Jumped From The Horse

Some people fall off the horse when it comes to 'dieting'/ eating properly. I didn't fall off, I jumped off knowingly. I am not proud of it, but I do feel better about myself knowing that I planned it and it just didn't 'happen' to me.

Last Thursday I drove out of state to go pick up my daughter. She had Fall Weekend, which was really just having Friday off in addition to the regular weekend. Since she had not been home since she left in August, I thought it would be nice for everyone if she came home. She of course LOVED IT! We ALL loved having her back home.She loved sleeping in her own bed and just being home with us. We also kept our family tradition of Annual Pumpkin Picking at Huber's!

While I did eat off plan, I could have made much worse choices than I did. I think the movie popcorn was the worst, well that and Olive Garden! Thursday while driving 12 hours on the road; there and back...I munched on almonds. Lunch was a bunless dbl cheeseburger while zooming down the highway. Dinner was steak, broccoli and salad with bleu cheese dressing. Friday lunch was salad with chicken, dinner was a Mexican place. I had an ounce or 2 of tortilla chips. Dinner was mix fajitas, no rice, no beans and no tortillas. Just meat and lettuce, guac, sour cream and pico. At the movies, POPCORN! Olive Garden, was salad and rustic sausage, peppers and penne. Damn penne!  :) We dined out A LOT. Mainly due to the fact we were out all the time and that since she's been eating cafeteria food we allowed her to choose whatever food she wanted while she was home. I felt guilty that she had no home cooking, but she told me that she would take FULL advantage of home cooking when she comes home for Thanksgiving! Which of course made me smile. I love that my family enjoys my cooking!

By the time we had brought her back to the dorm at school and drove back home...this little fiasco had me gain 6 pounds. Talk about carb overload!!!  It's been a week since I left to go pick her up and I have lost all but 2 pounds of the 6 I gained. I am hoping that tomorrow I will be a pound less, of course 2 would be ideal!