Day 69, Day 70

Friday ended up being a great day.  I was at school from 7:45 until 5:00 then we made the 2 hour trek to Stomp, an hour and 45 min for the show and the 2 hour trek back.  I got home late but it was SOOOO worth it.

I did really well planning out my food and the only thing I didn't count on was the chocolate craving after dinner.  It probably didn't help that all the kids were walking around with shakes and ice cream cones.  I gave in and bought a Hershey's Almond bar and that put me about 100 calories over my goal but still had a B+ for my nutrition grade. 

The show was AWESOME and this was probably the smoothest band trip I've done!

I also ended up getting in my 30 minutes of exercise by running 5 laps around the halls with the kids, walking another mile around the school with *J* and then climbing the 100 steps from the lobby to the balcony.  Not to mention the 5 minute walk from the bus to the PAC with a load of excited kiddos.  I was really glad I found ways to get in the activity and not just say "no time tonight!"

Yesterday was still a great day, just in different ways.  I got up around 10:30 (thought admittedly I wanted to sleep later than that!) and sat around for a bit just waking up.  I heated up half of the last two servings of my tomato soup and then had to run to the store for the other components of my lunch. 

After I ate I ran to the gym and did my 50 minute weight circuit and then met up with *J* for some racquetball.  We didn't play very long (about a half hour) because my chest was feeling tight and congested AND about half of our students showed up for a birthday party at the Y.  AWKWARD. 

Anyway, I came home showered and changed, had my snack and headed back up to school.  Last night's trip was as equally uneventful (thank god) and the kids REALLY enjoyed the show.  Mom also met up with us to see the show and she thought it was Amazing too!  By the time I got home last night my chest was really congested and I was up for a LONG time listening to this audio book I downloaded to run to.  I ended up finishing it today...  So much for running.  OH WELL!

Day 43

Today has been a pretty good food day!  We were traveling back to the house and I made some excellent choices today.  We stopped back by my Dad's to have lunch and ended up going to a steak place.  I decided to go for their chicken strips (because they are DELISH) and instead of fries I opted to ask for green beans!  I also had a salad and a roll but managed to stay pretty low on calories!

We got home and went to the Y to run and then did our grocery shopping.  We're expecting snow tonight and I wanted to make sure we had food if we couldn't get out tomorrow. 

We did something tonight that I rarely do and had fish for dinner.  I'm just not a fan of food that comes from the ocean.  Never have been, but I'm trying to expand my horizons and decided that fish was the first step.  I decided on some Parmesan crusted tilapia and it was actually pretty good.  Not too much fishy taste.  Definitely something we can have again!

I'm hoping to get into bed pretty early tonight so I can be fully rested for when they DON'T cancel school in the morning.  I'm hoping for at least a delay, but probably won't receive that either.  OH WELL!  Here's to the end of a great diet week and the start of a new one!

Day 42

Today has been a tough decision day.  Hubs and I are traveling this weekend and that means a lot of temptation and bad food.

We went out to breakfast with my Dad and Brother this morning.  I planned what I was going to eat before I got there so I knew exactly how much I could eat.  I didn't necessarily eat the best foods but I did stick to what I logged.

After breakfast we traveled to Hub's parent's house.  We didn't have lunch because of our big breakfast but that was where the easy decisions stopped.  I thought I'd offer to make dinner for everybody so I could at least control what I ate, but everyone else wanted to order out for pizza.  I did my good little girl act and looked up my potential meal on calorie count and figured I could have 1 slice of pizza, 2 cheese sticks with sauce and a half salad, which was honestly quite enough food for me.

I'm just a little frustrated right now because Hub's kinda went food crazy all day.  He ate and ate and didn't seem to care.  It's hard to be the only one trying to make good food choices, but it becomes even harder when the people who are supposed to be your biggest supporters aren't even defending your choices.  It would have been nice if he would at least say we were on a diet so I wouldn't seem like such a control freak.  I'm already a picky eater and I'm sure this didn't help with his parents view of my meal planning.  I asked him about it and told him it would be nice to have a little more support and basically started a fight because he feels like I'm always shooting down his ideas when we plan menus.  I don't mean to, but I am A VERY picky eater and he just isn't so it's easier for me to choose what we eat and cook it. 

I'm VERY tempted to tell him he gets to plan and cook all of next weeks meals since he feels that way but I know that won't actually solve anything.  I think what I will do is build in one or two days a week where we "Roll our Own" so that he can choose what he eats.  If he wants to eat what I make that's fine, if not he can make his own decisions. 

He isn't as careful about measuring and logging his food and has been complaining lately that he hasn't been losing much weight.  I'm trying to help by portioning out dinner at least so that he knows what to expect, but I'm not going to try if all it is going to do is push us apart.  I need all the support I can get on this deal.  It would be really nice if he was trying as hard as I was...