Week 2: Jan.4-10

Cardio: 190 mins
Strength: 90 mins
Weight: 253
Loss this week: 3 lbs
Total weight loss: 7 lbs

This was an extraordinary week. On Monday my purse got stolen. That really set off the week with a bad tone and it was hard to keep focus. I was unable to stick to a strict diet but I'd like to think that even though I was eating bad I didn't really eat a lot of it. There was so much that I had to get done to set things in order I didn't take time to eat and so when I did eat it was fast food. I was still able to keep some frame of mind and when I ate out tried to get something that seemed healthier rather than the most tasty item on the menu. In the past I'd give in to temptation and get what I wanted rather than what was better for me. My cousin and I even fell upon a hippie vegetarian diner which was well interesting. I still think that when they put chicken on the menu they should list it as "chicken" because it certainly wasn't. Probably won't go back there strictly because it is much too weird to eat something that should be something else.

For my job I drive charter buses. This makes it especially hard to eat right because a lot of the time you just have to eat on the go. Yesterday my group took me out to Ruby River for lunch. It's a nice steak house here and I really wanted to order the steak and baked potato. Just thinking about it now makes my mouth water. I had cheated too many times on my diet this week however and decided to settle for the chicken. It was a thin slice of chicken but was loaded with cheese, drenched in honey mustard and garnished with bacon. DELICIOUS. My side was a salad and I took off as much of the grated cheese as possible to try and be a little bit good. It was actually a really good portion and I filled up on lemonade. Not the healthiest lunch but certainly not the worst. Needless to say, I didn't think that I would've lost any weight. I was very excited to see the 3 lb drop, so excited in fact that I had to weigh myself again to see if there wasn't something wrong with the scale. Think of how much I could be losing if I were to do better with my caloric intake!