A day late post

Last night turned into a family movie night in our living room with the kids. By the time Despicable Me ended (which was a pretty good lil movie if you haven't seen it) it was nearly midnight. I was tired and just went to bed instead of turning on the computer, so I didn't update my calories on Myfitnesspal.com or post anything here. So let me dedicate this post to yesterday's info and then tonight I catch up on today's.

As I updated on Friday, I was pretty bummed about not seeing the scale move at the final weigh in and completely blew my healthy eating. The effects of the fat, sodium and bad carbs that I consumed Friday were very evident Saturday. My watch and wedding band were tighter from the fluid I was retaining. This will be gross, but my urine had a foul odor. I just felt blah through Friday night and Saturday morning. All this mixed together to provide the kick in the pants I needed to tighten up my eating habits.

For breakfast I had one scrambled egg white and half of a whole scrambled egg along with 2 slices of lower sodium turkey bacon made in the microwave. For lunch I ate a foot long turkey and ham sub from Subway with a 75 calorie bag of light Lays chips. Some people can't deal with the Olestra oil they make them with, but it never does anything to me. I kept the cheese off my sub and used mustard in lieu of mayonaisse. All together lunch was only 675 calories. Usually I wouldn't eat a whole foot long, but breakfast was only 150 calories and I'd rather have my big meal at lunch instead of right before bed.

I had planned on baking chicken breast for dinner in some recipe, but by the time we got home from the grocery it was too late to start cooking. So for dinner I had a Flatout wrap with shredded lettuce, a little shredded cheese, lean smoked turkey and some light avocado ranch dressing. To go with it I had a serving of baked Tostitos Scoops with the homemade pico de gallo/salsa I made. A banana was my desert.

It's funny how old habits rare their ugly head. At least 4 times during the movie I had the thought to get a snack. Eating and movies always went together for me, but not now. I wanted popcorn, gummies or anything else I could get. Then I reminded that old Mike voice that I wanted to not be fat more than I wanted a snack and enjoyed my Diet Pepsi instead.

It's cold today and we even had a trace of snow this morning. I'm going to bundle up this afternoon and go for a walk anyway though. No more excuses not to exercise. I looked at my calorie and exercise reports on myfitnesspal.com and see why the scale isn't moving. I didn't realize how often I have had higher calorie days. February 27th was a big calorie day with the pizza buffet, so that most likely caused a big gain. In all actuality, if I would have weighed everyday last week I would have seen a gain followed by continual losses. In the last 2 weeks I have had 2 days of over 3000 calories. This can't happen again. If I have a bad meal, it has to stay just a bad meal not a bad 2 or 3 meals. So my two steps to work on are 1.) stay within my allowed calories, and 2.) exercise each day even if just a 20 minute walk. My weight loss goal for my weigh in next Friday is 6.5 pounds. I want to be in the 350's. More to come tonight. Have a good day.