I have a confession to make. After a week of being cooped up, I decided to go and take my sister out for her birthday last night. I was feeling better (worse now, though) and Izzy seemed completely over her illness. Mike was coming down with it and I thought it would be better for everyone to let him have a little time to himself to rest after a stressful week. On my way, I told myself that I was going to make healthy decisions at dinner, we just splurged for our 9 year anniversary last week so no need to have a similar event last night. Well, it didn't happen. First off, I was STARVING when I got there and we had to wait at least an hour, maybe an hour and a half before getting seated (the first place we went to had a 2 hour wait so we tried another). My entree was sensible enough (rice with steamed veggies) but then I got a salad (uh-oh, 250 calories worth of cheese and croutons and 150 calories worth of dressing). Then they brought the bread, the yummy yummy bread (150 points /roll, I had 2 plus 2 containers of butter for another 200 calories). When we got back to my sis's, guess who had cake and icecream??? I couldn't believe how quickly and easily I tossed the diet out the window. I calculated it all today and I went over my 13 points (650 calories). It will take me most of the week to "bank" those points again through exercise and eating a little less each day. It isn't unrecoverable, so that is positive, I am just disappointed in myself for not stickign to my original plan. What happens in restaurants that makes things go so crazy. For one, I am going to ask for them not to bring bread next time I eat out.
Have a sore throat and icky attitude. Hopefully it won't persist. My plan is to exercise Tuesday and Thursday this week.
# posted by amy @ 6:36 PM
