Weekend Survived!

Hi all - I would love to say I THRIVED this weekend, but I'll setting for surviving with small successes. I know late night activities usually show up on the scale the following days for me so I resisted the scale after my Friday and Saturday evening events. Monday I showed about a pound heavier than my best weight - so I do consider that a WIN!

How I did it - I drank as much water as I could and remembered to take my Going, Going, Gone supplement when I needed to. Friday night I split a Spinach salad with Mark, then ordered a Filet with asparagus and garlic mashed potatoes - finished the asparagus and left 1/2 of both the filet and mashed potatoes - even tho the mashed potatoes were scrumptious! Then we all split a chocolate dessert - so I just took a few bites. Then we went back to our house with our friends and opened another bottle of wine and had some dark chocolate - I admit this was the weak part because we had the best wine to go with the dark chocolate, but I at least did both in moderation!

Saturday I walked 4 miles in the morning, not my usual 3 1/2 and ate healthy all day - knowing I'd be going to our wine club event. I even found a 'mostly' healthy recipe in Rachel Ray's magazine - BLT Chopped Salad Slippers - except for the bacon, it's all pretty healthy ingredients and it gave me a good option to fill up with for the evening. We did finish with a decadent chocolate cake (3 of us were celebrating birthdays), but even that I shared with Mark. Couldn't invoke Kate's poison cake stare with this one! I also couldn't resist 2nds on the chocolate dessert wine we had with the chocolate cake - too, too scrumptious! Throughout the evening I still had 2 20-oz bottles of water so - again - I still feel like I did MUCH better than I might otherwise have done!

Sunday - again a 4 mile morning walk and was able to eat in moderation, even at my in-laws, so this day was a breeze after getting through Friday and Saturday.

I do know that if I had just had ONE of these activities in a weekend, it would have been much easier to adjust both exercise and diet to balance things out. Even so, I'm not beating myself up for the 'extras' I did indulge in. I know the best thing for me to do is to get a small plate with mostly healthy items and then find someone to talk to - it's amazing how much longer the food lasts!

Onward to strengthening my healthy thoughts and habits!