Wow! I feel like I didn't get a weekend! We did the college shopping both Saturday and Sunday. I won't do that again, as I was so exhausted I went to bed at 8 last night, and had a huge headache to boot. Way too much information to absorb and no relaxation to be had. It was pretty cool to the comparison so close to each other, since the schools were so different from each other, and both were pretty great (of course upenn wins, but that's just a fantasy), but just mentally exhausting trying to take it all in. Now we're done til spring and most schools don't do anymore til then.
Anywho, Friday I did some weights and loafed on the couch. DH came home and wanted to go out to eat. Who am I to say no? So we went to Applebee's and I had a skinny mohito and the 550 calorie steak dinner. I love the steak here
, it's always very trim and they cook it perfectly. We also always get that sizzling apple pie dessert here and split it, but neither of us wanted it that day.
Saturday we were out all day, so food intake was limited. When we were done, we went to a pizza place. The menu had a huge variety of paninis so I decided to have one of those. GROSSEST thing I've eaten in a while. I got "applewood smoked ham with swiss cheese". The swiss was in random cubes and not melted and there was about 1/4 cup of mustard(complete with seeds) smeared on both sides of the sandwich. It took 3 napkins to scrape it all off and it still tasted like a mustard sandwich. I didn't want to send it back since I was starving (no lunch) and we wanted to get back home.
Sunday I made breakfast before we left which was crepes with strawberries and some bacon. These are pretty low calorie as the crepes are just a vehicle for the strawberries. Then again, no lunch (had a fiber bar on me this time). This was the longest day, so we just wanted to get home and not take much time to eat. We stopped at a McDonalds so the guys could get a McRib. I got the kids chicken nugget meal. DS16 was going on about how embarassing it was that I ordered a kids meal
. But it was good and filling enough.
So I didn't get any formal exercise, just a lot of walking on the campus tours. On the bright side, my shins feel a lot better today
. Still some slight pain when doing stairs, so I'll give it a couple more days, but it feels good to finally feel some improvement. Still haven't gotten those sneakers, but I want them before the weekend as I want to get moving again. I'll start on the tread mill to ease myself back in, as I think the transition to the street was when I started hurting.
Friday I decided to deal with the work issue head on so I could stop stressing over it. It went better than I thought, and my boss was very calm about it (thought she'd be pissed). So I can stop thinking about that.
So here we are at the end of week 6. How did I do?
5 out of 7 good eating days
1 official walk (plus 2 campus tours)
4 days of weights and /or mat exercises
Lost 2 lbs!!!!
So currently, my total loss is back to 7 lbs.
Not really where I hoped I'd be after 6 weeks, but after a few setbacks, I'm still happy with it. I'll feel better once I start running again, since this next month will be the real challenge...Thanksgiving, Christmas parties, cookies, Christmas eve, Christmas day, New years eve, plus all those days in between!!!!