Okay, so yesterday was Labor Day. Maybe you had a picnic. I know I have a hard time being "behaved" at special events. As we speak, I came home from a really well behaved weekend at work to more cookies & pizza & other food than I know what to do with. And voila, a homework idea hit.

Find something to celebrate so that you "start off" the rest of the week on a positive note. Bonus points for each extra thing you do/did good.

I did pretty well with my sister's wedding, avoiding the food if not the alcohol. It helped that I was wearing confining undergarments, I guess.

I had a routine doctor's appointment this morning for blood pressure and cholesterol test. Because of the bloodwork I thought I was having, I fasted. Turns out, the doctor said my bloodwork was so good last time (9 months or so ago so I thought I was OVERDUE!), it didn't need to be tested again today. WOOHOO! That's great news...but...I fasted for nothing.

I HAD to stop at the drug store on the way home because I was out of Dyazide (fluid pill for blood pressure) and can't go without it. By the time I left CVS, I had convinced myself that I deserved to go to McDonald's for b'fast for the first time in AGES. I had just enough time to get into the drivethrough line before they stopped serving b'fast at 10:30 a.m. By the time I got to the light which is both the turn for McD's and the turn for my place, I had talked myself OUT of going to McD's and went on home. I had a wheat bagel, 2 slices of lower fat bacon and 8 oz. of orange juice instead of the Egg McMuffin, hash browns and OJ I'd planned.

I would be really happy about that change of plans ANYTIME, but especially happy after feeling so down about my choices last week.

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Originally posted by Bee:
I think it was Denise who said that moving was very bad for her waist line and I can see why.

It wasn't the moving that did me in... I was back on track by the time of the move... and the extra physical activity made up for any extra cals I ate.

It was the open houses and the house on the market and not cooking at home that did me in (didn't want the house to smell like cooking when people came to look at it). And putting the house on the market didn't require THAT much physical effort.

I gained 5 putting the house up for sale, but had joined WW and was back on track by the time we physically moved.

Moving the kitchen took 2 days. I think that we only ate out 3 dinners, a couple of lunches and 1 breakfast.

Jamie was 12 when we moved. He unpacked the entire kitchen in about 5 hours. I stayed at the old house and packed up boxes and brought them to him and he stayed in the new kitchen and put stuff away. He's a good worker... but not available this coming weekend... sorry!


PS EDITPS... our house when on the market at the end of the school year. It was on the market the week before and after fathers day.

The the end of the school year is a MOST calorific time of year in the teachers lounge. Much worse than Dec. That was responsible for about 3 lbs of gain and the house put on another 2. I joined WW July 2... and learned my lesson because those 5 lbs weren't gone until Sept.

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Well as for me I not only did some good eating in, I got dh to go with me to one of the gorcoeries and stock up on some items that were on sale. This will not only save me some time, but us some $$ too.

One night since I couldn't sleep I got in my dresser drawers and got them neater and took some items out to give away. So I can add that to my box I keep in the garage later today.

I do have to say my biggest "start off" for the weekend was getting back and doing cardio at the gym. As some of you may I seen I made a schedule for myself this week. As of last week I am also journaling again.

Gosh, I 'd love to say we did exciting things, but fall clean up was our mode for the weekend. I did manage to put out some very healthy meals over the weekend. I think pulling weeds, pulling dead plants, mowing, and raking helped with the aerobic end of my weekend. And spending time doing those things with my dh is always great fun....did I say raking was fun? OMG, I did way too much of that this weekend.

We ate out once this weekend. We had Greek. DH and I shared a plate of dips (hummus, babaganouj, taramasalta...), and then shared 2 kebobs, one lamb and one chicken. I did have baklava though, but I shared that with DS.

Otherwise, we ate at home. We had a DiGiorno whole wheat crust cheese pizza for dinner last night. I had 2 slices.

Dawn

We ate out most of the weekend because of packing/working. I'm 4 pounds heavier this morning (hopefully due primarily from water retention).

What I did well - skipped the giant, frosted cinnamon bun that dh got for breakfast and just made myself something at home. Skipped fried ice cream at the Mexican place on Saturday night and left a lot of food on my plate.

I did make a good job of choosing well - low fat, vegetarian black bean soup for lunch on Saturday; ate in Sat night despite really not wanting to cook in a kitchen filled with boxes; had salads, non fried food, 1/2 sandwiches, etc... I know it could have been much worse.

I think it was Denise who said that moving was very bad for her waist line and I can see why. There are boxes piled all over my kitchen and it is a terribly uninviting place to cook in right now. I'm going to have to force myself to do it and we'll have to focus on really good choices when we eat out when it's completely disassembled and we have no choice.

What I did good: I ignored McDonalds on my drive home from the park. I was starving, but I knew that there was other tasty stuff waiting for me at home.

What I'm gonna do: send the cookies to work with my other half. His co-workers will enjoy them just as much, and I don't have the cookies around to torture me. I'm also going to have hubby finish off the pizza. I had a good weekend, and I don't want to undo what I managed to accomplish.

And then I'm going to finish a book I'm reading, just to give myself a well earned rest.