Weigh-In Update: So while I am not disclosing the actual weight at this point, I will say that this morning was the lowest I have been in quite awhile. I cracked past a certain key number this morning and that is a total is 12 pounds down from my max, 7.5 down since New Year's Day. I'll take that!
Breakfast: So today, I got up a little earlier and somehow, I still ended up in a rush to get out! So I stopped at Griddle This for my buttered bagel. That being said, Ryan Krewer yelled at my on Facebook yesterday for drinking soda for breakfast. So I promised him I would not have a soda for breakfast at least for the next 3 days. SOOOOOOOOOO, this morning, I had a black cherry seltzer with my bagel. Thanks, Krewer! That one's for you.
Lunch: Stuck around work for a little bit into the afternoon and got home for PM stuff around 1:30pm to work there for the rest of the day. Had my choice of leftovers to choose from. I chose the General Tso's Cauliflower with chicken and baby corn. This reheated very nicely! What a nice lunch. Of course, I also grabbed a small handful of mini M&Ms.
Things were going seemingly quite well today. But then, things took a real turn for the worse. And I'm really quite embarrassed about my report for the rest of the night, so I don't actually need anyone to yell at me for this. Trust me, I've been beating myself up about this all day today - the day after - as I've avoided writing this post.
Everything up to this post was typed Friday afternoon around 2pm. The rest is written on Saturday night:
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The rest of the day: So around 3:30, I went to pick up the kids. Giuliana is in Bergenfield, so I drove down Washington Ave. This is where I came across Burger King. So I had a craving for an original chicken sandwich. I went and ordered it. I noticed out of the corner of my eye, the sandwich was $5.00. As I was coming around the side, also out of the corner of my eye, I saw "2 for $5" And I asked the cashier - is there some sort of 2 for $5 deal? He said yes. I said "So you mean I could get a 2nd sandwich and it would be free?" And they said yes. So I went for it. This was a very bad idea. 1 was bad enough, but not ridiculous. Just a bad choice. 2 - that was just plain stupid. I threw them both down the ol' belly in about 5 minutes flat. It didn't even feel good around the halfway point of the 2nd sandwich. At that point, I was just finishing it to finish it. These are the moments where I truly feel like I have some issue with food because I knew I should not do it, but instead of stopping, I just binge it as fast as possible. I kinda could not stop myself. Luckily, I'm able to control these urges most of the time, but this time - I just went for it, and I felt the wrath of it.
Now, it did not stop there. I don't feel bad about the rest of the night. I would be just fine with the next part, had the 3:30 issue not occurred. I had plans with my long time friend from all the way back in little league to meet at the Cornerstone and watch the Nets game. Now I have not been out for good authentic greasy bar food in a really long time, so I knew what I was getting myself into and I was intending on enjoying myself a little bit.
I started off with an Ommegang IPA and it was terrible. I'm pretty sure it was old and from the bottom of the keg. I was really disappointed. I know I like this beer - I've had it before, but I guess it was just bad luck for the night. Ended up with a Bud Lite bottle later in the night and that was it on the drink front. I ordered some wings for an app and chicken fingers and waffle fries for dinner. The wings were pretty decent. They were quite small, actually, in my opinion. Then the chicken fingers came. They were HUGE. And they gave a massive serving of waffle fries. After 1 chicken finger and 4-5 fries, I was hurting. I ended up forcing 1 more chicken finger down and another fry or 2, but that was it. Those chicken sandwiches were doing their damage now. The good news - I didn't finish the bar food. The bad news - I could have just skipped the damn sandwiches at 3:30 and enjoyed my night out more.
So in the end - I was on my way to a great day. Something snapped at 3:30 and turned it into one of my worst days in a long time. I'm ashamed of the BK move. I'm not ashamed of the Cornerstone. that only was terrible because I failed at the pre-Cornerstone situation. The day could have just been a good day with a planned dinner indulgence. Instead, it was the biggest food-induced stomach ache I've had in a long time. I will try not to beat myself up about this much longer. Hard to handle as the start to a weekend that includes my son's 4th birthday and the Super Bowl.
Spoiler alert - Joey's birthday party (Saturday) is already over as I write up the rest of Friday's post. It was not exactly a great day of eating, BUT it was not a disaster. More on that in my next post.
Not posting pics today. Not in the mood. I feel like putting the pics is something I do to make this a little more fun. I'm not in a fun mood about this post, so instead, I'm just leaving it as a confession post.
Oh by the way, I was up 3 pounds Saturday morning when I woke up.
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