Journal - 7 September 2009

I crashed this weekend. I ate far more junk than I should have (although I ate well, too) — carrot cake and Dutch apple cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, nachos from the Athol Diner (if you haven't eaten in this little hole-in-the-wall diner in Athol, MA, stop in sometime; the food is good and plentiful, the staff friendly, the service fast and accurate, and the entire experience satisfactory). I did have an omelette rather than pancakes at Denny's (I love Denny's pancakes, so I felt very righteous with that), but I also ate all of the greasy home fried potatoes they gave me with the omelette. Probably would've done better eating the pancakes. Well, now I know.

I did lose my first pound last week — WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! And I'm now back on the straight and narrow. I had two Activias with FiberOne and oatmeal for breakfast and spinach salad and chicken with crumbled bleu cheese is on the menu for tonight's dinner. Lunch will probably be a peanut-butter-and-honey sandwich snatched when I finish writing this. Then out for a nice, long walk down by the river.

I went for my walk: 3800 steps. Not a record, by any stretch, but better than nothing. Dinner was a spinach salad with salmon (180 cal) and bleu cheese crumbled over it. Yummy!! And lemon-ginger tea to drink. Mint-chocolate-chip ice cream for an after-dinner snack. No wonder I'm losing only 1 lb/week at this point. Well, that's my goal and I'm sticking to it. It is hard, though, to count 1 lb as "progress." I'll count the 3,500 calories I burned without replacing last week as "progress."

The road is slow, but steady progress will get me to where I need to be. I know that; you know that. I do wish there was a magic bullet that takes all fat off immediately, but slow and steady wins the race. Would the premise in SLEEPER (remember the old Woody Allen movie?) were true....Ah well. It isn't.

'Til tomorrow....