Once again I’ve been doing a lot of travelling and have been really busy during the week, making it hard to blog.  I’m basically just holding steady, I guess, but that’s better than gaining.  When I’m away from home, I find it really hard to eat well.  For one, there are usually poor options for me, and second, it’s just hard to pass up the tasty stuff and eat a bar or just salad when everyone else is having a tiny bit of salad and eating cookout food, etc.

This weekend will be the first in six weeks where I’m able to stay home (I’m missing my cousin’s graduation, but I’m just sick of traveling!).  In order to avoid eating out, I’m planning a yummy at-home and on-plan cookout dinner for Saturday.  We’re going to jog down to the farmer’s market (only a mile away), pick up some fresh veggies, and grill up some veggie and chicken/beef/seafood kabobs at home– can’t wait.  At least hubby is on board with the not eating out (albeit his is from a financial standpoint, but whatever!).  I find restaurants so difficult to navigate food-wise.

As for this week, I started out well, and then things went downhill yesterday.  DH woke me up with DQ’s new raspberry truffle blizzard– soooo to die for!  On Monday I was “off” my diet and wanted that blizzard, but they were closed, so he picked one up on his way home from the gym that morning for me– I couldn’t not eat it.  It was so sweet of him to do that, so I was going to just eat a few bites, but then I really loved it, so I finished it.  The rest of the day went decently (hardly had anything for lunch), and then I got the bright idea to make brownies because a mix I had was expiring.  They were good too, lol. 

Today has been totally on plan, though, and I’m working out tonight, so hopefully I’ll get back on track.  This weekend shouldn’t pose any problems, so I’m hoping to get a jump start on dieting.  I’m still about ten pounds away from my lowest weight ever (just before DH came back from Iraq).  I’ve calculated things out, and I need to lose an average of about 2 lbs. a week to make it to my goal before my program expires.  That is still very doable, but I need to stop messing around, or I’ll never get there.  However, I don’t see any more brownie disasters in the near future.

weight at home:  171 (170.5 yesterday before the brownie got me.)