After a horrendous weekend of eating junk, I did extremely well today.  Let me fill you in…

On Friday, I was at my lowest weight of all time (well, except for when I was in the womb).  However, I went home this weekend, which I knew would present challenges.  On Friday we ate at a Mexican restaurant– difficulties there, of course.  However, I ate a cookie and some chocolates while I was at the mall, too.  It was just me, so there was no reason to even go in there, but I did, and it went badly, of course.  I think I’m starting to get the all or nothing mentality and the frustration/impatience is starting to creep in, too.  I’m just hoping I can get things back together.

On Saturday I went to a stamp party, with munchies all over the place, and I hadn’t eaten lunch, so I was hungry…four brownies!  Yes, you read that right.  Dinner was then at a buffet/dinner theatre kind of thing, and I just ate way too much.  At least it was good food, though, so it was kind of worth it.

Sunday was also dinner out again (the eating out kills me– it’s not something I deal with at home).  I had prime rib, salad, and a twice baked potato.  The real killer was the oscar’s party I went to Sunday night.  It was a potluck type of thing, but there were munchies all over the place, and people were eating all night long.  I had way too much, but it was spread over the whole night, so I didn’t really feel it like I would have had I eaten it all at once.  On the bright side, I did only have one glass of champaigne and refused the smirnoff “malt beverage” things that were offered, so I’m pretty sure I saved significant calories there.

Another positive is that this morning I was still full from the night before, so i only ate half a bar for breakfast (I thought I needed something since I was going to work out).  Also, I’ve decided to do metaquick again this week since it’s kind of my last week.  I’m just doing it with the bars, though, since I don’t have any shakes.  That’s allowed, and technically yields better results, so yea for me.  It’s rather mindless as far as meal planning goes, so that’s also good.  I was up 10 lbs. (167.5) this morning as compared to Friday morning, but by this evening’s weight, I’m already back down to 163.5, so I think I was holding some major water.  We’ll see what the morning brings.

Today everything went perfectly– eating, workout, everything.  My calories were fantastic, so hopefully I can keep the momentum up for the rest of the week.  On Friday I have to go to winter inservice where I work, and they are catering Olive Garden– ugh.  How much worse could it get?  They usually do Subway.  I think work is my biggest saboteur.  I think the best plan is to try to eat something before I go so I’m not starving because that’s when I get myself into real trouble.  I don’t have any other weekend plans yet, though, so hopefully no one will decide to do anything since it usually involves dinner and drinks.

On a side note, I’ve been advised to skip my stabilization party this Thursday, advice that I think I will heed.  One of the counselors said I could gain about two weeks more of the diet if I skip the party, get the menu the next week, and then wait to start it until the following week.  I thought it was interesting that she was basically telling me how to subvert the system, but I thought about it, and I think I’m going to do it.  Things will be crazy with my husband getting home in a week anyway, so when I do stabilization, it would be nice to be able to really do it and not cheat all the time.  So, that would give us a settling down period, even if I’m not able to stay on the actual diet part of it, and hopefully we’ll have more of a routine established by the time I actually start stabilization.

calories in:  765

workout burned:  650

net calories:  115– I think this is the lowest ever.

weight at home:  167.5