Week One: Weekends Blow it!

Today's weigh-in was 196.2 pounds.. that's a 3oz loss. Oh boy.. I know I should be glad for anything.. but what ticks me off is that at some point this past week I had gotten down to 194.5.. but then the weekend happened.

Saturday we ran errands and I managed to get some 18k steps in and over an hour of walking.. but I still ate a big breakfast. Sunday we took public transit to the Presidio for Off the Grid's Picnic in the Park where I ate half a cheeseburger with brie.. and a scoop of some seriously yummy Humphrey Slocombe.

Dinner was at Jupiter where we split some serously good beet salad and a veggie pizza in the thoughts we'd have leftovers for Meatless Monday.. no such luck! We devoured that thing!

So yeah, weekends I seem to blow it. Even with sharing and getting plenty of walking in, I seem to use up all my weeklies. Yes, I know they're there to be used. It doesn't mean I HAVE to use them, because I don't.

On good days, (when we have a good abundance of fruit for snacking) I do well to stay within my daily point target.. A couple days last week, I even let a couple dailies go unused. I was full. I was fine. No snacking required. Other days, not so much. I can't help but wonder if maybe I should change my weigh-in day to Friday. Weekends just blow it for me.

Garlic Fries

Saturday was the 2013 SF Giants Fan Fest.. For food we treated ourselves to our first garlic fries of the season!

Half a serving Gordon Biersch Garlic Fries is about 7 points plus.. so hurray!

Chocolate!

One of my cures for keeping the dementors away.. Trader Joe's Milk Chocolate:

3 squares is about: 200calories w/ 12g of fat/ 25 carbs/ less than 1g fiber/ 2g fiber

I unwrap it when I get home and break them into 3square portions and stick them in the fridge to keep chilled. When I need the chocolate I help myself to a serving.. I like to think they melt slower if they're cold. Eating them one square at at time makes them last a few seconds longer, too. =)