Day Seventeen

Well, I am just really flat out embarrassed about what I ate yesterday. Yep. That is definitely the word I would use. I think I looked forward too much to yesterday because I knew we were having a special lunch at work and that would include dessert.

I did okay with lunch. Broccoli and cheese soup - 300 calories, 1/2 Caesar salad - 87 calories (removed the croutons except 3) and didn't put the dressing on top - just put my fork in the dressing before I put my fork in the salad. It was such a good lunch. Then came dessert. She brought 5 pieces of cake. Now there were 4 of us at lunch but only 2 of us ate cake. I should have taken the hint. No, I ate the caramel cake instead. Then took two pieces home - gave one to my husband, ate the bottom half or the chocolate one and then gave the top to my daughter. I still ate supper, crock pot turkey, green beans, water - then made four squares of smores later as a bedtime snack. Why? I have no idea. Probably because deep down I thought, "well I have eaten cake today so why not? and I have lost 13 pounds, so what could it hurt?" Trust me - all my bad choices lately are showing today. I haven't lost enough to be able all out splurge like that. Especially four times in one week. "Be sure your sins will find you out."

Mine have - to the tune of a 1.5 lb weight gain this morning. Yes, I got on and off the scales twice hoping the number was a fluke. How funny is that - just like the day I had lost two pounds the first time. Why is it we can't trust what we see when we say we want proof? South Beach warns of this. Of feeling like we can have "a little of this and a little of that" here and there. It always catches up. So, I have to jump back on. We have another lunch today. But I will eat a fudgesicle if I need something sweet.

I hope you are all doing better and hanging in there. The war continues, but the battles are thankfully spread further apart.

Blessings