The Blahs Part One
After that amazing loss I had last week, I slowly but surely was attacked and taken over by the "blahs". You know how you're so gung ho at the beginning of trying to reach a major goal, you feel like no one can stop you ? Then after a while, you simply just don't feel like it anymore ? Well, that was me for the last week. I'm happy to say that I stuck to my eating for the most part. On last Thursday and Friday I had major tummy issues, so bad that I switched from eating cottage cheese and fruit for breakfast to High Protein Special K with light soymilk, and got rid of yogurt for my morning snack and replaced that with those South Beach bars ( the peanut butter ones are awesome, btw). I had always had touches of lactose intolerance, really bad ones in high school as a matter of fact. But the lure of cheese and ice cream always got me every time.I think I'm about ready to put that to rest though. My stomach just can't handle what it used to. DH and I went out on Saturday looking at houses, and after a while we both were starving. So we went to Red Robin, one of my favorite places to throw down in my previously unhealthy life. To tell you the truth, I was a little uneasy at first. But then I thought about the fact that I can't hide in my house forever, I have to figure out how to make this lifestyle work for me wherever I am. I knew that I was going to have one of their Freckled Lemonades (basically lemonade w/ strawberries), but I limited myself to just one, and I didn't even finish that. Next came the menu. Now, I could have very well had a Gardenburger or a Boca burger....but both of them came with fries, and that's just a disaster waiting to happen. So I ordered the soup and salad combo instead. The only soup that didn't have meat in it was the french onion, and if you've had french onion soup in a restaurant you know that 90% of the time it's more bread than soup. There were croutons in the soup, on top of the soup and there were 2 small pieces of bread on the side. 
And the supposed "garden side salad" had shredded cheese and tortilla strips in it 
. I knew ahead of time to get my lowfat dressing on the side, or it would have been completely drenched.Yes, it was definitely a test. I ate all of the onions and broth out of the soup ,left the croutons, and had one piece of the bread on the side. Luckily, my DH took care of the rest. As for the salad, I ate about 1/3 of it, trying to get to the biggest pieces of lettuce and tomatoes. Amazingly after that, I was full. That may not sound like a big thing to most, but for me to actually leave a table with a big amount still on my plate was a triumph.
Well, that gets you up to speed up until this new week. I'll talk about the days since, and my battle with exercise later.