Good morning!
I survived yesterday with no trouble. I was nowhere near the max of my RDI, as a matter of fact I had 500 left. At least, so I think I did. Eating at restaurants is always hard, when you have to guesstimate your calorie intake.
What I did do what to enjoy a good, large lunch, count everything to the best of my abilities, and move on. I had an ice cream with the family later - not the smalles one, but by no means a large on either.
And that's it. That's all I had.
On the way to the train home, I felt the carb monster calling - probably the thought of being able to buy chocolate for the train ride, along with the fact that dinner would be late and outside my feeding window. I had the urge to eat, but not real hunger.
So, I ended up buying a 100g chocolate. I just couldn't NOT buy it. However, being a big boy I manned up, and threw it in the trash. I really am proud of this - it was a tough decision and I am happy that I had clear thinking for a moment and happened to go by a trash can at the station. And fortunately, the trash can was gross enough to NEVER want to come back to. :)
As we came home, I realized that I felt no real hunger, and I decided to skip dinner. We were gonna just go get some food at the pizza place - I was gonna have a very reasonable pita with ham - but I opted out. I'm proud I did. This left me safely in the clear on my calories.
I moved around quite a lot yesterday, of course.
Check out my stats here. :)
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Of course, I'm NOT down in weight today. :/ I do think that lunch yesterday held my weight drop back, and I wasn't expecting one. At least I didn't gain further weight, so that's a good start.
So, today I'm in the safe zone on my calories. I'm gonna do right and I'm gonna do well, knowing that both Friday and Saturday will have food challenges for me. Today need to be straight.
I had lunch a little bit early - I was hungry at 10, even if my feeding window normally "opens" at 11. Still, I didn't have any "real" meal since noon yesterday, and only thing I had other than that was ice cream at 4 pm.
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Today, my feeding window will close a little earlier than 7 PM anyways. I will be working at the gym, and my last meal will be dinner before I go, so probably at 4:30 pm or so.
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This is is, of course, town festival week here. It's food challenges EVERYWHERE! I just try to stay away from the worst of the challenges, and I think I'm doing okay. It won't by any means be perfect, but so far so good.
I'm happy that I stayed good on my calories yesterday, and I think I'll be doing okay as an overall result at the end of the week. Still, many things can/will happen, and there is no telling where I'm gonna end up.
I'll just have to be back on track starting Sunday (but, obviously, do my best up until then still), and really hit it hard from then. This is why I don't like festive times and vacations. THey're such a frickin' challenge.
But overall, things are great. Tings are fun. I'm eating good foods, and I feel that I am generally in charge of things. Sure, I stumble and fall, but I seem to be able to get to pick myself up and at least not gain weight overall.
It's really hard, though, to see how things truly are when I have these severe ups and downs on my calorie intake. It's super hard to see through what is actual fat loss/gain, and what is simply me "eating a lot", even if the calories are low.
So, overall, it's all good. :)
Today, I'm going out to check out the town with a friend. Wife might go too. Sadly, the weather is nowhere near as nice as it has been the last few weeks. Still, it'll be a fun day.
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Today, I'm thankful for:
- A nice long night's sleep.
- A great track record yesterday on both calories in and out.
- Wife.
- Vacation time.