Weigh In: July 21 Summer 15 Challenge

I knew today wasn't going to be pretty. Not nice at all. I'm so heading the wrong direction.  Not that I'm surprised.  I haven't been focusing at all. Sure, I've been busy. Actually, I've been crazy beyond belief busy and that is highly unusual.  Still no excuse.

Today was horrible. Two words. Amusement Park & McDonald's.  Okay, that was more than 2 words but you get the drift.  I ate enough sodium to last the entire month.

I am reading a book.  A weight loss book. I'm going to finish it and let you know what it is and how awesome it is soon.  He's talking about how every Monday was a "new Day 1" for the diet and how by the end of the week it would result in failure.  Until the Monday and the new "Day 1".  That's what I keep doing.  I'm yoyo-ing the same 5 lbs. and it's getting annoying. 

Sigh.

I'm going to be gone until Sunday night. We're going to an awesome convention and will hopefully come home refreshed and ready to start.  Again.  I am packing good food for the convention and we're not planning to eat out except for one night of pizza.  (I'll be good).

So for the Summer 15 challenge, I'm at 238.2 which is a  4.2 lb. gain I believe?  No way am I going to make the 15 lbs. by September 7th but I am still going on and going to track my numbers!!!  I won't give up.

Crazy Busy Vacation

Did I mention I am on vacation? Again?  I sure don't feel like it. It's so crazy around her. It's one thing after another. Today was family picnic on my husbands side of the family. Small gathering and fun. The kids had a blast. 

I brought a super healthy waldorf salad that everyone loved. I'll post it on my recipe blog next week.  I also brought coconut macaroons.  I'll be posting those bad boys too.  I was good and only had one. I was also good and LEFT THEM AT GRANDMA'S HOUSE. Yup! I learned my lesson. Don't bring food back home! 

I ate good.  I didn't calorie track. Too busy.  I am guessing about 1600 calories. I really didn't eat that much.  Who knows though. My scale isn't looking too good.  I think I'm in for a gain this week.  Will let you know tomorrow!! 

After the picnic...

Ugh! I survived the picnic because I was busy and I didn't think about eating. I was having fun talking and seeing people I hadn't seen before so I didn't think about overeating.  That was GOOD! Then I brought home the leftovers!! 

WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

Seriously?  Who did I think was going to eat the rest of the pasta salad?  Who did I think was going to eat a bunch of the delicious minty cookies that I made?  Then I made a nice dinner for myself with a plan. Made spaghetti for the kids and ended up eating WAY more of the garlic bread then I intended!! 

I can make all the excuses in the world. It was a busy day.  I'm having my period.  It is a busy, crazy, not normal week. I just didn't feel like tracking. I was hungry and WANTED to eat. That's the reality of it. I chose poorly.  :-( 

I didn't eat like 3000 calories or anything stupid like that.  I just ate junk.  I have no idea how many calories I ate. Too many that's for sure. And it was junk.  Pure junk.

Sorry for the whiny post.  I'm just hoping that I will be able to read back on this and say, "what the heck was I thinking" and be able to move past it!! 

Survived The Picnic!

Just got back from family picnic number one for the week.  We are on vacation this week and it's busy, busy, busy!!  So we saw MY side of the family today and it was fun. Not to big but a lot of nice food. I did good. I had a hamburger, some pasta salad, small handful of chips, a bit more pasta salad and 2 cookies.  Not too bad. I also barely ate anything before that, just a nutrigrain bar and a piece of turkey so I was pretty hungry by the time that the picnic came around. 

No idea how many calories but I'm happy!

Setting Myself Up For Failure?

So today is the first day of what may be a bad week for eating.  I'm on vacation again which means the routine is completely different, we have a super busy week filled with a local fair, 2 family BBQ's, an amusement park and a long weekend at a hotel. 

I don't want to set myself up for failure by just giving up this week.  That would be just stupid. I am being realistic though that I'm NOT going to be coming in under 1500 calories a day anytime soon.

