Well, the weekend is gone and it's Monday again. Yuck! I had an interesting weekend, weight loss wise. Friday went fine, right in my calorie goals and fat, sugar, protein and such were all good. Saturday was a little crazy as far as food went. There was a St. Patrick's Day parade in our area and we were going to that so we ate out for lunch.
And I goofed. When we decided where to go, I should have looked up the nutritional info before I ordered. I got a wrap, and yes, I know wrap does not equal healthy, but I figured it would be better then a burger and there wasn't a lot of options. When I got home later, I discovered that the wrap had 1020 calories!!!
I looked at their burgers and they actually would have been better! Oops. To my credit, I really did think I was picking the better option. And the real hard part of that is that I was nearly at my calorie limit for the day already (thank God I had a light breakfast!).
The hubby took our daughter up to his parents (she's staying there for spring break) and I had the night alone. Yea for time alone! Boo for wanted to pig out in secret because of it. I wanted to, so bad! I hadn't had the urge to eat junk so badly since this started. Finally, to stop the urge to run to the store and get junk, I put on my pj's at about 6pm. And this after the awful lunch! I still didn't do well though. There was a box of lean pockets in the freezer and I ate them, both of them. I came in at 280 calories over my limit and about 150% fat. *hangs head in shame* Oh man though, I paid for that fat later. My stomach was not happy.
Sunday I did better. It was a really nice day for March in Minnesota, mid 50's and sunny. There's a nice bike path by our apartment, so I decided I should work off some of those extra calories and went for a bike ride. I only did about 30 minutes, but I had to go back. My butt was killing me! I need a different bike seat. I went at a pretty good pace though, my heart was pounding.
I ate a lot better on Sunday too. I got to the end of the day and found I was about 200 calories short of my range. Well, I wasn't hungry and figured the two days cancelled each other out. We also sat down yesterday and made a menu for the next two weeks, then went grocery shopping. I think we are having more chicken than the hubby really wants, but we have a lot of ways to make it, so hopefully he won't get bored. I also found a really yummy, 100% organic granola cereal. I'm not a big cold cereal fan, but this tastes really good, doesn't get soggy, has about 12% of my daily fiber and 8% of my protein. It does have sugar, but not too much and most of it comes from honey. I plan to cycle between that, oatmeal and peanut butter sandwiches (my default breakfast). I also had some natural, no sugar added applesauce since I'm trying to get some fruit or veggie with every meal.
I've decided that I need to work on my snacks. I usually have two snacks during the day at work. I've gotten those 100 cal packs or mini rice cakes in the past. They taste good and don't have a lot of calories, but they don't have a lot of anything else either. I'm replacing one of those snacks with something healthy for now and plan to replace the other later (baby steps). Today I have red grapes for one of my snacks.
I haven't been getting enough sleep lately though. I only got about 6 hours on Saturday, mostly because I didn't want to go to bed. I had the place to myself (hubby spent the night at the in-laws) and it was a nice change. Woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep. Then last night there was just stuff going on and I didn't go to bed on time. It's 9am and I'm already tired... it's going to be a long day.
It was so hard to exercise this morning, partially because of that. I almost decided I needed the sleep more than the exercise, but I didn't let myself use that as an excuse. I did my DVD and made myself give it my all. I'm proud of myself for that! I just need to keep reminding myself: 20 pounds by Easter! I only have a few more weeks.
I'm kind of excited. Last month I won a gift certificate to a local restaurant and we haven't had a chance to use it yet. Well, since our daughter is gone this week, we are going to have a date night. We'll use the gift cert then go to a movie. The only movies we've gone to in a long time have been animated! (nothing wrong with animated movies, but I'd like something a little more adult sometimes) We'll probably see Avatar (if it's still playing here) or Alice in Wonderland. ^_^ Ok, that's not weight related, but I'm excited. We talked about going tonight, but since I am so tired already maybe we'll wait until Wednesday (since I won't have to get up as early on Thursday).
PS: Does anyone else
hate the "throwing up" smilie? I almost can't stand to look at it!
I did the same thing with food this weekend we were out and I bought what I thought was the "healthiest" and it ended up having 850 calories!
I've been sipping on it while it melts, but it's going to be a long day water-wise.
