Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Tuesday Weigh In

254.0

In a word: yay! This is Tuesday, and thus my big official side of the blog weigh in. 254.0 means I lost 3.2 pounds this week, and have now lost precisely 10 pounds since I started. And it's a great weigh in. 3.2 pounds is above what I expect to lose in a week.

I went for a walk yesterday and Saturday, but I haven't really been exercising as I'd like. The lion's share of the credit goes to the relatively on point job I've been doing with food. While I did have a horrible Thursday night involving a pizza (and a Friday that, I admit, included pizza leftovers), I've been doing a solid job keeping calories to a minimum even on the pizza night. Other than Thursday (when I think I hit about 1800), I think most days I was right around the 1200 mark. All in all, numbers to be proud of.

The 254 weigh in also means I have now met my initial "super mini goal" of being 255 or less by the time I go down to North Carolina on Friday to visit one of my friends. This goal was originally invented as a stretch goal, and I'm glad I hit it. My mini goal is to get to 250 by 10/25 (which will mark having lost 5% of my starting weight), a goal I'm quite well placed for. I have four pounds to lose and 20 days to do it.

It will not, however, be as smooth sailing as it might seem. On Wednesday night, I'm going over to a friend's house for a movie and take out. Despite the added calories, this is worth doing: friends are important, and I don't want my diet to lead to locking myself away. A single meal is also easy enough to make up by just keeping the rest of the day low calorie.

This weekend, however, will be trickier. Friday after work I'm flying down to North Carolina to visit one of my best friends from college. He's an awesome guy, and he's currently down there getting his Ph.D. from Duke. If I were making a list of my favorite people in the world, he'd easily have a spot in the top three. So, going down to visit him is all kinds of awesome, and I'm very, very excited.

The visit, however, is going to be a diet disaster. He wants us to go to a Brazilian steakhouse (one of our occasional traditions out at Chicago), which, if you've never been to one, is basically a temple to meat. Just imagine a buffet, only the food is actually good and fresh and you don't need to stand up to get it. Waiters come around and bring you unlimited quantities of things like filet mignon wrapped in bacon. If delicious and gluttony had a child, it would be a Brazilian steakhouse. I'm not saying you should go, but if you ever say "screw the weight loss thing, I want a heart attack" a Brazilian steakhouse would be approximately the best way to make that choice. (For the comments: have any of you ever been to one?)

So, that's going to throw me off course. I'll talk more tomorrow about how I'm going to plan for the weekend and what strategies I'll use, but for now, I'm not going to stress. I lost 3.2 pounds this week, and hit my first mini goal. Today I think I get to be proud.

5 comments:

  1. Trips are diet killers, but it's usually easy weight to get back off if you hop back on the wagon immediately.

    Kudos on the kick-ass weigh-in, Hadley.

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  2. Stick to the leaner meats and lower carby sides at the steakhouse. Those things are like meat-heaven though so it is going to take a will of steel to do it. I can barely look at one of those restaurants without salivating. We've got some great ones in Houston.

    For rest of your trip you might try focusing on eating mostly fruits and veggies to offset the results of meat 'o rama.

    But You Go Girl on the loss this week. That is a great week. Sometimes I think when we throw our bodies a one day curveball (a la pizza) it gets all happy and allows the other days to be more productive (said in my I think I just made up that science in my head voice). ;)

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  3. Awesome job on the weight loss this week! Enjoy your time with your friends and make conscious decisions about the food that you eat. It's ok to splurge here and there but you know you won't feel good if you do it all weekend. Good luck!

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  4. OMG! You made it back. Thank you, Thank you, for coming back. I really missed you. I will be catching up on your post this week and looking forward to reading more. What a happy day! Welcome back :-)

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  5. Hadley! You are back - so glad to read that you are doing well!

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