Monday 4-30-12

Hi friends.  Sorry for the silence over the weekend.  I totally blew it.  Everything was going so well up until Saturday night.  We took an impromptu trip to Stone Brewery to meet up with friends (after bbqing with my family all day) and I felt like a WW rock star when I exercised self-control and only had one drink.  After we picked up the kids, went home and put them to bed I messed things up by drinking wine and one thing led to another.  Yeah, I totally raided the stash of leftover Easter chocolate.  Doh!  I blame the cramps and the hormones, and the lowered inhibitions.

I was so exhausted yesterday.  We took the kids to the park for some soccer and a long walk and when we got home I was too tired to cook.  I sent hubby to the store for a rotisserie chicken and he came home with fried chicken, deli sides (macaroni salad and a fatty potato salad) and Hawaiian sweet rolls.  And guess who had more wine.  Double doh!  Weigh in this morning wasn't pleasant.  I was so mad at myself for my indiscretions, but hubby wouldn't let me dwell on it.  Baby girl had her 18 month check-up today (and shots, poor thing) and when we got home from that I went straight to the gym.  I pushed myself really hard today.  I am still hormonal, crampy, and kinda moody this evening.  The gloomy weather didn't help things.  I indulged again today, but at least it was with a new set of weekly points, and at least I'm steering clear of the evil chocolate that I so desperately want.  This is what I ate today:

Breakfast (11 pts)
1/2 serving soy chorizo with 1/2 serving hash browns, 1/2 c. egg whites, 1 oz shredded reduced fat cheddar, homemade salsa and a low carb flour tortilla, plus two organic skim milk/fat free hazelnut lattes.

Snack (1 pt)
Light string cheese and a banana

Lunch (14 pts)
Huge salad of greens, grape tomatoes, red onions, cucumber slices, cheddar cheese, crumbled bacon, grilled chicken breast, shredded carrots and 25 grams of bacon ranch dressing.

Dinner (17 pts)
100% organic grass fed New York strip steak, 1/2 c. roasted garlic mashed potatoes, garlic-roasted asparagus and a 5 fl oz glass of cab. Not a great pic but dang it was delicious.

I ate 43 pts+ today, so I big time dipped into weeklies.  I am going to try to spread them around this week so I'm not eating a bunch of them over the weekend.  I need to be more careful on Sundays if I want to keep weighing in on Mondays.  Ok folks, I need to go lay down.  Thanks for reading. Good night!

ETA...Dessert: I caved and had some chocolate, but not Easter chocolate; I made a single serving of Trader Joe's Reduced Guilt brownie and topped it with 1/2 a Tbsp of Nutella. Yum, and only an additional 4 points.