Weekend update

My weekend went pretty much as planned with only a few exceptions.

Friday, we decided to order pizza instead of fish.  Like I said, I planned on a high calorie dinner, so I was prepared.  When we are watching what we eat, and order pizza, we only order a small pizza and we load it up with vegetables.  We'll typically get pepperoni on it too, but the bulk will be veggies.  In addition to the small pizza, we'll each get a side salad.  This is plenty for a meal and it keeps me from over eating.  If we order a medium or large, I'll end up eating 3/4 of the pizza throughout the night.  Every time I go into the kitchen, I'll grab a piece.  There's a local place that has a thick crust sicilian style pie that is really good, but only comes in a 16 slice square. The nights we order that, I end up eating 2000 calories worth of pizza!  (This would be clue #1 as to why I'm fat...)

Anyway, a side salad with dressing is around 70 calories and 3 slices from a small pie are around 660 calories.  My breakfast and lunch totaled 680 calories, dinner was 728 calories which means I had enough calories left for a small oreo cheesequake blizzard!  BONUS!  Add those 580 calories to my total and I came in at 1988 for the day.

Saturday, I went fishing, so I was eating fast food all day, but I still stayed within my quota.  My buddy and I stopped at Sheetz on the way to the lake and I got a ham, egg and cheese shmuffin for breakfast - 410 calories.  I also ordered a 6" roastbeef sandwich for lunch, all the veggies, provolone and ff italian dressing - 415 calories - and a bag of baked chips, which I only ate 3/4 of - 120 calories.  I bought a bag of sunflower seeds to chew on while fishing -180 calories.

As a sidebar - it was a cold windy day on the lake, and I only caught one perch, but it was a great day!  My boat is my happy place and I love being on the water in it.

On the way home, we stopped at Wendy's, 3 minutes after a little league team walked in...  It was the longest I've ever waited for fast food.  I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, lettuce and tomato only with bbq sauce on the side - 350 calories because I didn't get my bbq sauce.  At that point, I was just happy for food and didn't go back for the sauce.  I also ordered a small fry - 320 calories and a Ceaser side salad without croutons -  170 calories.  That put me at 1965 calories for the day.

Yesterday, I overindulged and had pastry, bacon, fresh kielbasa, ham, potatoes au-gratin, pasta, nut-roll and more.  I didn't keep track of it, enjoyed the day with family and I am back on track today.

I firmly believe that when dieting, you should have one day a week off.  I don't mean that it should always be a day of excess, but one day that you should allow yourself to indulge in any cravings.  Say I get a craving for pancakes, I can tell myself that I'll have them Sunday and I'm not depriving myself of anything.  If I'm still craving them on Sunday, I have pancakes and eat sensibly the rest of the day.  The trainer at the gym I used to belong to loved BK whoppers.  About once a month, he would go to Burger King and get 2 Whoppers a large fry and a milkshake.  If you eat sensibly 99% of the time, you can indulge cravings 1% of the time.  My problem is that I want to do the reverse!

I hope you all had a good weekend/holiday!

All it takes is patience and work.