Monday May 15th 2006

Welcome to Monday Morning! I weighed in today at 227.5lbs.

I had some interesting opportunities this weekend! Went to a dinner theatre on Saturday night - had Turkey dinner (skipped the bun and stuffing and pie!). Afterwards we went to the cast party as our friend Dan was in the play. Here they had every goodie known to man kind - chocolate, brownies, chips, dip, pasta, sandwiches, candy etc.. And every second person asked me to try something - and I kept saying "no". It got to the point were a couple of people were actually a bit annoyed that I kept saying "no" - (not really annoyed, but getting pushy). I finally said "I can't have sugar" - figuring that they would stop if they thought they were killing off a diabetic or something. Food is such a social thing - saying no gets difficult and is hard to do when you hear over and over again "you just got to try this, it's amazing - only one bite, that won't hurt you , come on, try it, you'll love it!"

My next Opportunity was yesterday at Lunch - they choose Mexicali Rosa's (Mexican) for lunch. Do you know how hard it is to stay away from "bread/flour" products in a Mexican restaurant?? There was only ONE dish that didn't have a bread product and that was a lime chicken - still came with rice - but not bread. I could not find anything without rice, white starch or flour on the menu - even the salads came in either a bread bowl or taco bowl. The deadly thing about salads is the dressing - a ceasar salad dressing can have 700 calories in it! Have to be very careful about ordering salads out.

Again this blog helped me keep on track - knowing that I was discussing here openly the challenges of the weekend helped me to say "no" at the party and pick the lime chicken and not eat the flour products at the restaurant.

Namaste

B.