Success and choosing my battles

I hit the gym twice this week. I call it a success. It's been more than a month since I have gone. But I went shopping on Saturday and got a pair of jeans that are a size smaller than what  I had been wearing. That is amazing motivation.

Today is my company's employee picnic. We get a 2 hour lunch and they provide food.The thing is, I know its burgers, dogs, nothing healthy and everything high calorie/high fat. So I brought  my lunch. My coworker is making me go hula hoop for awhile so I now I will burn some calories there. But the lunch just isn't worth the calories. (our cafteria is catering, they used to be awesome but the last year or so all the food quality has gone down while prices have gone up.) I am not that motivated to eat free medicore food. It realy is about choosing your battles. Do I want to indulge on food that is so-so or indulge when I am with J or hanging out with friends on the weekend.


Update: I had the hot dog and hamburger. I was hungry when I got there. Should have eaten up here. But I did hula hoop for 25 min waiting for a friend

Off to the picnic

Monday or Friday?

I really need to stop grocery shopping on Thursday. I am usually gone all weekend and then have limited time to eat my fresh veggies (sun evening, monday, tuesday and then Thursday) I feel like I through out more food than is neccessary.

Also trying to decide if I should change my weigh in day. Friday vs. Monday.
Monday keeps me accountable on weekends, which doesn't really work as well at it should. (granted I am coming off a holiday weekend.)
Friday lets me recover from falling off the wagon on the weekend.

Which is a truer measure of weight? I think I will try logging weight for both days for a few weeks and see what the numbers show.

Totally ready for the weekend. This week has been short but odd.

No Winners and No Losers

I got on the scale this morning, post holiday weekend misbehavior. No gain and no loss on the scale. That isn't bad. I was expecting a gain. I had a horrible day on Tuesday where I was hungry all day and couldn't satisfy the hunger. Then of course Saturday we were on the boat and a cook out Sunday. When I finally got home yesterday, I wasn't hungry. I ate decently but didn't eat a lot.

Started the week off well. Great breakfast.
MyFitnessPal  I can't seem to post a screen shot from here. oh well

 I am going to attempt to hit the gym tonight. Let's see what happens!

Off to Trader Joes to introduce a friend to the awesomeness!

Holiday Weekend!

Great weekend is coming to an end. I was great on food on  Friday and today so far I'm not bad. but Saturday we were on the boat which meant I drank my calories.  We got there just after 2 and left after 8. We went with friend M and C. And C made sandwiches and I brought cheese, pepperoni and crackers. And that was all I ate plus the beer. We got back to J's house and relaxed a bit and had more cheese and crackers. 
Saw some great clouds and of course a sunset over the lake is gorgeous.

Sunday was J's nephew's birthday party so we had burgers and dogs and lots of food all day. J's sister in law, also a Trader Joes fan like myself made the most amazing chocolate cake (pretty sure it was TJ cake mix) So rich, omg. She used coca-cola instead of other liquids. The cake was cookie shaped. It was awesome. I wish I had gotten a picture. dinner was more burgers and leftovers from the day.

Back at home now, I made some cheese quesadillas and just had some apple crisp I threw together a cuple of apples, walnuts, some brown sugar and GF oats. pretty good. The walnuts turned dark in the cast iron dish but it was pretty good. Oh and I covered with cinnamon. Pretty good, maybe next time I won't use the cast iron. But it was the smallest bake ware dish I had.

Now off to do laundry and lots of ironing. Back to normal business casual .