Weight Loss is Hard

What a nice weekend!  Friday, BFF, ShareBear & I went to see the Smurfs.  I <3 Neil Patrick Harris.  :)  It was a cute movie.  It was an early night after my week of early morning workouts.

Saturday started right with Jazzercise.  I continued the good streak with errands then came home and cleaned out my closet.  How productive, right!?!  I found a box of clothes as I was cleaning and I realized that I had packed it away right after my surgery.  There were two pairs of size 22W pants.  I remember that I was busting out of them before my surgery, but within a couple weeks after, they were too big.  Needless to say, they were like clown pants now.

There was also a bunch of "skinny" clothes in there as well.  There were about 5 pairs of size 18 NY&Co pants that are as cute as can be.  They were my favorite pants in my brief smaller period in 2006.  They were ALL too big.  I wish I would have remembered they were down there.  They would have been nice to have last Fall!!  There were also several shirts that I wore during that time.  Some are out of style, some were too big and a few I kept and are perfect right now.  How fun!  There is one shirt that I remember NEVER fit.  I bought it on sale as an incentive or something, but I never quite made it.  It fits perfectly now!!  YAY!

For dinner, BFF, Armstrong & I went to a pizza place for dinner.  I feel like I ate an appropriate amount and the pizza was very tasty.

Yesterday, church, more errands and chores, then I cooked.  I grilled turkey burgers, andouille sausage, veggie kabobs, & sweet potatoes.  It was delicious and there is plenty leftover for the rest of the week.

NSA - I have to say that I have been doing okay without the scale, but I still have the weekend slump.  With all the calories I burn, I should be having such great deficits each day, but I still make bad food choices on the weekend.  I can narrow down my issues for this week:

• I ate paella EVERY night for dinner.  I'm actually okay with this.  It is not low calorie, but it was homemade with all fresh ingredients.  There is nothing particularly bad about it except the servings have close to 500 calories which is higher than my target for dinner.  (Lunch is my biggest meal of the day.)
• I went to the grocery store hungry on Saturday.  I got two things off list:  queso & a dark chocolate bar.  Neither of those things are particularly horrible, but I ate the entire package of queso with chips AND the chocolate bar with peanut butter and graham crackers over the course of the weekend.  The chocolate concoction was probably about 1200 calories combined and I'm guessing the queso was about 1500 combined.  That was 2700 calories this weekend that I WASTED.  Again, I didn't eat these at one sitting, but grazed on it over two days here and there.  IT ADDS UP!

That kind of made me a little ILL to write out.  When you sample a little bit here and grab a little bit there, it just doesn't seem like much.  But when I look at it this way...ugh!!  Those are the kinds of choices that I would like to change.  I think by simply not going to the grocery store hungry, I could have avoided that.  I only eat what is there...if I don't buy it, it isn't there. 

Amazingly, I still had a deficit for the week.  Thank you Jazzercise & CrossFit!  Without the scale, I don't know exactly how it translates into weight loss but I will just keep moving ahead.

It sucks that you can do so many things right:

1. Worked out 6 1/2 hours for the week.  3 CrossFit, 3 Jazzercise, 1 Walked at lunch.
2. Drank over 100 ounces of water every day.
3. Avoided processed foods for dinner.  (Avoiding them for lunch will come later this month.)
4. Doing better with measuring and paying attention to portion control.
5. Avoided treats after dinner instead having low calorie choices available.

Yet, one trip to the grocery store all but wiped out all that hard work.  I'm not whining or complaining, I'm just putting fingers to keyboard to show myself what "a few bites" or "just a little here and there".  Weight loss is hard.  But not being honest with myself will just make it harder and more frustrating. 

Hugs!!