Well, missed a day of writing yesterday and the blog had its best day ever in hits. What’s up with that?
Anyway, missing a day still doesn’t mean a whole lot of news. I’m only down half a pound since Friday morning, but that is thirteen pounds total - the max that the book says you will lose in Phase I. I have to admit, I was hoping to exceed the max (in a safe range of course), but if this winds up being it I won’t be disappointed to have hit the upper limit.
This weekend was another one full of challenges, of course. Not as bad as last weekend, to be sure, but still kind of rough. On Friday, Hubbo and I went out for our date night and had dinner out for the first time in three weeks. (Did I mention we are doing budget cuts at the same time I am trying to do a fat cut?) We went to Applebee’s. I had the 7 oz Sirloin topped with sauteed mushrooms (they were probably sauteed in butter, but I chose not to ask), mixed vegetables (I ate the broccoli and not the carrots), and a side salad. And can I just say, “What the heck, Applebee’s!?!” A girl asks for vinaigrette dressing and your response is to put bacon in it? “Oh, you’re looking for a lighter option are you? Here, have a slab of fatty meat in your greens.”
Granted, I have just done a search on Applebee’s menus and found that our waiter was intellectually impaired - they do serve other vinaigrettes, despite what we were told - but seriously. Doesn’t bacon kind of defeat the purpose?
Anyway, I also suffered a great deal this morning when we went out for our weekly breakfast with friends before church and I forced myself to order the Denver omelet with no hash browns and no toast. Bummer.
Other than that, all is going fairly well. I’m getting rather used to the way I’ve been eating and I think I’ve basically formed a habit so far, so hopefully that feeling doesn’t go away. Hubbo is still happy with his dinner choices (steak with a tomato relish tonight, yum!) and so there’s not much else I could ask for, I guess.
Ready to lose the rest of these pounds is all.