As I wrote in my update yesterday I didn’t have a good weekend diet-wise and that contributed to a gain for the week. Now is the time to go back and analyze what happened so that I can do better next time. I really don’t know where this post is going to go since I have been trying to not think about it, so I’m just going to start from the beginning and see what comes out. Since I did not record what I ate obviously what I’ll write about represents the best case scenario - most likely I have left out a lot of eating that I forgot about.
We left on Friday afternoon at 4:00pm. The plan was to get as much driving in as we could during the daylight, then find somewhere quick to eat around 7:00pm before arriving at the house we were renting in Northern Wisconsin. Of course quick means McDonald’s. At this point in the trip I was thinking about my diet. I drank a bottle of water during the drive and at McDonald’s I had a grilled chicken sandwich and a water and that was it. I didn’t order fries and I didn’t nibble on anyone else’s either. I had a piece of gum for dessert. So far so good. I was thinking about my diet and taking appropriate action.
We got settled into the house at around 8:00pm and one of the other guys we were with started drinking beer. I opted for water. There was Gorp, there was chips, there was a lot of food available and from what I can remember I didn’t eat any of it. I went through 3 or 4 bottles of water before we went to bed at around Midnight.
At this point I have to say I’m doing well.
Saturday morning I ate a banana, a couple of caramel rolls and a cup full of egg bake for breakfast. I was no longer thinking about my diet. Just like that. We were at a kids basketball tourney during the morning and at about 11:00 my kids and I went to the concession stand for a treat. My daughter bought a bag of pretzels and my son bought a candy bar. I decided I needed two hot dogs and a bag of potato chips. This was only a few hours after eating a big breakfast.
I had a big bowl of chicken chili for lunch later in the afternoon. I munched on Gorp. I ate some oranges. I did get a little exercising in with some snowshoeing but it was not enough. Lasagna for dinner. And pizza. Chocolate cake. A bowl of Twizzlers. More Gorp. Some chips. Oh and I switched from drinking water to drinking wine. Sweet German wine. There was some healthy options available. We had energy bars and salad available. I didn’t have any. I know I ate some chocolate cookies at some point.
Breakfast on Sunday was leftover egg bake and left over lasagna. Enough for 3 people surely.
On the way home we stopped at McDonald’s again. I went with the crispy chicken sandwich this time, and while I still didn’t order any fries I did eat almost a whole order out of my family’s orders.
I knew going into the weekend that it was a recipe for a disaster and while I started off on the right foot I fell into a grazing habit very quickly the first morning there. Because I did so well on Friday night that tells me I can do it. I didn’t feel any peer pressure to eat or drink that night, and so there should have been no reason I couldn’t continue with that. I don’t think there is any reason for me straying other than laziness. I didn’t think about my diet when I woke up and from that point on it was downhill. I bet if I had started that day out better I could have kept it going.
I really appreciate all the great comments I have received over the past week - I’ve been remiss in responding to them but hope to rectify that soon. Unfortunately tonight isn’t going to be the night because it’s already 10:00 and I have to get up in 5 hours to go to Chicago again for a couple of days.
I’m bringing my workout clothes and a focus on staying on the straight and narrow.
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