We arrive here Thursday night and Friday
morning it seems like I started my diet downward spiral! I went out to breakfast on Friday
to cracker barrel and I decided I didn’t want coffee that morning; I wanted
sweet tea with lemon. I figured I was balancing what I would have used in sugar
with my coffee with the sugar in the sweet tea. I then ordered a low carb
breakfast with 3 eggs ever easy and a side of country ham. Well when my plate
came to table, it had a nice size serving of hash brown casserole. I LOVE hash
brown casserole. Something about potatoes, cheese and onions... yum! Well of
course I didn’t order it because I knew it wasn’t good for me but when it came
out on the plate, there was no way I had enough self control to not eat it!! So
I finished off my breakfast and was quite satisfied and ready to hit the beach.
A couple hours later, my parents get McDonalds and they brought me back my
weakness, nuggets. I didn’t ask them to bring it to me, but they knew I liked
them and were sweet enough to think to bring them to me. I ate every single one
of them and absolutely enjoyed them! I did drink water the rest of the
afternoon but once dinner came around... my diet was so far out the window that it was nearly to my sister-in-laws house in Colorado!!! We went to Nicholas’s
pizza and if you have ever been to Rehoboth beach, you KNOW what Nicholas’s
pizza is and what they are famous for... Nic-O-Boli's. Basically a pizza turn
over but about 100xs better! I get mine with no beef, light cheese, extra
sauce, sweet peppers and pepperoni. Holy cow, let me just tell you, these
things are amazing and there was no way I could go to Nicholas’s and not get
one. That just wouldn’t work for me! So I ate every last bite of my Nic-O-Boli
and I washed it down with a cherry coke. Shoot, I messed that diet day up
really bad!!!
Saturday... another bad day. I got
up, had a peanut butter granola bar and a glass of water. But for lunch, we had
cappriotti's. I had a small turkey sub with light mayo, lettuce, extra pickles,
salt, pepper and oregano. it was awesome and because I had only had a granola
bar for breakfast, I was so hungry that I devoured the entire sub instead of
saving half for later... oops... for dinner we had a cookout (my 2 aunts and
their husbands also have a place in the trailer park that my grandmothers/our
place is) with the whole family that is down here this weekend and had some of
the best steaks ever! T-bones with monerary seasoning. Yum! So I had a nice big
slab of T-bone steak and some potatoes.
Then there was today. And my oh my, I
ate terrible all day long! I am pretty mad at myself as I sit here and rethink of
all the nasty stuff that I put into my body today. No wonder my stomach is queasy!!
Let’s start from the beginning, woke up around 8, had a granola bar to offset
the hunger headache that I woke up with, then we went to surf bagel in Lewes. If
you have never eaten then, I HIGHLY recommend it. But be aware that they are a
busy busy bagel shop but very worth the wait. I normally get ham and cheese on
a plain bagel but this morning I got the ham and cheese on a whole wheat bagel.
Not much of a switch but I was trying! Yum yum yum. Those bagels are the high
light of my day whenever we get them. :-) We skipped lunch and traded that for
ice cream. Oops! It was beyond hot on the beach today and by the time we got
off the beach, we all wanted sundaes. I got a small vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles
(the inner child came out in me ha-ha) and I enjoyed every single bite. I
always seem to find that when I eat badly, I don’t think too much about it when
I am actually eating but about 10-15 minutes later, I feel so guilty and mad at
myself. If only I could remind myself of that guilt every time I get ready to
place an order! Ugh! For dinner we had left over’s. I had a hot dog -no bun. Some
grilled chicken and about 5 bites of potatoes. Dinner wouldn’t have been such a
bad way to end my night but then we started a camp fire... then the marshmallows
came out... and then the chocolate and graham crackers... S'MORES! I had 2!!! I
couldn’t just stop at 1?!?! No! I had to eat 2!!! What. Is. Wrong. With.
Me!??!?!?
Ya know, it’s one thing to diet at
home, but when you go away to the beach for the weekend, it is so incredibly
easy to slip on your diet. I have had so many failures this weekend but I’m not
giving up! And when I get up in the morning, it is a brand new day! A brand new
day where I can make smart food choices and better decisions. Yes, I am going
to have a few days of bad (really really really bad) eating, but I am not giving
up! I am keeping myself accountable on this blog and I am sharing my journey
with all of you so that maybe you can be encouraged or encourage me! The main
thing is, don’t give up. Don’t mess up and decide it’s not worth the fight. Don’t
have a bad couple of days and decide you can’t do it. You can lose the weight
if you want to!!! I have started so many diets because of a comment from
family, or my doctor tells me I need to lose weight, but this time, I’m doing
this for me! I am doing this hard, frustrating, annoying, and rewarding journey
because I decided I wanted to change! I wanted to make something different of my
life. I decided I wanted to get skinny so I can be healthy but I want to be the
fun aunt. I want to be the aunt that is right in the middle of the kids running
and playing. Not the aunt who is sitting on the sidelines!!! (Okay, I am done myself
motivational speech now!)
I'll update once I am home and have
an updated weigh in. I hope I haven’t gained all my weight back!!
One day at a time...
i never intend to stick to a diet while on vaca....like when we visit DE, I'm getting a LARGE cheesteak & pizza from Alpha's...and some pizza from cafe' di napoli in Kirkwood Plaza....mmmmmmmm.....that's the only reason i visit, lol :)
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