Saturday, 02/12/11 (Lost 5 pounds)

breakfast:
1 c ff milk
flatout/quarter cup goat cheese
glazed krispy kreme donut
subtotal: 15

lunch:
2 slices whitewheat
2 tbsp pb/2 tbsp jelly
coffee/milk/sugar
banana
subtotal: 13

snack:
3 piece chicken strip/honey mustard
kid's size lemonade
subtotal: 14

dinner:
Potbelly Italian original, thin cut on wheat
baked lays
diet soda
1/2 of peanut butter pie slice
wine
subtotal: 29

daily total: -42 (ie 73)
activity: 0

Feedback:
I lost 5 pounds since last week. I was really happy about that. My head and heart told me the up 3 pounds last week was from overdoing my weekly allowance the night before weigh in, and from sodium and mother nature. I was right, I guess!

It's kind of unbelievable to have this kind of loss this far into the program, so I'm really happy. I could tell my clothes were looser, I am down 2 band sizes, 1 cup size, and my skin is getting really loose and my body is changing. I knew in my heart my efforts would show. I was going to ask my leader to look at my journal if I had not lost this week.

Today, we went to my son's swim meet and then went out of town for Valentine's day. If there's any day I'd like to spend my whole allowance, it's the day I weigh in, to give me a whole week to get back in shape!

I used to spend my whole allowance every Saturday, but I haven't done that in quite a while. It's ok, though. I can handle it! This is why WW is a great program. Last Satuday, I had some drinks with the girls, and still lost 5 pounds this week! The key is to track everything and get your activity in!

I really do need to make a dining out primer. I am going to work on that. I made a poor choice at Chic-fil-A because I didn't know my options.

Dinner could have been much worse. We tried to go 2 other places where the wait was an hour long. No thanks! We don't need to spend $30 plus per person to sit in a chain restaurant where we can't hear. The Potbelly place was cute, had charm and was just fine with me. Otherwise, I surely would have had a steak and spent waaaay more points! Then we went to see "Gnomeo & Juliet", which we both enjoyed. No snacks for us at the movie theater. I was perfectly happy with my sandwich (very tasty, and not too much bread), and I brought in my own Coke Zero in my pocket. My fiancee wasn't feeling well and barely touched his sandwich. I knew we would probably have dessert, so there was no way I was going for popcorn.

We stopped at a Wegman's grocery (very nice place!) because I wanted some produce, but the bananas were all far from ripe. We are both grocery store geeks and seriously enjoyed the huge produce department and expansive restaurant eating section (!) and dessert section. We got a big piece of peanut butter pie to share ($5) and a bottle of wine to take back to our hotel. We each had one small serving of the wine and shared the pie slice, which we couldn't finish. We did look at the cupcake place on our way back to our car, but they were closed (the plan was to share a cupcake.) The pinkberry place, incidentally, had a line out the door.

I was perfectly happy with our non-traditional holiday. We don't need to spend a ton of money on a big dinner, get full past stuffed, go to a movie or show and have more snacks, and then pile on a huge dessert and alcohol. Instead, we scaled that back and had a great time on our terms. These were treats for me, definitely, but in my "old life", I would have probably eaten double this amount of calories. (I will admit, I was craving some nice prime rib. We will get it eventually, I am sure!)