Oh dear. Shirking my responsibilities to blog every day. No bueno.
However, due to it being the last 2 weeks of the semester (where the hell did it all go?), and having lots of work to do, I'm amending my daily blogs to a "whenever I have the time to breathe." Doesn't mean I'm not going to keep up with my good habits, just means my blogs will be a little more informative on progress, and a little less about daily food updates. Starting with this weekend:
Friday happened, all was pretty good. I thought I would have been getting hammered with my roommate (oh god, I drink, SIN), but we actually just had one drink and spent the night being total nerds together. It was kinda fantastic, and relatively guilt free. Didn't have to spend the next morning feeling guilty over empty calories. :)
Saturday was pretty uneventful, but nice. Made Chicken Tetrazzini from this awesome cookbook I have . . . dear lord, it was amazing. And one serving was like, 250 calories. Now, normally, when they say one serving, you're looking at like, oh, I don't know, a half cup? No man, this was a nice BIG bowl full. We had that and a salad. It was nomtastic.
The grandparents came to visit that night too. They're here for a week, and generally, along with them, they bring dinners out, and lots of eating out. As proven by Sunday morning.
Sunday was my mom's birthday, and she had wanted to go to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate. I was okay with this, but since it was the day after my grandparents got there, they wanted to go out to breakfast. After everyone went to bed, my roommate brought up a very good point: We were going out twice. In one day. How many flippin' calories is that?
Needless to say, I wasn't about to go to breakfast and not go to Cheesecake Factory, so I stayed home and played Dance Central while they were off doing their thing. And can I just say, ow? I mean, I love that kind of stuff. Dancing games? Jebus, when I had a DDR mat that worked well, that was my exercise. Preeeeetty much. Dance Central even has a workout mode, which I was really happy about. I spent, between the parts where they actually teach you the moves and the actual dance routines themselves, about 2 hours playing that game. I am SO sore right now. I have muscles I didn't even know existed.
After that, we did our thing, went to the Cheesecake Factory, and I pretty much died.
My roommate and I did a thing I was actually proud of. We each got a side salad to start, then we split a dinner, and then we got our own pieces of Cheesecake. I didn't finish my cheesecake, because I was just so full, but I did bring it home with me. After I play Dance Central again tonight, I'm gonna indulge a bit. Hence the reason why my lunch is raw cauliflower, carrots, celery, a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese, and apple, and a few pretzel sticks.
In all seriousness though, I'm so glad we did it that way. I was ready to walk out of there feeling so guilty, even before I stepped in the door. Afterwards though, I didn't feel quite so bad. That plate that Cara and I split was monstrous. I can't believe they actually sell that as a one person meal. It was 2 chicken cutlets with bacon and a mound of arugula served over this delicious basil pasta with just the slightest bit of a cream sauce. Not the healthiest thing, I know, but you know what? If I'm paying to go out to dinner, I'm going to indulge. Sorry. Otherwise, I'll just go home and make myself a nice low calorie meal. And, I didn't even finish my cheesecake.
I still felt a little pig-like when I got home, but I dealt with that, and now everything is good.
OH. AAAAND I got my yoga ball blown up. Bounced around on that sucker for a little while yesterday too. Soooo excited to start using it more. All around, it was a pretty good weekend. I just hope I can keep it up all week long. :)
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