Sigh. This whole process is quite the process. Forgive my absence for a few days. I know I'm supposed to be here updating every day as part of my experiment, but I took a bit of a stumble, if you will.
Sunday I slept in after going out the night before for celebrations. If you'll recall, I was pleased with how well I had done for only having two cocktails. Fast forward to my friend calling and wanting to meet up for lunch and a few drinks. Lunch and a few drinks quickly got out of hand. We had lunch and a beverage at Opal Divine's, before heading across the street to Dogwood, where I believe I had another three beverages. At this point, we went to my friend's bar The Love Goat, where it was Free Champagne Sunday. I had too many beverages to count in the next several hours as we all hung out. We were out long enough that it became dinner time and we got cheeseburgers for dinner from Dirty Martin's next door.
So to recap, I broke several of my diet guidelines. I ate gluten. I did not have a salad for either meal. And while I didn't mention anything about alcohol when I set all of this up, I definitely drank far too much in one day. Or one week really.
Monday I was feeling rather dehydrated (imagine that), so I drank as much water as possible and had salads for both lunch and dinner. I did not get my walk in either Sunday or Monday.
So those are the lows. Pretty low, I know.But today was a new day and I was not going to throw in the towel.
This morning I weighed in to see how I did in Week 1 and the result was pretty good: I was 284.2. Which means I lost 4.8 pounds! I'm trying not to dwell on how that number could have been higher if I had not let myself get so far off-track. I prefer to use it as motivation to stay on track for this next week so I have another decent number next Tuesday. I went to the gym today for what I would call a great/killer workout. I did a warm up, got in two tense weight circuits (I had planned to do three, but my muscles were screaming), did some additional lunges and squats, abs, and stretching. I also got in my walk.
Breakfast: Greek yogurt with honey (All out of fruit this morning)
Lunch: Veggie burrito bowl from Chipotle
Dinner: HEB small Rotisserie Chicken Chef-Prepared garden salad. Greens with a scoop of chicken salad, cucumber, shredded carrots, and ranch dressing. I picked off the tomatoes, obvs.
Dessert: Small cup (actual term) of Ben & Jerry's Raspberry FroYo I've been digging lately
So those are the highs. Looking forward to yoga tomorrow!
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