Raytchaelle

I’ve been surprising myself this weekend. My parents are here and the last time they came to visit I think I gained about 10 lbs in 2 weeks… so I was a little afraid of a repeat performance! So far so good though! We all piled in the car saturday morning to go to IHOP… in the past that meant eating large amounts of breakfast food for no better reason than not wanting to waste money. Let’s face it, restaurants give us WAY too much food and then I feel guilty about not eating it all if someone else is paying (even when I’m paying)… so I eat more than I should. So I get my usual… colorado omelette… meat and cheese wrapped in eggs… YUM! So to save on calories I had decaf coffee… I drank 2 cups before the food came to fill me up a little… I ended up taking half home! In the past I would eat the whole thing… pancakes and all… yikes! (is it any wonder I got so fat?) I knew that last that night we were having a big barbeque so I didn’t eat anything else the rest of the day… and I spent a good hour chasing my daughter around Toys-R-us… she can really run fast when she wants to… I did good last night too… Had brats without buns to cut back on the carbs… when I weighed in this morning I only went up like .o3 lbs… I have to say that put a smile on my face. Especially since the day before my weight went down so much… anywho, my husband and I had planned a “date day” for today since my parents were here to babysit for us.
When we got up my Mom wanted to make us all breakfast… rather than overeat right off I opted for just finish that half an omelette from the day before (I didn’t save the pancakes). Then we went running around in Lowes for a while looking at ceiling fans and playsets. Then Jeff and I took off as planned for a nice lunch and a movie… we went to Outback and shared a small plate of cheese fries… we ate less than half.. I got a 6oz steak and mashed potatoes and ate only half the steak and less than half the potatoes…. we had to try the desserts… so we got the sampler and split it… didn’t even finish it (it was really good though). I was really proud of both of us. So we went to the movies and got drinks (diet sodas) and Jeff just had to get his beloved sour patch kids… I ate about 4 of them and he ate the rest. Not bad considering how badly we could have done. There was so much temptation and it used to be hard for me to just put the fork down and say no. Lately that’s been getting easier. I hope I can continue stopping before I go overboard… make it a lifelong habit. I’m anxious for tomorrow morning’s weigh in. I really hope I went down a little more.
Oh, between lunch and the movie we went to the mall so I did get some more walking in. Tomorrow if the weather is nice we plan to go swimming… otherwise Jeff and I might slip away for an evening walk.
Sadly for Jamie…. the fireworks scared her. She cried and clung to me well past her bedtime. My Mom ended up rocking her past midnight until the jerks in the area finally called it quits. Today she was afraid to take her nap and afraid to go to bed tonight… Jeff and I had to reassure her that there were no more fireworks tonight (she calls it funder). Unfortunately, there are still some people out there shooting them off… I just hope she stays asleep through it. I feel bad for her when things like this happen. She’s too young to understand what’s going on and I can’t exactly go out there and demand that people stop. Some of them would probably keep it up all the more if I did.
Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July!