Why hello there!

I hope everyone had a great Saturday (and Friday… my bad.) I can summarize how my Friday was with a haiku  lieu of a blog post:

Not much food in day

Hit by racquetball a lot

Snacked too much in night

I woke up this morning and decided to weigh to see where I was at and I was up from 285.5 on friday morning to 291 this morning! What the crap!?! I really really really really really really really need to stop weighing constantly. It’s become this addiction which I know is really unhealthy. I know that the number isn’t what matter as much. I’m not going to fall below some red line or get voted out by some toolbags on the Red team because I use to be on the Black team just because I didn’t lose enough. I need to be okay with the ebb and flow of this journey and that’s been hard. With that said, I had a NSV today that made whatever the scale says tomorrow moot. (If I were you I would keep reading.)

Breakfast: I went the “eat six small meals” route today to really kick start my metabolism. When I was working on my morning internship duties, I just had a Nature Valley Oats n’ Honey bar pack for 4 points. I think that was the last one I’ll have in a while. I’m getting burnt out on them.

Mid Morning Snack: I decided to make a wafflewich around 10:00 so I could hold myself over until lunch. I did it the right way (aka the way A Girl Who Loves Cupcakes (you really need to check out her awesome blog!!!!) makes them) with half a banana. It was delectable and really filling. Not a bad 6.5 point morning snack.

Non Scale Victory! So if you follow me on either Facebook or Twitter, you may recall I said I turned the clock back to 1999 today. Well here’s why… We went to Old Navy to pick up some cheap flip flops (an American summer tradition) and just to look around. The last time I bought jeans from Old Navy was 1999. After then, I couldn’t really fit into their pants (you know… the obesity thing) but today I found a pair of jeans and a pair of  brown pants that fit perfect! So I bought them! And they were on sale! I really never thought I would ever be able to buy pants from a non Big and Tall section ever again back before I started this thing so this was a really big (or little) day for me and it made me realize that even if the scale is moving at a snail’s pace, I’m still making awesome strides and obviously my body is changing. Pretty awesome revelation.

Lunch: After our escapade to ON, we went to Subway. I had the Megan Special which is Black Forest Ham and other awesome things on Whole Grain bread. It was 8 points of yumtasticness.

Snack: I had an apple and some chocolate covered coffee beans because they are awesome; so that was my afternoon snack. 2 points.

Dinner: As part of our dinner and a movie, we decided to make one of our favorite meals together that we haven’t made since we lived in our shoebox of an apartment in Abilene. We made Veggie Lasagna out of the Taste of Home cookbook. It was amazing beyond belief. All it is is lasagna with carrots, peppers, onions and zucchini. It takes a while to make, but you can eat off of it for days. I had 2 ginormous slices with a big ol’ salad with basalmic vinegar and a tsp of olive oil. It was a great meal. We haven’t had a nice sit-down meal at home in a while so it was a special dinner for us. (We are going to go see the Adjustment Bureau tonight. I’ll review it tomorrow.) Oh yeah, dinner was 11 points.

So overall I got to 31.5 points which is fine with me. So as you’ve read, the scale is becoming my enemy (which is one of my no-no’s) since Mr. Scale has been kind of a tool lately. Although I’m a little worried about tomorrow, I’m in a zen state of whatever happens happens. Bring it on Mr. Scale, I want to be your friend, but right now you’re that friend who doesn’t return my calls. See ya tomorrow.