Change in Plans

So yesterday's calorie total is no longer accurate. Richard had a stressful day at work and decided he wanted to go out for Mexican. He told me this before I had eaten lunch, so I cut out the salad with dressing to save some calories. We hung out at the house after work and then he got involved in installing more movies on our new Apple TV and then decided he just wanted to order chinese. So I got the steam chicken and broccoli with brown rice, which was not tasty at all. I'm not sure how it all evened out.

The worse thing, though, was that I had alotted myself 2 mixed drinks (Rum and Coke Zero) and I ended up drinking 4. We have a bad habit getting settled in front of a movie or DVRd program and just drinking. I need to get out of the mode of 'well, I'll be up for another hour watching this program, I'll have enough drink.' I didn't even finish the last one....obviously I didn't want it, it was just reflex to have it.

The good thing though is I had 2 small voctories yesterday. 1 - there were cookies in the kitchen at work for everyone and I recognized that they were completely not worth the calories I would have had. 2 - and the bigger one - I did not eat anything after dinner last night. Especially when I am drinking, I lose my inhibitions often and end up grabbing some chocolate chips to satisfy my sweet tooth or, recently, Pirates Booty. This snack isn't bad as far as salty snacks go if you keep it in the serving size. But give me a bag and I will sit on the couch and mindlessly eat it. But last night I did not!

Tomorrow is going to have to be my cheat day because we are going to California Adventure and so I won't have much control over my food choices or a truly accurate way to know how much I am eating. The good news is that I'll be walking around all day!

I weighed myself first thing this morning before changing to walk the dog. This is when I will try to weigh myself from now on....I have not always been consistent about the timing on that.

I got a good walk in this morning. Vega is not always good about allowing me to just walk at a good clip....she usually does way to much stopping and smelling. But I now do lunges while she is stopped. I also did a weight routine at home a la 30-Day Shred. The philosophy behind the Shred is combining weight moves and doing them one after another to get the heart rate up and burn a lot of calories. It also puts cardio segments in to kick the heart rate up. I'll do the actual segments sometimes on my OnDemand cable....but I want to watch football and I need variety in my workouts.

I did something great and then followed-up with a screw up. We walked over to a few stores to run some errands, and one of the things I did was pick up some Oreo cookies because I want to make some homemade cookies 'n cream ice cream. I was putting the cookies in some tupperware, and I ate 4. For no reason. Well, I wanted them, but still, it was mindless. 260 calories. Unbelievable. Stupid.

So, no tortilla chips or drinking for me tonight at dinner. But these are the tradeoffs. I'd better learn from this.

Weight: 152

Exercise: 40-minute walk with the dog in morning, 30 minutes of weights

Calories: 1,452