A weekend to be proud of

Sunday evening is upon us and I have SO much to be proud of this weekend. I wanted to share these little victories with you all.

First, my workout Saturday was STELLAR. I am a rock star. I'm sorry, it's true. It's taken me a very, very long time to feel proud about the things I do. I finally do.

The workout was called "The Avenger". It was a strength/cardio circuit workout. Teams of 4, 2 on cardio section (like squat jacks, burpees, or mountain climbers) the other 2 would do strength (dead-lifts, exploding shoulder presses, push-up to plank row). 40 second interval, then the teams would switch. It was amazing.

I was on my gliding mountain climbers, which are just a bitch. Suddenly, my trainer, Christa was there next to me. She said "Do you remember when you couldn't even keep yourself up on these gliders? Now, look at you." I seriously wanted to cry. She was so right. I have come so. damn. far.

Today, I wore a bathing suit. This may not seem like much, but I was always the fat girl in the pants and tee shirts. If I ever went to a pool, it was in a pair of shorts (which was a nightmare to me) and a long tee-shirt. Not today. I put on my bathing suit (size large). I did not put on a tee shirt. I did not put on shorts. I walked with my family up to our condo pool, which was quite busy, and I went in the pool with my tribe. I didn't even care about the skin hanging from my arms. I was too proud of myself to give a shit.

Now on to food for the weekend. I have been VERY tempted all weekend, but especially today, to eat junk. It took a lot of work to stay on track. I did the grocery shopping today and I kept to my list and did not buy any junk.

I did a little breakfast makeover and it worked very nicely. I am going to see if I can do the same during the week when we are rushing around to get to work. We will see.

Here is what I had today. Yesterday was similar:

B: fruit smoothie (1/2 cup plain greek yogurt, 1 cup frozen berries, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder, blended)
S: 1/2 click shake, 2 polly o 2% cheese sticks
L: large veggie chopped salad with good seasons dressing, 30 grms oven roasted edamame.
D: 1 cup vegetarian chili (homemade) 1/2 sweet potato, roasted with zucchini, red pepper and onion. 2 tbs low sugar BBQ sauce on veggies.
S: still contemplating. Maybe a nice chilled bowl of strawberries.

Perfectly on calories. Sodium is way down.

You can see the Click shake is still there. This is because I KNOW myself, and if I take everything all out at once, I will end up binging on crap. Will keep the Click at 1/2 serving for now.

Going to give overnight oats a try tonight for tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes.

The scale in Saturday morning said I was up another pound. I really don't understand. But, it's not about understanding right now. It's about staying with what I KNOW is the right thing to do and the right way to eat. I know this is right. Whole foods. Real foods. Weighed and measured. The weight loss just HAS to follow.

So, there's the update from the weekend. Back to the grind tomorrow.