check in day 3

oops... i'm a little late with this! yesterday was pretty good. down .4 lbs. i read my response and advantage cards, wrote down a few memories and gave my self lots of credit for doing well and making good choices. so, friday is out to lunch day. we usually go to the same place every week and i order the same thing (i've got the nutritional info, so i know what i'm working with). but we decided to go somewhere else for lunch... and it's a place that doesn't have their info available, so i had to make the best choice i could. thankfully, the friend i was with is doing weight watchers, so also tries to find healthy choices. in the end, we split the daily lunch special, which was a crab cake sandwich (it was pretty small and the crab cake was baked) and a steak salad (dressing on the side). i felt pretty good about that choice... and then they brought out the bread basket. neither one of us said anything about it... but neither of us touched it either... go us!! then they brought out our lunch. they were kind enough to split everything in the kitchen, which was nice... but that also meant we both got full servings of sweet potato fries. and i had a moment when the response cards really worked. i hadn't PLANNED for the fries. would you care to guess how many of them i ate? that would be not a single one... go me!!!

i did a bit of walking around yesterday, but not anything that i can really count as exercise... if it was 10 minutes i'd be surprised. so i'm calling it my rest day, and will resume tonight with a walk with the dog after dinner. speaking of dinner, we're going out for birthday dinner with a friend to a greek restaurant. they don't have nutritional info, but they do have their menu posted. so i will be ordering a souvlaki salad with chicken... dressing on the side. i may order a cup of avgolemino soup (so yummy!) if people are ordering appetizers... but we'll see!

was down another .6 this morning, and so far so good with how my day has gone. i leave in the morning for las vegas, and have been thinking about how i can do my best there. i'm thinking that i'll do lots of walking around instead of just parking myself at a slot machine... and i'm taking workout clothes and plan to get at least 30 minutes on the treadmill each day. i won't be able to weigh in while i'm gone, but i know i can be smart about things! TOM is due to start mid-week... so who knows what the scale will say wednesday morning (i get home tuesday night). so this is probably my last post til tuesday or wednesday... but don't worry... i'll be back!