Sunday update, weigh in and achievement!

I slept in on Sunday and didn't get around to making breakfast until 11 ish.  I made a batch of whole wheat pancakes so that I could freeze the left-overs for weekday breakfast.  Anyway, we were meeting family at Red Lobster early (3:00), so I knew I could skip lunch.  That opened up some options for me at the restaurant.  Instead of my planned meal of shrimp skewers and broccoli, I ordered their "Wood-fired grill trio"  It was a skewer of grilled shrimp, a skewer of grilled scallops and a grilled rock lobster tail.  I substituted crispy red potatoes for the rice and stuck with the broccoli side, salad and 1 biscuit.  The biscuit was the hardest part!  I love those things!

Breakfast was only 425 calories for 1 egg, 2 pancakes and syrup, so I had almost 1600 calories to play with, going into dinner.  My meal turned out to be 1070, so I went for broke and ordered dessert.  They have an apple crostada, which is fancy speak for apple dumpling alamode which was 510 calories.  The whole meal was great and came in at 1580 calories.  

That put me in at 2005 calories for the day, only 5 over my limit, but not really because I burned about 250 on the treadmill before going to dinner!!

So what does this have to do with weight loss?  Am I recommending that you eat 1500 calorie meals every day?  No.

I'm merely pointing out that losing weight doesn't have to be a sacrifice.  You don't have to live on cottage cheese, lettuce and canned tuna.  I planned my meal carefully, adjusted my plan when I could and enjoyed spending time with family.  I didn't have to sit there and either wish I could order something different or eat 3000 calories and feel like a failure because I went over my limit.  Yes, it takes some effort and yes it takes some thought, but what the hell is so hard about googling "Red Lobster Nutritional info" and logging food into an app?  You don't even have to do math because the apps do it for you! 

Also, I write this as a lecture to myself because there's a reason I got this way.  I need to keep reminding myself that it isn't hard to google "Red Lobster Nutritional info" or log food into an app!  Hell, I don't even have to do math!

Almost as if it were a reward for my efforts, I dropped 2 pants sizes in January!

I weighed in this morning as well:

On January 2nd I weighed in at 370.6 pounds
On February 4th I weighed in at 356.8 pounds

13.8 lbs lost so far.