It’s all up to me

The week of conferences often spells disaster for my weight loss. Monday and Tuesday are normal but we’re at school all day Wednesday and then have conferences until 8 pm and then Thursday we have conferences from 9 am until 7:30 pm. We have a break for lunch but it’s usually around 2 or 2:30 which throws my eating schedule off and generally we go out to eat. Since I know Weds/Thurs is going to be goofy I often have a hard time sticking to the plan on Mon/Tues.

This week, though, has been good so far. I had the small bump in the road on Tuesday but was able to recover before there was too much damage and then yesterday I actually stuck to my eating plan. That is giving me energy and confidence to stick to the plan today. Fortunately we only have an hour for lunch which really isn’t long enough to eat at a restaurant so I brought a ton of healthy snacks and my lunch with me. We don’t have vending machines so as long as I stay away from the bake sale I’ll be ok. I got up early this morning and got in an hour of TJ and upper body weights so I have my workout under my belt.

Tomorrow we’re cleaning, cleaning, cleaning for our boys’ birthday party on Saturday. Eating shouldn’t be a problem b/c we’ll be so busy I’ll probably forget to eat. And then Saturday I’m going to let myself enjoy the party food, within limits of course

The one thing that may throw everything off is the weather. Justin’s b-day is March 18th and Kyle’s is April 6th so we decided to combine their parties since my family lives out of town. We figured by the end of March it would be warm enough to throw a few tables in the garage for eating since our house can’t fit 30 people comfortably. Really, who has a house that can??? Anyway, we’re predicted to get 6 inches of snow on Saturday. Nice. Oh well, my parents have a space heater that they’re going to bring so it should still work.

Days on plan this month: 17

Progress toward workout goal: 207/250

12:00

OK, I was derailed by a bag of puppy chow.  Every year the student council kids bring us treats and generally I give my bag away to another teacher but I was not going to give up puppy chow.  That would have been fine but then I bought 2 cookies from the bake sale.  This madness stops NOW!!!