A weekend of Excess (note the capital E) (long post)

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This is embarrassing to post, but if I am going to be held

accountable, I gotta do it.

So, this past weekend my husband and I relived our college days –

and my college days were not very familiar with the concept of Low

cal. My husband graduated from Univ of MO at Rolla and UMR has a

big St. Pat's celebration each year (supposedly the oldest student

St. Pat's celebration). Just to give you an idea, the school closes

on Thurs & Fri of St. Pats week there. The celebration is put on by

the St. Pats board and it takes a lot to make it through the whole 3

years of the St. Pats board but my husband did it and so every year

we go back and my husband along with the other St. Pats board alumni

paints the main street green for the parade.

Let me just say this – there is a lot of drinking involved.

(Disclaimer – we do this once a year, we are in a our mid 20's, no

kids, and we never drive)

So, on Friday – I was at work and stuck to the plan while at work

all day. That night for dinner however, we went out to a Mexican

restaurant and I got a taco salad with chicken, which could have

been decently healthy except for the fact I ate the fried shell. We

hung out at the fraternity house then went to the bar. I estimate

my alcohol intake that night to have been around 10 pints of beer.

Estimated calories according to FitDay – around 2800. Ouch.

Friday's calories were driven up by the beer but Saturday was ugly

too due to my poor food choices.

On Saturday, I got up early to watch hubby paint the streets and

then we went to Shoney's for breakfast. Now that I think about it,

I could have had the breakfast bar and stuck to the cereal, fresh

fruit, and salad, but instead I chose the chicken tenders with

fries. We then took a nice long afternoon nap and got up and went

back to the fraternity. I had maybe 4 beers on Saturday night.

Hubby and I went out for dinner to a pizza place and split a large

pizza. Another not good choice. Then I went home and had a

Gatorade.

Before I tell you the estimated calories, I'll use this for a

learning experience – I didn't enter in any caloric info in FitDay

until we got home yesterday. Before I looked up the information and

entered it in, I was thinking that Saturday wouldn't be too bad b/c

yeah, I ate like crap, but I really only ate twice. I was thinking

a max of 2000 cals. Wrong. I looked up the Shoney's meal I had –

it was 1000 calories. The ½ pizza was another 1000. Add on the

Gatorade and the other 4 beers, I am right back at 2800 cals again.

Yesterday on the way home, I thought I was being much better – we

ate at Applebee's and I got a chicken Caesar salad with the dressing

on the side but somehow yesterday I still wound up around 1700

calories, not bad, but I was thinking it was going to be a super low

cal day.

So, these are my confessions. On the one hand, this is a once a

year thing and we had a good time and I have been pretty strict with

myself up until now, but on the other hand, ouch!!! Two 2800

calorie days in a row???? If I had eaten healthier, Saturday

could've been much lower. And I took healthy food down there with

me to help myself stay on the diet. So, I am kind of kicking myself

right now. I was kicking myself a lot more yesterday after I

entered my food intake in though. There isn't much I can do about

it now but just stay as strict as possible with the diet.

Another thing is that I didn't work out Fri – Sun, which means I

missed a cardio work out and a LBWO. I got up early and went to the

gym this morning though to get in my LBWO and I did 20 mins of

cardio. I am going to go to the gym tonight too to do my UBWO and

some more cardio.

Normally I try to stay around 1600 cals but I think this week I am

going to try to keep my intake closer to 1400 cals a day.

So, have I doomed myself with my binge from hell? Not forever, but

for the course of this challenge? I am trying to convince myself

that I haven't.

But again, the only thing I can do is follow the program to a T for

the next 6 weeks.

Heidi