Weekend update

Friday was a pretty good day.  I stayed home from work in case I needed to deal with something at the vets.  All was quite on that front - the dog is home and doing much better - so I exercised and then went out and cut the lawn.  After finishing and cleaning up, it was late afternoon and I hadn't eaten lunch.  This is where I get in trouble.  Do I eat something small to carry me over until dinner, or do I eat a full meal, call it an early dinner and then have something light later in the evening.  Either way, I end up hungry at some point and have to fight blowing my calorie limit. 

Anyway, I decided on a grilled chicken salad from the local pizza place.  Whenever I order a grilled chicken salad, I always want to order bread-sticks, and end up eating the full order which is probably about 1200 calories in bread.  That kind of defeats the purpose of the salad.  I really wanted the bread-sticks.  I thought about asking them to make a half order, but I'm not a special request person.  It bugs me when people start ordering like that.  One time we were having a casual family get together, and were ordering pizzas.  My sister told me to order her pizza and this is how the order started.  "Order a large, with extra sauce on half.  On the half with extra sauce, order 2 pieces with pepperoni, 3 pieces with green pepper, mushrooms..."  I stopped her at that point and told her to place her own order.  Same thing with drive-thrus.  When you pull up to a drive thru, there should be no special orders.  It shouldn't be more than "Gimme a number one with a coke, a number 3 with a diet coke...."  If you want a big mac with no special sauce, or are ordering for 5 people and they all need to be separate bills, park the car and walk your ass inside!  Sorry... getting off track.

I ended up ordering the bread-sticks but as soon as I got home, before eating my salad, I pulled two bread-sticks, and then wrapped up the balance of the order into two packs and put them in the freezer.  Then I ate my salad with the two bread-sticks and didn't blow my limit for the day.  I did have the munchies later, but a bowl of cereal carried me through.

Saturday was normal and Sunday was my day off.  I didn't eat anything special, but I still went over my limit by about 700 calories.  I just ended up munching all day and it added up.

All it takes is patience and work.