Today's Challenge - It's my cousin Paul's 50th surprise birthday and these type of parties are tough for me because I just want to pick and eat ALL DAY! This will be a challenge, but i'm up for it I think.
Exercise - went for a short morning run. 3 days in a row. I hope I can keep this up.
1.3 miles
13:40
Breakfast - 2 egg whites + 1 egg white + 2 slices of taylor ham - on a bagel thin - home made. Also a small glass of TROP 50 (no pulp) :-) This meal was not actually until about 12:45pm. Was running around all morning.
Snack - When we got there, there was chex mix and Philadelphia Pretzel Factory pretzels. they are so good! They are soft pretzel sticks. Throughout the day i picked at 4-5 handfuls of chex mix and 4-5 of the pretzels. Not great. DEFINITELY better than I would normally do.
Lunch - Below is my lunch. I had a rib, a meatball, a chicken leg, a small piece of sausage and a little pulled pork. I also had a piece of cinnamon bread because its AWESOME from this place they catered from. This may sound like a lot, but believe you me - I normally would fill up this plate twice as much, and then get a second plate of equal or greater value on the 2nd round. I also stayed away from putting any of these things on a roll :-)
Dinner - Throughout the day, I picked a little more and had 1 more piece of chicken, 2 little sausage parts and another rib. I'll call that my dinner.
Drinks - I drank water most of the day. I think I ended up having like 5 bottles + a diet soda or 2. Toward the end of the night, I played 2 games of beer pong with my cousin, so clearly I had to have a little beer there. Probably added up to about 1-2 beers when you figure I had 10 beer pong size beers. We also had 2 shots of fireball to celebrate Paul's birthday. Pretty good i'd say.
Joey V's "A-HA MOMENT" of the day:
We are having our sun room worked on right now and the guy had a red bull on the table. We ended up talking about how much I LOVE Red Bull and drink it every morning during work (when I'm failing dietarily, anyway.) I was saying how I haven't had many over the summer because I'm not working every day. But all the while, i was thinking about how I needed to go to CVS, and that is one of the places I usually get a Red Bull. I spent the next 30 minutes planning to reward myself for not drinking lots of Red Bull this summer but getting one when I went out. I started to walk out the door and realized that if I had a Red Bull right now, on only my 3rd day, I would have to write about it and then you would all think i was a moron. So I opened up the fridge and grabbed a freaking bottle of spring water instead. YUMMMMMMMMM . . . . . . . . . . .
Joey V's "A-HA MOMENT" #2:
We were driving down the Parkway when we passed the rest area by exit 131. Last time we drove by there, Kristyn informed me that it was the first time we ever drove down there togehter that I did not stop for a Red Bull :-) So as we drove by again, I of course got a little twitch in my neck and almost naturally turned on my blinker to pull over and into the rest stop, but I did not. I thought about it for awhile. "hmmmm, self. . . . . . If i got the Red Bull at CVS, would I still have stopped here to get a 2nd one?? yes, I think I would have. Muscle memory makes me get Red Bull when I pass there because my brain tells me I'm likely on a long car ride if I'm passing exit 131. So, that is TWO RED BULLS, AHH-AHH-AHH that I ignored today.
Joey V's "A-HA MOMENT" #3:
We were heading home for the evening and we got on the main road leading to 195 which leads to the parkway. Usually, it's been a long and fun day when I'm leaving Paul and Terri's place, so I hit the Quick Chek and grab a . . . . you know what . . . . . . Joey V's favorite Energy Drink. (I should really buy stock in this company!" This was an easy one to ignore. I was a little full from the day and I had gotten used to telling myself NO twice already today. But I got to thinkging again . . . . "hmmmmm, self . . . . . . if i got the one at CVS, and then at exit 131, would I still want to get one now??" As I drove past the store and thought about it, I decided that I'm not exactly sure whether or not by body would have wanted a 3rd one. I have only had 3 or more in one day about 3-4 times in my life and they were extremely tired times in my life - I may also say that it has been many years since that has happened. So I'll assume that I would not have let myself have 3 in a day, but who knows. . . . . . . . .
What I probably would have eaten if i was not trying at all:
Breakfast - no change, but I would have had a red bull at CVS and probably a Reese's Big Cup or 2, my favorite complement to a CVS bought Energy Drink.
Lunch -another plate of food and lots more pretzels
Dinner -probably would not have had room for more food, but I likely would have had some cake.
Evening -I would have been in a food coma by now and regretting everything I ate that day.
Snacking - I would have probably had about 5 beers if I was not trying to make better choices.
Spoiler alert - I went back up a pound today, but i'm confident it will be gone tomorrow.
Daily Wrap-up: I feel like I actually did quite well today, considering my track record. Was I successful by a general dieting standpoint - NO. Do you all think I overate? YES. Was I better and at least making SOME effort to be a normal human being and have a LITTLE willpower? YES.
See you tomorrow!
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