Not Going Well!

GAH!  So, it’s only a week into this thing and already I’m seriously lacking in any kind of discipline.  Notably, my lack of writing here…but more importantly, I’ve been eating somewhat horribly.

The long, Holiday weekend was really bad.  I had a breakfast sandwich (egg, ham, cheese on toasted english muffin) from Dunkin’ on Saturday, roast beef sandwich with fries (BAD!) on Sunday, Thai food for dinner….then came Memorial Day.  Like all proper Americans, we had a BBQ on Memorial Day.  Which really wasn’t TOO terrible.  I had grilled chicken and a couple of grilled steak tips.  But quite a few chips (reduced fat, but STILL!), 4 lite beers and a few cookies for dessert.  OH!  Almost forgot, also had pasta salad.  Not made with mayo, but with italian dressing…so, most likely just as bad.  Not a good weekend AT ALL!

Back at work I’ve been okay.  Still sticking to yogurt for breakfast and soup for lunch.  Enjoying a piece of fruit in the meantime.  But then I get in trouble when a co-worker brings two cookies and I scarf them down as if I hadn’t eaten in days.  I really have such a hard time saying no to sweets and baked goods!

And then there was last night…I had a cup of beef stew for dinner.  Didn’t eat much of the potatoes in the stew, but ate all the meat and lots of the peas and carrots.  So, not TOO bad.  But then Brian suggested ice cream…or more that he said he wanted ice cream.  And, well, I can’t say no to ice cream!!!  It’s a problem.  So we each got ice cream bars.  Later in the evening I had a couple handfuls of mini pretzel sticks.

Today I had light yogurt and am eating an apple now.  The apple isn’t great.  Tad mealy and not much flavor.  But it’ll have to do!

Also, I’ve been good about drinking plenty of water and I did go for a nice bike ride on Saturday.  Would like to take another ride tonight after work.

That’s where things stand as of today.  So, it’s not going well.  I don’t want to get too down on myself or start to feel defeated because that’s when I give up….and I definitely don’t want to give up.  Just have to keep forging forward!!