Back to Reality

I'm back to work today after 4 glorious days off.  Our shopping trip out of town was wonderful.  The mall that we went to was so huge that it took us 9 hours to go through the whole thing. We were so beat when we got back to the hotel that we just collapsed.  On our second day (the day we headed home) we stopped off at another mall on the way home and hit a couple of stores that we don't have in our area. 

So, did I buy anything good?  I had a good reality check of how much weight I still have to lose, so even though I feel good about having lost 22 pounds, I still have trouble finding nice clothes that fit me. Maybe I'm too picky but why don't they make cute, plus size clothes?  The stuff that I always come across is either ass-ugly or frumpy/matronly. I'm not going to pay good money to buy/wear clothes that I don't even like.  It would never fail that I would walk into a store thinking that it might be a good place for me to find clothes and low and behold, as soon as you enter the plus size section the styles go from cute to frumpy and it's like a slap in the face. I'm still in a size 18, although they're getting loser, I'm not ready to go down a size yet.  I think I will continue to have this problem (ugly clothes) until I get to about a size 14.  Meanwhile, I have to put up with stuff that I don't like. More incentive to lose weight/keep going.  So, I managed to find a pair of capris, 3 shirts, jewelry and perfume.  If all else fails, buy assessories, right?  My daughter, on the other hand, who is a size 6 bought a new summer wardrobe.  I was happy for her.  I also bought some Yankee Candles and some other oddball stuff.

So, how'd I do with eating?  In short, so-so.  I gained 1.8.  I'm hoping that alot of it is sodium and will come off quickly.  The first night we were so tired from shopping and being on our feet for 9 hours that we didn't feel like going out for dinner so we went to a grocery store, took some stuff back to the hotel and had a picnic. We got cheese, fruit, olives, ham, hummus and pita chips (I know about the chips, I only had a few, could have been worse, could have been better.) The bad thing is that we ate so late that we went to bed immediately after that.  To bed on a full stomach = not good for weight loss.

The next morning the hotel had free breakfast buffet.  I got a cheese omlette, 2 pieces of bacon, coffee. Not too bad.

No lunch.

For dinner we went to Longhorn Steakhouse.  Here's where the sodium comes in.  I ordered a mixed greens salad that had blue cheese crumbles and grilled-medium pepper-crusted sirloin.  I did use a little blue cheese dressing, but not much.  Between the juicy steak and the blue cheese crumbles I didn't need much.  The cheese and steak were salty but extremely delicious.  I had blackberry iced tea to drink that was lightly sweet. No bread or dessert.

I did have two (not on the same day) LF frozen hazlenut lattes minus the whipped cream, made with 2% milk.  Delicious.

So, there it is. Could have been better, could have been a hellova lot worse.  I feel I did reasonably well and I didn't feel deprived and I had a wonderful time creating memories with my daughter.  I'm so grateful that we have such a wonderful relationship, especially when I hear/see other people's disfunctional relationships with their children.  Now I have to face the music and get the 1.8 back off. I'm okay with it.

Onward and downward!  I was busy playing catch-up at work today.  Tomorrow I play on catching up on everyone's blogs.