Week Eleven Recap

Week 11 started out really well!  Thursday came and I started slipping a little each day.

I had lunch with my friend on Thursday and the meal came with a little chocolate covered strawberry. I intended to save it for Rori when we were in the parent pick up line at the boys' school, but she fell asleep and it looked yummy so I went ahead and ate it.  The boys would've fought for it if they had seen it so I was just preventing a fight, right?!  =)  Then for dinner I made a pineapple chicken stir fry with a pot of brown rice for Jeremy and the kids.  Dinner ended up being so late because we were decorating for my son's upcoming birthday party and I was starving.  I had just a little brown rice with my stir fry.

Friday went well until our late dinner after the basketball games.  We went to Rosati's and I ordered my go to salad (antipasto salad), but the temptation of pizza was STRONG!  I ended up eating a small piece of thin crust pizza (when I really wanted a big piece of the deep dish one).  I also gave in and had a bite of the brownie they brought out for my son's birthday.  My sweet 8 year old niece thought to ask the waitress if they celebrate birthdays because her cousin is turning 13 the next day. She's so thoughtful!!  I'm glad it got devoured quickly because it was hard to resist taking more bites.

Saturday went surprisingly well considering we had 2 baseball games and a soccer game and I ran out of the house that morning with very little healthy snack options.  I ended up getting a grilled chicken salad at Burger King for lunch at 2:00.  I actually had to leave the KFC drive-thru line because they told me they no longer serve grilled chicken.  Bummer (and a little embarrassing).

We had to rush home after my son's second baseball game to get ready for the party.  So, I had a late start on heating up the food for dinner which meant another late dinner for us. I had bought tons of appetizers for food for the party (chicken wings, meatballs, taquitos, egg rolls, etc) and I loaded up with the Costco desserts: brownie bites, frosted lemon bites & pumpkin cheesecake bites. Not many choices for me to eat. Luckily I had thought ahead to make a chili that I can eat (and for some parents that were coming to the party that are trying to eat well with me).  So that's what I had for dinner.  I would've been OK, but there were soooo many desserts left and I thought, well, I did good today - I'm gonna have half of each of the three different desserts.  No one wanted the other half though so I ended up eating it.  So, I had 1 brownie bite, 1 lemon bite & 1 pumpkin cheesecake bite. Ugh.  I should've just packed them up and put them away instead of leaving them out.  Thankfully, Jeremy took them to church the next morning to get them out of the house.

Then comes Sunday.  I ended up eating 2 chicken wings at Barro's after church and I had some brown rice with some leftover meatballs for dinner, and I had a handful of Chicago Mix popcorn (cheddar cheese popcorn/caramel corn). Boo.

I always feel like I'm just a meal or two away from returning back to my old bad eating habits.  This just goes to show that I cannot let my guard down and I need to stay accountable to people because these slip ups were not nearly as bad as how I would've eaten 11 weeks ago.

If I were to go back to Thursday-Sunday and tell you how I would've eaten, it would be this:

Thursday: I would've ordered another yummy dessert at our lunch place AND ate the chocolate covered strawberry (plus I would've ordered a sandwich with my soup  instead of a salad).  And for dinner I would've had LOTS of brown rice.

Friday: I would've had 2 slices of the deep dish pizza and as many bites of brownie as I could've had before it was gone.

Saturday: I would've eaten a little of all the appetizers and a lot of the desserts (at least 2 of each). Plus I would've had a soda and tons of the Chicago Mix popcorn.

And Sunday: I would've had 2 slices of the pizza, about 4 wings and I would've asked my husband to order the pazooki cookie dessert.  Oh yea, plus a soda.

I've come a long way, but like I said, it's going to be tricky to not end this challenge and end up eating like that again.  I know I will have to continue to do something for accountability so that doesn't happen.  I've come too far to go back now. I'll have to work on my game plan since next week is my LAST WEEK of this challenge!!