Slimmer this Summer ~ Week 4

After last week's tiny (almost non-existent) loss, I was a bit nervous to step on the scale on Sunday morning.  Especially, since I didn't do so good with my water intake throughout the week.  But I counted my calories and journaled my food.  I didn't feel burned out with my journaling and tracking at all like I did last week.  I guess I was just in a mood last week. 

As reluctant as I was, I did weigh in before breakfast on Sunday.  I hopped on the scale and was very pleased to see a 2.4 loss!  Over 2 lbs.!  Woohoo!  I'm doing the happy dance!  (Does the happy dance burn calories?) 

Here's where the confession comes in:  I went over my calories on Friday and I didn't count calories or journal on Saturday.  I'll explain. 

On Friday, I went to lunch with a friend.  The restaurant we chose (since it was near the mall) didn't have any healthy or lower calorie options.  At least not anything I liked.  I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich.  The sandwich on th menu was LOADED with toppings.  Cheese, onion straws, bacon, etc.  I asked our server to hold everything except the bacon and put the onion straws and pickles on the side.  I ate both slices of bacon.  It's been forever since I've eaten bacon.  It was gooood!  I ended up eating all of the pickles too.  I only ate half of the sandwich and about 3/4 of the fries.  I didn't touch the onion straws at all. 

After walking the mall, we stopped in the candy shop.  I bought 2 chunks of fudge and some jellied fruit slices.  Normally, I would have bought a pound of fudge and a bunch of other chocolate goodies.  But decided that the chunks of fudge wouldn't do too much damage. 

I skipped breakfast on Friday to save calories and also because I was running around all morning getting us ready to go out.  After such a busy day (and big lunch), I wasn't hungry for dinner.  Later, while watching TV, I ate a piece of fudge and a couple pieces of the fruit slice candy. 

On Saturday, Joe took us out to breakfast.  It has been over a year since we went out for breakfast.  Of course, we had to hit our favorite breakfast buffet.  I started with a huge plate of fruit, shared a powdered donut with Grace, had a slice of french toast, some eggs, some fried potatoes, a slice of bacon, scrapple and some corn fritters.  Mmmmm!  I dreaded trying to figure the calories, so I didn't.  But in reality, I may have been over, but I don't think I did too badly.  The plates at the buffet aren't big dinner plates, but small salad-size plates.  I had my plate over-flowing, but didn't finish everything.  I skipped lunch but ate the other piece of fudge for a snack along with some fruit slices.  Joe picked up fried chicken for dinner, I picked the white meat from the chicken breast and ate it with a huge bowl of iceberg lettuce with some lite honey mustard dressing.  Dessert was a cone of frozen yogurt. 

So, two bad days, but not nearly as bad as they would have been before starting this challenge. 

Although, I am thrilled with my loss this week, I still feel as though I don't really deserve it.  I didn't meet all of my goals that I set up at the start of the challenge.  But I do feel like I am back on track with calorie counting and journaling (with the exception of Saturday) and now can focus on drinking my water.  Also, I am still waiting for Joe to carry the exercise bike up from the basement.  Since it seems as though I will have to wait until the end of the challenge, I decided today to get my butt moving by walking around the perimeter of our back yard with Grace following me.  After I did that last night for about 15 minutes (Grace wouldn't walk anymore), I raked up some grass clippings from when my nephew mowed the grass that morning.  I only raked for about 9 minutes, but it's 9 minutes of activity that I wasn't doing the day before.