March Madness: Impromptu Trip Home…Impromptu Roadblock?: A Plan on the Fly
I randomly decided it was a good idea to go home and visit the family because I hadn’t seen them in awhile and didn’t really have any solid plans with my friends this weekend. Being spontaneous doesn’t mean I have to go off program…right??? Life happens, and I should be able to eat well AND hang with my folks. Yeah that all sounds good in principle and theory, but the practice part is where it gets difficult.
This is the second time I have seen my folks since I started WW. First time around was Xmas, and I wasn’t up to double-digit weight loss yet (so it wasnt noticable in the same way it is now), but I was making a point to go to the gym during my stay and was eating well. I had a whole plan worked about before coming home for Xmas to ensure my success.
This time around I didn’t come armed with a plan. I did, however, run outside for the first time in 2008 today (there is considerably less snow here than where I live) and I made dinner for everyone today which was both delicious and healthy. These were both probably awesome things to do. What I should have done (at some point) was to mentally prepare for the food pushing. In the intervening time (between morning run and dinner) there was a full-on SHIT TON of food pushing. (Like, holy fuck back off people.) And, they give me these bambi faces whenever I say no like it pains them when I do not snack or something. We all know I am trying to lose weight so cool it! AHHH!
I am currently trying to strategize for tomorrow. It’s difficult to plan without structure. I know we are going out to eat somewhere and I have points to allow for that. But, we are eating at a stupid time (mid-afternoon) which there is nothing I can do about and we are probably going to go to a wing place despite all my efforts trying to get us to go somewhere with choices that aren’t deep fried chicken wings and or beer. So, I know I am probably going to be stuck eating at a stupid time in a place with relatively few healthy choices. Great. This spontaneous trip home thing is putting a damper on my March Madness efforts. ugh.
Here is my strategy for tomorrow: run in the morning, followed by a light, healthy breakfast. Eat veggies or yogurt or something in that vein a bit before we go out for stupid-time-lunch so I am not starving when we get to the wing shack. If we do go to the wing place (and I still intend to try to change that) I will order a salad or some sort of veggie tray and stick to a numeric limit wing-wise. Not sure what to do dinner-wise because we will be eating lateish in the afternoon.
The fam messed up my eating schedule today, too.
Must….prioritize….self….and….health….to…succeed.
Any tips?
(I can’t do the just blow all your points on one meal thing becaue I am here till Tuesday…)
March 16, 2008 at 6:57 am
It’s like we’re living the same life but on different sides of the country!
I had my whole weekend all planned out, food and post-hockey beer included. And then I got a phone call to go out with a could be b-friend for dinner at his friend’s house. Dinner? Chinese. Drinks? Non-light beer. Awesome! And, since I had to do some errand running later in the morning because my power was out until noon, the whole eating timeline was screwed up which means I didn’t drink one drop of water. And no, beer does not count! So what now? Nothing. Back on the plan tomorrow. For you? Do the best you can until you get home to reality.
You’re right, life still happens. It’s how we choose to deal with it that counts.
Incidentally, I find that when you are slimmer, people are WORSE with the food pushing. These friends of the potential suitor had never met me, didn’t know that I used to be 70 pounds heavier. They met me at the normal size that I am now. They don’t know that I run every night and that I watch calories and weigh food and schedule treats and get on the scale every morning. So that makes it weirder to say ‘no thank you’ to seconds because they don’t KNOW that I am watching what I eat so they don’t understand why I wouldn’t want to have more sweet and sour pork that I LOVE!!!!! Because to them I am just a normal person. To me? I am a normal person now because of how hard I work and because I watch what I’m eating. There has to be a better way to say ‘no thank you’ without looking like you’re bulemic or anorexic and without having to say “No thank you, I would still like these jeans to fit”.
March 16, 2008 at 8:47 pm
We’re like N’sync. But with better dance moves and hair. And are girls.
UGH. Forserious. When I do say no because it’a my family they just put stuff in front of me anyways, and then look utlra-bambi-to-the-max when I still say I don’t want it. NO I am not anorexic or out to make you feel bad about your food choices, but I have been working hard and don’t feel like gaining another 5 lbs in one week just so you back the shit off. Ahh!