Slowly but Surely

Posted by primaballerina on May 12th, 2009 |Filed Under General, Turbo Jam, Weight Watchers |

I’m getting back on track.  Thanks for all the kind support, everyone! It helps me to know that I’m not alone in facing these challenges.
This week I’ve moved to a new place, started a new job, and lost the ability to cook for myself since I now live in a hotel.  It’s a long story.  Anyway, there is a breakfast and dinner buffet included in my summer accomodations, but as you can imagine buffets are not very WW friendly.  The biggest challenge is that I can’t measure anything, so whatever I eat will be “eyeballed”, and that is never a good thing.  So, I’m doing what I can. I went shopping yesterday and bought some cans of soup, a bag of carrots, some melba toast, pitas, peanut butter, and some little cans of tuna- all things I can keep at work.  I made a peanut butter-banana-pita rollup for breakfast and ate it at work since I have been STARVING during the day.  Eating breakfast too early leads to hunger, which leads to over consumption during the day, at least for me. As for the dinner buffet, there’s not much I can do to get around that.  I’m just eating LOTS of salad and trying my best to keep portions in check.  Luckily I cook a lot so I have a decent idea of what a cup looks like, but still…not ideal.  Another challenge is that I am smack-dab in the centre of downtown in a city with some of the best restaurants in the world- many of them dirt cheap- right outside my doorstep.  My favourite thai restaurant is 3 blocks away.. oh the temptation. I’ve eaten there once already.  Hopefully I’ll be able to control myself this summer.  I know that I can have treats like that as long as it’s not all the time, and as long as I’m doing my exercise.  Which, (drumroll please) I actually did today! I just came home from work and got right at it.  I feel much better. I’ve only done Cardio Party twice this week, but it’s better than the past 2 weeks when I did it, um, never….

Tomorrow is Weigh In day.  I am not hopeful, once again. I know I don’t lose unless I work out, and I haven’t been doing that.  So, my goal is to not have gained a lot and to get right back into the swing of things this week.  Wish me luck!

Hope you’re all doing well :)


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  1. lulubellesmama on May 12, 2009 6:29 pm

    I can not imagine having to live off of buffets. Buffets make everything go out the window. Good luck to you!!!

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