Ugh! This weekend has been horrible! I've eaten nothing but take out and fast food (albeit the "healthy" kind--Subway, and Quizno's) and I've been keeping up wtih my journaling, and my calorie counting (I'm doing this to try to bust through a plateau again ) But the good news is, yesterday (according to Fitday.com) I burned over 700 calories with all the shopping that I did, and then putting everything away when I got home That's a good thing

I just wanted to be honest with you all on how my weekend has gone thus far. Today isn't going to be a TON better, because we have church commitments and will be visiting with friends, but I am going to start my day with oatmeal instead of a donut! even if nothing else falls into place for the rest of the day, at least I will have started out healthy

Thanks for keeping us on track Jen! I figure as long as we learn from our follies, it's all good. Learn from our mistakes, and as Jen said -- move on. The fastest path is not always a straight line.

Hey, what's with all the nasty "I'm a porker" talk here? There's no reason to get all over yourself or feel guilty. Better to just move on.

I ate a lot this weekend too, but called it carbo-loading/recovery and refueling.

Count me in with the group! I'll second, third, fourth, etc. all the others. One lousy taco salad completely blew my whole day yesterday, and that was without dressing.

Sigh...

I'm sorry that so many others were off track this weekend, but glad to hear that I wasn't the only one!
I actually did much better on SUnday than I had originally expected, because we didn't go to church (sick Rachel) and ended up staying home all day, so I was able to cook at home.

Holy moly!! I *thought* I did OK -- until I updated FitDay to include this weekend. Cripes!

I have to ... HAVE TO stay away from the Chinese buffet. It's a popular spot for us to get lunch on class weekends. So it's that whole "team bonding" thing that pressuring me.

So my plan is to:
1 - limit myself to one plate of buffet goodies
2 - make sure at least half my plate is veggies
3 - skip the softserve ice cream for dessert - get fruit instead
4 - lobby for Subway for at least 1 of the 2 days, and if I get vetoed, I'll go there on my own.

Also, I noticed I had beer Fri, Sat, and Sun. I need to adhere to my "alcohol only when out" rule.

Wow, guess I wasn't the only one off track this weekend. I've been feeling so bummmed out that i found myself really levatating to comfort foods. No real reason for this funk I'm in. Just a lot of work stuff going on. (worst part was that they are probably starting a wage freeze, effective less than a week before my annual review .) That mixed with the snowy (yes snowy) weather.
I did stay on track pretty well today, even without a plan. It helped that when we went out for dinner, we ate fast and left before the temptation to eat dessert hit.

Ugh!
That's sort of how I felt on Friday night. I went out to lunch with a friend. Had a burger and a frosty. dh calls and both he and ds want to go out to dinner (we hadn't been out to dinner in 12 or 13 days). dh and I go out to breakfast yesterday and have plans to go out with 3 other couples tonight.

I'm doing my best to eat super-duper clean today and then will go super clean M-F next week.

The only good thing is that it hasn't sent me into a food tail spin. Actually, I really feel motivated to eat well (when I'm not in restaurants). In the past, this would have been an excuse to eat worse EVERY meal, ALL weekend.

It just occured to me - if there are good, better, best choices... Then there is probably such a thing as a bad, worse, and worst choice.

My burger and frosty were probably bad choices. Adding fries would have made it worse and supersizing it would have been the worst!

Denise

Honestly I have blown the whole week. I started WW this week without a plan on food....I should know better. Didn't do groceries until yesterday....and I think I bought everything in the produce dept. Good thing! But, the night before my il came to town and took us to a buffet (pig-out) place and I was the biggest porker there. They had strawberry pie, and I made a mess of myself. So, now I am sitting here, wondering about Tuesday's weigh in. It won't be pretty. But, I am thinking that now we can get out, and our schedules get messed up with outdoor activities, that we didn't prepare our lives for, we are a little off plan. So for me, it means I have to change my thinking (like I did my clock this AM) and plan for meals that will be takeable, or that I can eat on the run and still be healthy. I have to plan better to get that workout in early. Hmmm, I see a pattern called planning, here.

So despite the facts that we may have been off plan for a day or two or a week, what have we learned: To Plan for summer rather than sit at home winter.

Ok you guys, I am going to admit as well . Yesterday we wnet shopping for some baby stuff remaining on my list. We left the house at 5 pm which was kind of late. My dh rarely gets a day off. He works even weekends, and since yesterday was a day off for him, I let him take a nap and didn't want to wake him up early. So we ended up coming home from our shopping at about 9 pm. We usually have dinner around 7 pm..that gives us time to digest it and go to bed light. But last night, we ate at around 9:30 pm, and by the time we finished it was 10 . I know that was horrible, and I tried to keep myself awake till almost midnight so I don't go to bed full. I also tried to prepare an easy and light fix for dinner, then not eat too much..but that was still very late for dinner. We thought about skipping it but then we were starving, since we ate a very early lunch at around noon.
There!! I said it and it makes me feel better not having to carry it on my shoulders all day today and feel bad about it. I also decided i am going to work out for at least 45 minutes to day..Not to make up for last night, but just to feel better about myself and to have something positive to look back to at the end of my day .

Thanks Lori for starting this thread, and Thank you Dawn for taking the initiative to reply..I was really hesitating to post when I first logged in then I decided I should be as couragous as you guys, so again thanks for the help and support. you're the best .

Lori,

Yesterday wasn't a great day for me either. We went to a baseball game. We were running errands all morning, so I didn't get to each lunch before we went, which I really wanted to do. I ate a chili cheese dog at the game, if that makes you feel any better.

Then, my DH wanted burgers on the grill for dinner. It was at least ground sirloin and 2% milk cheese, but still burgers and hot dogs on the same day. YIKES!

Then this morning, I had 2 cinnimon rolls. Again, the Pillsbury reduced fat variety, but still sugary sweet none the less, which I know sets me up for overeating sugar the rest of the day.

The only redeeming factor is that I walked ALL OVER the ballpark yesterdayl, so at least I got some exercise in.

Dawn