Day Sixty-Five: Great Fun Weekend, Bad Monday

This weekend, we had some awesome friends in town, and the weekend was full of people, chaos, eating, hanging out, drinking, and uttery laid back frivolity. I would not trade weekends like this for anything--they are so rare and so valuable, and we miss our friends so much. It was worth spending every minute of our time with them focussed on them and our neighbors and celebrating our town and our village so much! But...it doesn't exactly make for a weekend chock of healthy eating and exercise! So, I wasn't great, that's for sure, but it's also worth mentioning that it could have been quite a lot worse. I had a few cheats on the food (carbs!), and on the alcohol, too. I guess I just need to be extra good this week to make up for it. I feel like I say that more than I should. Witness that I haven't written anything in days.

Today was...well, it was not a good day. My kid is doing his best to derail the whole dynamic of our family. These kinds of days (and thank goodness they are rare) are the kind where there's a huge temptation to eat ice cream and crawl into bed. However, my only indulgence was a little slice of homemade lemon cake. And while I didn't get as much exercise as I wanted to, I did take a walk and eat decently for the rest of the day. Again--it's worth celebrating the small victories. Tonight, I'm going to bed early so I can make it up on time in the morning.

Log:

Exercise:

• Lunchtime walk: 1.6 miles 

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: scrambled eggs with cheese, a small honeycrisp apple, and tea with 2% milk and raw sugar
• Lunch: a big salad with honey mustard dressing and two grilled chicken thighs
• Dinner: a small pile of BBQ and some leftover homemade cole slaw
• Snacks: a little slice of homemade lemon cake

Stats:

• Steps: 8500
• Calories: 1233 consumed, 207 burned
• Weight: forgot to weigh this morning