Oh to be just overweight!

This morning I just had one of the yummiest breakfasts ever!  It’s a slice of whole wheat toast spread with 1 T. chunky peanut butter and then apple slices, drizzled with 1-2 t. of honey and sprinlked with cinnamon.  I ate the rest of the apple with it and 1 cup of skim milk.  These are the tortures of healthy living! LOL  YUMMY!!!  This new food plan has some really interesting food combos, but everything I’ve had so far has been delicious and really hit the spot.  I guess this nutritionist knows what she’s doing, huh?  One of the best parts is today marks 7 days on plan with no food meltdowns and/or related weight fluctuations.  I FINALLY made it a full week without “eating stupid” (as I affectionately call it).

I weighed in today at 135.4 after just 3 days on this new plan (the few days prior I had been OP with food, just not on THIS plan).  That puts me very near my April goal of being back UNDER 135.  To be perfectly honest, I’m a little nervous about the weekend, though.  Tomorrow, my mom and I are going to a Christian women’s conference and they’re serving us lunch there which should be okay since it’ll most likely be some sort of bag lunch/sandwich kinda thing.  But then for supper we may stop to eat out on the way back to my house (it’s a 1.5 hour drive).  I’ve been doing so well, but sometimes I mess up when I’m not 100% in control of my food environment, ya know?  I know I CAN make good choices at restaurants and I can NOT eat chips if they give them to me in the lunch, but the temptations are just WAY higher.  Then there’s Sunday.  Some new friends we’ve just gotten to know at church invited my family over for lunch after church.  Now, they’re both healthy-looking people so maybe they’ll serve healthy foods, but who knows?!  Obviously I’m going to eat what they serve and I don’t feel right asking about it since we’re not well acquainted with them yet.  There’s even less control in that situation, because I can’t choose WHAT to eat, just HOW MUCH I eat of it.  I just want to keep this momentum going, so I can get to my goal weight for the summer and STAY there! 

Ya know how you want all that good stuff for yourself, but then someone sticks a particular food in your eye-line and you just throw all your reason and logic out the window to eat that high-fat, high-cal food?  Yeah, that’s what I do sometimes.  I KNOW I want to be healthy and eat right and exercise, but then this stupid part of my brain clicks on and insists that I may die without that giant Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Easter Egg.  (For the record, I passed it up this year….not ONE Reese product this Easter.  THAT is amazing.  I am a sucker for the PB and chocolate combo in a huge way!)  So, this weekend I HOPE my mom…(the same woman who insisted she would only pack us veggies with our sandwiches for our last event together and ended up packing Oreos and Fritos as well)…will help me resist and stick to plan tomorrow and my DH will help me Sunday.  My accountability people are really only here, on 3FC.  My dear family stinks at helping me!!  They have little self-control, so they have trouble holding me to it, ya know?  DH, my parents…they’re all at various stages of obesity (as I was until last year) so it’s tricky.  My kids are often GREAT at holding me accountable if I ask them.  They love to be in charge of telling me, “NO!”  LOL  But, they are SO not tactful about it, so it’s rare that I enlist their help.  Plus sometimes they have to ask me if something’s healthy or not before they know whether or not I should be eating it.   Heehee  Anyway, there’s what going on in the next few days.  Here’s to being spiritually fruitful…particularly full of self-control!