I’ve been eating pretty
low points this week. It wasn’t planned
per se but by the time I put together a meal plan it ended up that a lot of my
meals were low in points. That is the biggest
difference between eating at home vs. eating out. It is no wonder you can gain weight easily
when eating out a lot. I didn’t have any
plans to eat out at the start of my week but that seemed to change rather
quickly starting on Tuesday.
My coworker sent me a
text on Tuesday that she would be going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner if I
wanted to join her. She was a bit bummed
she didn’t get the supervisor position so she needed her spirit lifted. I felt like I should participate and since I’ve
been declining a lot of social food stuff at work, I moved my planned meal to
another day and said yes to Texas Roadhouse with the group.
I did some pre-planning and
looked up the points at various restaurants ribs as I love the half slab rib
meal at Roadhouse. I selected a Caesar
side salad and a baked potato as my sides.
I ate half the ribs and potato and had the dressing and the butter and
sour cream on the side. Total points
used for this meal was 20 SPV.
Tuesday evening I got an
invite for a MS talk/dinner on Wednesday to meet up with Jamie at Kona
Grill. I ordered the Ceasar salad with the
dressing on the side and the macadamia nut chicken which was served with broccoli
and mashed potatoes. I halved the potato
portion and only ate half of the very large portion of chicken sending the
leftovers home with Jamie. Kona Grill
has nutrition info online (except for the sugar numbers) so it was easy to
factor up the points. Total points used
for this meal was 25 SPV.
On Thursday, Kenyon and I
went to Shari’s for breakfast before we meet with the realtor at the new house. I was craving pancakes and bacon
and since we didn’t have any bacon at home we opted to eat out. I had one pancake with a small amount of
butter and syrup, two slices of bacon, and two poached eggs. Total points used for this meal was 15 SPV.
Tonight after I get off
work from my four hour OT shift, Kenyon and I are going to dinner at
Tucanos. This was one of my planned
meals out this week. Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday just happened to end up that way.
Since it will be early in my day I should be able to off-set the points
again.
For some reason I have
been a bit nervous about using my weekly points. The past two weeks I’ve gone into the
negative and still had a good size loss.
So I’m not sure why I was so protective of my WSPA. I actually ended up off setting my high
points meals eaten out with my low point planned meals eaten the rest of the
day and have used very few weeklies.
I’m meeting Phoenix and
her daughter for some fun at the Canyon County Fair on Saturday. I’m pretty sure there will be some beer
consumed as it is going to be over 100 degrees and we need to stay
hydrated.
My activity has been
really great this week as well. I made
it to Curves two days and walked on the treadmill at work three days.
I can’t say enough how
much I love this successful feeling. I
am not sure why up until now I wasn’t quite ready but I am really happy that I
am now finally ready to make positive changes.
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