Almost there...

So spent last weekend up in CO with my pal and his family. Roadtrips are usually the bane of healthy eating for me, with a little planning ahead (and a trip to Sprouts), I was able to completely avoid cinnamon bears/chips/cheeseburger/soda/etc. And because CS has turned into a complete despot and has banned everyone in the household from ever tasting anything they enjoy ever again, it was a piece of cake to stay clean there, too (though the cupcakes that Gramita made smelled delicious all weekend). I even limited my beer intake to one (1!) on the whole weekend, though I had a total of 3 to give. Didn't even have one at the Rapids game on Sunday. Though we didn't get in anything resembling a workout either day, food-wise everything went pretty damned swimmingly...except. We stopped for eats on the way back from the game. Went for BBQ since good old American meat is totally legit according to the rules. Ordered my beef ribs and iced tea, but forgot to tell them not to put any sauce on them. And while I didn't add any extra sauce, it was there and I ate it, sugar and all. 

We've got about 4 days left of this little journey, and I can only shake my head when I think that my lone stumble on food for the entire freakin' show may turn out to have been a tablespoon or so of barbeque sauce on the last weekend.

FOODS:

All clean, all the time, less a smear of ketchup & molasses

EFFORTS:

Made WODs from M-F (went the extra day because I knew I'd be missing while on the road)

Vegas is in sight!

My poor family

As a result of me eating clean, or at least damn close to clean every day, by consequence my family is also eating clean.  It's not like I prepare a chicken dinner for me and a bowl of pasta for them.  On Taco Tuesdays when I have the taco salad, they of course get the shell and cheese, but for the most part they eat what I eat.  I'm killing them!  The little one is in the 20th percentile on her weight for her age as of her physical about two weeks ago.  The boy, he's getting slower in each of his Landshark running races.  I've got to blame it on the eats...my kids need more carbs, which means I should probably start eating more as well.

I think the biggest component to eating healthy is planning your meals.  When you plan them and prep for them, it's easy to eat healthy.  Not planning leads to "what's for dinner?"  which leads to Wendy's or something quick (which is hardly ever healthy).  Just saying.

As for this weekend?  We'll do fine.  A couple beers watching college games on Saturday and maybe a beer at the game on Sunday should be all we need.  We can also stick to eating lots of meat...always delicious. 

So when do we start our PP training?  Is that going to be our next challenge? A weekly total miles x weekly pounds lost - penalty points for exceeding ? calories - 12 points for every beer over 2 per week divided by number of chicks you dated in HS.

Probably should check myself before I wreck myself

So I've cooled off a bit since Monday's debacle. I remembered that I had my suspicions that the scale that did my baseline weigh-in on was a bit dodgy, even mentioned it once or twice in a couple of early posts. I never went back and entered a different number from another scale, which had suggested that my first number should probably have been about 10 pounds higher. Not asking for a modification this far into the game, just reassuring myself that there probably has been progress, just not as much as I'd hoped.

As for CS, however, you're killing it! Fifteen pounds in 4 weeks is no joke. That's fantastic! You're dropping more than a pound every two days, and you are beating yourself up over not working out enough?! Keep up the awesome work. I've got someone to live up to.

Things here have been steady. One more workout to get my 4th day straight. All clean food, but trying to mix in more veggie carbs. Partly because of some of the things CS was mentioning, partly because I could tell that my protein v carb balance is a bit out of whack. We'll see how I do going forward.

This weekend, however, is going to be a test. Road trip, good pals, and sporting events. CS is right, this is as good as anytime to kill the rest of beer ration (mmmm, chopp....).

Trick will be stopping there. And behaving with everything else, too.