Here's a recap of the last few days:
Thursday: I started the day with a good workout, and food went well, except I had my first major give-in to cravings. At lunch, my boss ordered pizza from Sgt. Peffer's for us. I didn't do too bad. I ate the salad that was supposed to go with my wrap for lunch, and then indulged on a half a slice of 5 cheese pizza. It tasted so good! But afterward, I could definitely tell that my stomach had not had anything that greasy in it for a while!
Friday: This is where it all begins...I started the day really well. Good workout, smart breakfast and morning snack, I even ate lunch before going to a lunch meeting so I knew what I was putting in my mouth. I ate my snack (hummus and pita) while driving from building to building running Reunion Weekend errands. I had brought a nutrition bar as my 5th meal, but as my coworker and I got in my car to run to another building (at 5:30 p.m.) she mentioned she had not had anything to eat since 10 that morning. So I gave her my nutrition bar to tide her over for a couple hours. So, dinner that night ended up being spanakopita, chicken satay in peanut sauce and artichoke dip with crostini...all snacks from the party I was working.
Saturday: Ugh...Saturday. I woke up with a headache and was looking at a really long day, so I went back to sleep instead of working out. But I ate a good breakfast and morning snack. That was pretty much the end of the smart foods for the day. For lunch, I had fried rice, hot and sour soup and crab rangoon. Leftovers of lunch made up my afternoon snack. Dinner? Oh, dinner! Nachos and 2 chicken fingers with a vodka/cranberry and 3 beers. Oh, dinner. Such are the pitfalls of Reunion Weekend! The only upside to this day was that I hiked the length of the campus a few times, so I feel like I still had more activity than had I skipped a workout and sat in the office fr the day.
Sunday: Time to get back on track! This was supposed to be my day of rest, but I skipped the resting and did Saturday's workout. Then I had a good breakfast, morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack. We had a good friend from out of town over for dinner that night - Tyler made turkey, pesto meatballs in red sauce with whole wheat pasta. I made a salad to go with that. I didn't do too bad with dinner - sensible portions, and only 1 piece of garlic bread. The 2 cookies afterward might have killed me a bit, but c'est la vie!
Monday: Weigh-in. Oh, how I was dreading this. I knew that given my last few days of eating, there was a better than average chance that I had gained. But, much to my pleasant surprise, I was even with the week before!
My workout went well, and the food for the day went exceedingly well, considering I had the day off and was around lots of good food all day that I could have easily snitched. But I didn't - not even once!
Today: eh. It's a gray Tuesday here in Omaha. I woke up in a funky mood, and could hardly get my feet to not trip over each other during the workout. Foodwise, I had one of my favorite breakfasts from the plan - blueberry cheesecake (ricotta cheese, blueberries, vanilla extract, almonds and a packet of splenda) - and had a favorite morning snack - hummus and pita. I also packed a delicious lunch - a 200 calorie pizza (DiGiornio now individually wraps 200 cal slices...how nice!) and a salad with garbonzo beans - a total favorite of mine! Unfortunately, I left the pizza at home. And then two of my coworkers were running errands and offered to bring Panda House takeout back to the office. Panda House may be the pitfall of this whole thing if it doesn't work!
But even at that, I tried to do smart portions. Half the steamed rice, half the garlic chicken (chicken, carrots and celery in a brown sauce) and 1 cup of the hot and sour soup. I also tried to order smart - the garlic chicken is a spicy item, which is a hint from Body-for-Life for Women. You naturally eat less of spicy foods because of the heat. So all-in-all not too bad. Could have been worse.
Tonight I am having lemon baked tilapia with steamed green beans and 1/2 a sweet potato - yum! And I'm about to go grab my afternoon snack - a 100 calorie yogurt! The best part of the yogurt? It's a Breyer's (aka, the ice cream people) product, and it comes with chocolate cookie crumbles! But it's just 100 calories!
Until next time!
XO ~
ColeyCook
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