Hi everyone! October, OMG!
It sure came soon. Hopefully this month we will actually get started on our project that's due at the end of the year.
I was at red line today. This weekend I have some planned indulgences (our anniversary celebration), but after that it's time to get back to business here. I cannot be at my red line at the START of the holidays.
My grandma's funeral was a very nice ceremony. Small -- only about 15 people, half of whom were cousins of my mom's that I had never met before. The whole weekend was kind of a food disaster. Friday they fed us Chinese for lunch at work, and I ate a bit too much. I resolved to have a healthy dinner at my connection in Charlotte. Well, when I got to Charlotte, I couldn't bring myself to buy any of the premade salads that were there as I got food poisoning from one once and I'm afraid to eat them, but then instead of getting a sandwich, I got fried chicken and a biscuit and coleslaw.
So Saturday morning I got up early, worked out, including a HIIT run. Went to breakfast with my parents and ordered scrambled eggbeaters, Canadian bacon, and dry ww toast. After the funeral we went to lunch, and I got a salad that had chicken and a vinaigrette, and turned down dessert. Then we got back to my aunt's house, and out came the spread of banana bread and chocolates from the special NJ chocolate shop that my family loves. A veggie tray joined the festivities later, but the damage was done. I have proved to myself yet again that I cannot turn down chocolate or cake -- my only recourse is to not get into situations where they are in front of me. Then after the incredibly hectic and stressful drive where we stupidly attempted to drive my sister and her wife into Manhattan on Saturday night (we ended up getting them to a train in Jersey City), I was so stressed out and it was so late that I ate more than I should have at dinner (Malaysian restaurant). At least when I got back to the hotel I was calm enough that I went straight to bed instead of going to the bar for another drink, which was tempting.
I recovered somewhat on Sunday. We went to IHOP -- another harrowing drive, I hate NJ driving -- and they had some lower-cal options on the menu. I got whole grain pancakes with banana and egg beaters. Lunch in Charlotte was CPK -- not the greatest, but not as bad as fried chicken.
Now I have another challenge coming tomorrow because we're interviewing someone and we're supposed to take him out to lunch. Hopefully it will be somewhere with reasonable food choices.
I'm excited about this coming weekend though! We have tickets to the opening night gala of the symphony, with Itzhak Perlman. We're going to a restaurant we haven't been to before after the concert. Then Sunday we're hosting our dinner club for some fall-themed food (I picked the recipes almost entirely from Cooking Light, but it will still be an indulgence).
Sorry for writing a book without really saying anything!