Hello, all my dear WISH friends. I am sorry I have been so absent from here. THere is a big hole in my life where I have been missing my WISH Journal friends. Work was so crazy from basically mid-March until a hearing I had on April 2. Then I played catch up from 5:40 pm on 4/2 until I left my office on 4/5 at 3:30 to fly to Providence to visit my Aunt and Uncle who live near Cape Cod. The visit was wonderful except for food issues. Notwithstanding that my aunt is a lifetime WW member and my Uncle has lost over 35 pounds on WW, they considered my weekend with them to be a vacation and decided we should all "treat ourselves" to whatever food anyone wanted at anytime.
We did spend lots of time walking and talking but more, unfortunately, eating! I finally had a very candid talk with my aunt and uncle on Saturday about how much food they were pushing on me and the bad choices they were encouraging. Yes, I’m an adult, but it really isn’t fair to have someone you love pushing food at you all the time. My aunt walks many many miles every day and seems to be able to eat whatever she wants and I think they are both compulsive about food.
I do not exaggerate when I say that there was not a single hour of the visit that did not involve food. My aunt even apologized and said she worried I wouldn’t visit again because of the issue. That was such a hard, but unexpected, aspect of the visit.
Here is what my weekend looked like:
Thursday – leave work 3:30; arrive Plymouth 9:00; eat pizza, french fries & onion rings
Friday – 6:30 a.m. walk to and from and on the beach (wicked cold; bundled but still not warm enough); shower; brunch at The BeeHive (clam chowder; salad; baked scrod, scallops & shrimp in butter) with sauteed zucchini & onion mix (in butter) & rice pilaf; gingerbread w/double whipped cream and homemade vanilla ice cream); walk along the canal & under the Sagamore Bridge; home to watch "Persuasion"; quick nap; more tv time together and sharing family news; help prepare some food items for Saturday and Sunday
Saturday – up for a 6:30 beach walk; breakfast at Panera (whole grain bagel w/RF hazelnut cream cheese); home to meet cousins; travel to the Lobster Hut for lunch (broiled salmon; french fries; shared calamari appetizer); travel to mall; movies with my aunt (movie popcorn - yum!); home for dinner (ham, three bean salad; cousin Anne Marie’s carrot cake); up talking until nearly 1 am
Sunday – up at 7 for church (20 minute walk each direction); home for breakfast (leftover ham w/provolone on english muffin; apple); more family arrives; early dinner (prime rib; green beans; broccoli; mashed sweet potatoes; yorkshire pudding; more carrot cake; some SF FF butterscotch pudding); sad goodbyes; leave for airport by 3:30. Ate cashews and grilled chicken from a yucky sandwich on the plane; Home by 9 pm, where I ate a lean cuisine panini.
The result of the last 3 weeks of chaos and excess is that by yesterday morning, I'd gained 3.7 pounds from when I got my 70 pound star, and I have been so unhappy about that. I can’t even imagine what I’d have gained if I hadn’t worked out the few times I did. As of yesterday, I had to lose 5.7 to get to my goal before I leave for my Minnie weekend. Fortunately, after a very disciplined day yesterday and lots of water and a very strenuous 60 minute workout last night, my weight was down by 2.3 this morning. putting me only 3.4 away from my goal for 5/1. I think it is do-able as long as I am very careful.
x-post from the Minnie thread:
keenercam said:
Yesterday's food was good:
B: lite english muffin w/1 slice fat free cheese; coffee w/half & half(they were out of skim milk at my coffee place)
L: Lean Cuisine chicken primavera; garden salad w/1 oz fat free feta & 1/2 serving fat free raspberry vinegarette dressing
D: 99% lean ground turkey (so excited I found this at trader joe's) mixed with onion & A-1 steak sauce; shrimp & broccoli stir fry (to get in my healthy oils)dessert: hostess mini 3 pack carrot cake
And here is my training (x-post):
I am glad to report I got some training in last night. 60 minutes on the TM. The first 30 was intervals of walk 3 at 4.0-4.2 mph then jog 2 minutes at 5.2 mph. I did 2.28 miles in 30 minutes (278 calories) -- pace 13:09!!!! Then I was going to quit but decided to do some incline work. OMG, incline work is NOT easy! I stayed mostly around 4 mph but increased the incline gradually from .5 - 5.0. I did 2.07 in 30 minutes (14:30 pace) and burned 270 calories.
Today's food:
B: coffee w/skim milk; lite english muffin w/1 slice fat free cheese
L: extra lean ground turkey w/onion, corn & A-1; apple
snack: apple
D: stir fry shrimp & broccoli w/EVOO
I hope to be around here a lot more in the coming weeks. I do so much better when I am with my friends!
What I really want to do is go home to bed!
and 
for your week ahead.... I hope once the workload lets up a bit, you have some time for rest and relaxation. Take care, Cam!
. Hopefully things have settled down now.
