It’s been an up and down week, but I’ve still been making an effort, even though I’ve stopped posting (just been busy this week).  On Monday I ate out at BD’s Mongolian Grill, and I did better than I could have– one bowl of stir-fry (instead of a non-dieting three), and that really isn’t too bad for you anyway.  It was, however, LOADED with salt, so that made me hold some serious water for a few days. 

On Tuesday I went to a ladies’ night progressive dinner (talk about difficult!) where I did eat totally off plan, but I tried not to just totally pig out, so again, had I not been dieting, I would have done worse.  The biggest issue there came with my own dessert– I made a Paula Dean gooey butter cake, but I tweaked it and used orange and chocolate flavors because I love those paired together– it was totally awesome if I do say so myself.  Therein lay my problems– I ate probably a third of the dessert myself.  I cut them up and put them on a plate ahead of time (always a bad idea because then people can’t tell you’ve eaten some), so I had a couple little squares the night before, and then I had a square for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (didn’t eat anything else, though), and then I had several of the leftover ones when I got home…that was probably the worst part of it.  I still have some major food issues.

However, ever since, I’ve been doing okay.  I’ve mainly been subsisting on cheese toast because I’m too lazy to go cook something in my nonexistent kitchen (everything is moved out for floor refinishing this week).  So, while I’ve not been “on plan” I’ve been eating in a way that I should definitely be losing weight.  Overall, I’m down 1 lb. from a week ago– not bad, but not great, either.  On the bright side, I’m only 1 lb. away from my lowest ever, so I should hit that on Tuesday as long as I stay on track this weekend.

Here’s the info for today:

Calories
  Eaten 762
  BMR* 1,863
  Exercise 327
  Total Burned 2,190
  Differential -1,428

MRC weight:  163.5