My Weekend Update…

My plan for the weekend was to wake up on Monday morning and not feel frustrated with myself for losing control over the weekend with my food and beverage choices.

As I sit down to write this post, I am reminded as to why this journey can be so damned hard at times.

There were a gazillion food decisions to make this weekend. Do I or don’t I? How many bites? Does this look like about 1/4 cup? Should I have some of that? Should I leave it alone? How many points is that? Do I have that one or that one? Which of these looks like the best choice? Track that beer in your mental tracker and drink water now. Oh look! Wine! 

Friday was my most successful and mindful day of the three. Saturday I wasn’t as prepared as I needed to be and I did not handle the unexpected very well late in the night. Sunday I was more prepared for the day but then had more wine than I had planned to have.

I drank a lot of water over the weekend and I was just under my goal of 12,000 steps for Saturday and Sunday. I feel good about the steps.

My plan was to eat a High protein/low point breakfast and lunch each day so I could go to each event with points available and not feel hungry when we arrived.

Saturday morning I ate a late breakfast and thoroughly enjoyed a long and relaxing morning on my deck sipping on coffee and chatting with Tess on the phone.

I made pancakes using the Big Ass Waffle batter recipe, topped them with warm blueberries, 2 slices of center cut bacon and 2 tsp of Trader Joe’s Nut Butter.

This meal was 7 SmartPoints and 40 grams of protein! It satisfied so many tastebuds!

 

I then got in a walk but I never did make it to the grocery store to get food for lunch, and the fridge was empty, so we ended up going to the graduation party hungry. That was not my plan and now I was hungry.

I grabbed a banana right before we headed out the door.

 

When we got to the graduation party, I was hungry, dang it. Mike and I said hi to a few people (it was a combined party for three graduates and we only knew one of them, so there were a lot of people there that we didn’t know) then we grabbed a beer and I made a small plate.

Two Chicken Fingers, a tortilla roll up and veggies. Not bad. I’m feeling good right now about my decisions and I’m not hungry. All good.

 

After the grad party, we met friends for dinner on a patio up the street. Cold Beer, Live Music, Perfect Weather and Good Friends.

I was very happy.

I passed on the fried pickles that were going around the table. Didn’t have one. Didn’t over think it. I had my planned beer. Everything felt under control and easy.

 

I ordered a salad that is about as simple as a salad can be, and it hit the spot. I ordered “no bread”, but it came out anyhow. I put the bread to the side and didn’t overthink it.

Chicken, Avocado, Grapes, Raw Almonds and Balsamic Vinaigrette.

 

After dinner, we went to meet friends at my food truck bosses house to sit outside, enjoy the weather and chat. 

I didn’t expect this to be a food challenge at all. I guess I was just thinking about sipping on a glass of wine and chatting. It was a food challenge for sure. She had a huge spread of cheese, sausages, crackers, nuts, dips and sweets that I just wasn’t expecting. I was so mentally prepared for all of the other events. but this I wasn’t expecting and when I walked in the door I felt the anxiety in my stomach when I saw the food.

We sat outside and the food was inside. Perfect, right? Towards the end of the evening, we all walked inside to wrap up the evening and say good bye. Then we all started eating! A taste here and a taste there. Oh, whats that cheese? This dip looks great. What kind of cookie is that? Not just me. We were all chatting about the food and eating like it had just arrived. It may not have been as bad as I think, but I went home and tracked it all as best as I could and tried to count things on the high end just to see where I was.

I tracked 64 points for the day. That was my 30 daily points and 34 of my 35 Weekly points. I had one spare point to use for the events on Sunday.

Sunday I made a high protein breakfast (as planned) to keep me full, then went to the store so I would be more prepared heading into the two graduation parties we were going to in the afternoon.

Egg White and Veggie Omelet topped with Smashed Avocado and fruit.

 

I guess I really had chicken on the brain at the store.

 

I made a lunch plate of Chicken and Carrots before heading out to the parties.

There was a nice big spread of food at party one. I ate nothing and was fine with that.

We were at party number two much later than we had anticipated. Several of us stayed after the party wrapped up.

I had a Subway Sandwich (the party size…4″?) and a few bites of pasta salad. Then several of us cut the three flavors of cupcakes into four bites and shared them.

I sipped on wine, came home and tracked it all. I had to dip into my Fitpoints, which I hadn’t planned to do.

There were certainly a lot of “food decisions” that were made over the last three days. I expected it to be a challenging weekend and it was for sure.

The biggest challenge was the unexpected food on Saturday night, but I’m glad that I came home and tracked it.

I guess it was a successful weekend in that I’m not “in the hole” with my points over all, but I had not planned to eat any of my FitPoints. Now I’m even happier I have my Fitbit synced to my Weight Watcher App so at least I have an idea where I’m at.

I got in just under 12,000 steps on Saturday.

 

I didn’t quite make it to 12,000 on Sunday either. Oops.

 

I did not do as well as I had hoped this weekend, but I was in a place a few days ago that would have made it easy to just go to the parties and eat and drink whatever without putting any thought into it at all, or stress about going at all and just stay home. I’m glad I went into those three days with a plan.

It was great getting to spend the weekend with so many friends and visit with people that I hadn’t seen in a long time.

I hope you all had a great weekend! The weather these last few days in KC has been absolutely perfect!

When Tess (my daughter) and I were chatting this weekend, she was talking about her blog and we had our Blogging/Weight Watchering/Exercising conversation. I love those chats. Her most recent post is One Year of Fitness and I would love for you to read it if you have the time. 

No matter where my journey takes me, I stay optimistic.

I love this….

 

“love the life you live, live the life you love”