Weekend #3 Reflections

It was pretty insanely busy the last few days - but this blog serves as a journal for us, and some accountability for our health goals, so here we go!

Thursday and Friday of last week we followed our diets to a T - lots of "powerfoods", protein, and variety. Good food! Friday nights' dinner is our cheat meal of the week, and then I realized that I had grabbed a healthy pizza, so we were really not cheating much at all aside from the 12 oz real sugar colas we downed...

However, there was some cheating on the weekend.

I purposely packed food for a weekend away so that as we were driving we would not be tempted to eat fast food. It worked! John and I had sandwiches on our road trip and did not much while at a family members house later in the day on Saturday. We even found a decent dinner while out in the big city before a concert: philly cheese steak sandwiches. Aside from the white bread, it had provolone and fresh beef!

However, we caved a couple hours later at the show were at thanks to the smells wafting all around us: pizza, nachos, popcorn, sodas, beer - it is amazing the way that brain is cued in to smells. So, we enjoyed a slice of pizza and some nachos - we did not finish 'em! And we got a soda after we had two waters. It was hot out...

The hotel we stayed at provided us with a free fruit and nut basket so that, in addition to a little leftover bubbly, would be our breakfast on Sunday. Healthy but not filling - thank goodness I keep a stash of Odwalla bars in our trunk! We met up with a friend on Sunday that introduced us to a little cafe that served amazingly rich breakfasts. This meal would turn out to be so filling that we did not eat again until about five hours later. We had six inch Subway sandwiches for dinner and saved the other halves for our lunches today - a good plan! Eating just half the sandwich is hard when you are used to eating a footlong, as in John's case - so I was proud of his decision.

All in all, I think that the only thing we should have done differently was not had nachos - there is no nutritional value. There IS in pizza, tho ;)

We have a new challenge starting this week, food wise: we have long term houseguests. How will we do meals together? What if we don't like their food or they don't like ours? I know that tonight there will be a pie in my kitchen. How do I say, "I'm sorry...I am trying to lose weight" when it was homemade with love? Ohhh goodness...need to be strong! This is for our health!

So today: we have the normal round of Greek yogurt & fruit, boiled egg, apple slices, almonds, a pudding cup and our sandwiches for lunch.

Taking it one day at a time....