great week.  not so good weekend.

Move it Monday.  So...all week I ate small meals, five a day, exercised each morning, walked in the evening, went up the stairs with my squishy booty instead of asking my kids to for me, and it was working!  By Thursday I was down another 4 pounds!  yay, right?

Well, then Thursday night I found Noodles and Co. on the internet.  If you haven't eaten there find one and go now...just get a small!  Mike and I then and there knew where we were going for our Friday night date.  I was so excited.  We had put Noodles and Co. in our GPS a number of times hoping to find it only to discover that the closest one was about 90 miles away.  Bummer.  Now!  We are so happy to find out there is one just 20 miles away. 

So all day Friday i was looking forward to Noodles and Co. ...so much so that my day got all out of order and I didn't eat my 4 small meals through out the day (okay, maybe it wasn't just me dreaming out my dinner at Noodles and Co...maybe I just had a hectic day...) so by the time we arrive at Noodles and Co. you would think I haven't eaten in a week.  I order the regular Japanese Pan Noodles and some potstickers (both of these dishes are way too good).  For a little bit of exercise (I did say LITTLE) we went miniature golfing and the batting cages (very fun!).  Since we'd worked up quite the appetite from that we went to Krispy Kreme for 2 donuts.  Well...the weekend just went downhill from there.

And now, all of my discipline and hard won weight loss from all week has been brought down to 2 pounds of loss.  I know, I should be grateful I didn't put back on all of my weight with that food this weekend.  But really, I'm just bummed that it was so easy to fall back into old habits.  i'm really wanting to make some permanent and lasting changes here.

So...I've realized that I need to stop getting to the end of the week and thinking, Hey, I've done such a good job a little of this and a little of that is well deserved.  Because really, what I deserve is to feel great.  And I felt a lot better when I wasn't eating a bunch of crappy food.  Seriously, I drank some sprite, a hot dog, and a few chips on Saturday night (I am not a pop person but couldn't find any water around) and the next morning I woke up with completely swollen hands from all of the sodium in what I'd had the night before.  I could barely bend my fingers.  Crazy.

So really, when the weekend arrives I'll feel better if I just stick to what is making me feel good.  It also makes exercising on Monday a lot easier.  It was much harder to run today than it's been so far...I think it has to do with what I ate!  Eating junkn is not a gift or a well deserved whatever...it makes you feel miserable at some point...and it makes those two steps forward that you took during the week end up being one step back.  That's no fun.

So here's to a great week...and an even better weekend.

How did you do?

good. LIFE.