Today was the local fair.  Rather than eat fair food, we opted to go to a restaurant instead. It was a buffet.  *sigh*  Buffets are so good, but evil.  I didn't do as horrible as I used to but I didn't do as good as I should have. (boy, I've said that before!!)  Tomorrow is family picnic number one.  Luckily it's fairly small and it won't be a huge smorgasbord of food.  Still there will be chips. Can I keep away from the evil chips?? 

I will try.

Stupid Chocolate Chips

Snacking is continuing to be a problem. I made a dessert today for a family picnic and I sampled way too many chocolate chips.  It's dumb stuff like that, that I keep doing. Grr.

I figure with the stupid chocolate chips, I came in at about 1900 calories.  Those little buggers pack a lot of calories when you are taking small handfulls of them! 

Tomorrow won't be the greatest of days either. We're literally going to be gone from 7 am until after fireworks at 10.  Long day and eating out!!!  I'll try to make good choices!

...things growing in the basement

Sorry, this is going to be one of those highly uninspirational, boring posts.  Long, busy day and I really need the bed!  I DO need to be accountable and continue to write here though.  So if I ate 14 cupcakes and a bag of doritos.  I WON'T be able to just ignore it and deny that it ever happened.

It didn't happen. Thank goodness!

It could though.

Today went fairly well.  I went over, probably about 1700 calories but not necessarily from lack of control.  Went to my dads to help clean his house, (holy smokes I won't tell you what I found growing in the basement!).  So we brought pizza.  I should have just stuck to my 2 pieces but then I went for the oh so buttery garlicky breadsticks.  Oh well, life goes on and tomorrow is another day.  Tomorrow will be busy too, hopefully too busy to snack!! 

Weigh In: July 14 - Summer 15 Challenge

Weigh in Wednesday.  Oh, the evil scale. How I dread thee... 

Despite my continuous snacking throughout the week, I did manage to lost 1.8 lbs. this week.  That's what it's telling me so we're going with it.  Never mind that I had to blow my nose, shave my legs, clip my toenails and spit into the sink before achieving that number. 

The summer 15 challenge isn't going to well.  I'm going to have to haul some serious butt (and my butt IS serious) to lose 15 lbs. by September - ish.  I'm still up by 1.4 lbs. My math skills in some of my posts have been wrong but I started at 234 for the Summer 15 challenge and I'm at 235.4 for the day so I'm up by 1.4 I guess. Maybe by next week I'll break even!!

I ate good today! I came in at about 1500 calories and limited the snacking. I had a 130 calorie Nutrigrain bar that I didn't need nor was I hungry for but that's okay. At least I didn't have 3 of them.

Stick To The Plan

So I am making a decision to eat about 400 - 500 calories more than I want to each day.  I don't particularly LIKE this decision but I continue to do this every day.  You'd think that if it was so easy to decide to DO it, it would be just as simple to decide NOT to do it. 

Wouldn't you think?

It's not like when I grab those 2 breakfast bars I don't KNOW that they weren't on the meal plan. I am not rationalizing that I ran an extra mile so I can afford it. I know darn well that I am going OVER what I want to be at for calories.

Yet. I. Still. Do. It. 

I wouldn't say that I am completely blowing it. I'm still within decent limits. But there still is that lack of control which bugs the jeebers out of me!!!  Come on! Just get over it already!  Eat whats on the plan.  Stick to it. 

I came in at about 1900 calories today.  Dumb.  Stick to the plan.  Tomorrow's Weigh In day!!

Snacking

Short post. Off to bed. Nothing much happening here today. Busy day.  I did track my food yet as usual, snacked more than I should have. I think I came in at about 1700 calories again.  I'm still coming in 300 - 500 calories more than I want to. I KNOW it is the snacking.  Yet my hand keeps taking and putting it in the mouth. 

Maybe I need to have a talk with the hand...

I've got a CSN giveaway going on at my recipe blog!  It's open until the 19th!