Day 12 & 13-Saturday and Sunday

This weekend was an epic fail on sooooooooo many levels. I'll try and stick to the food ones. I knew Saturday was going to be a Nutrisystem fail day. I was going to be out of the house from 7-6pm...and without access to a bathroom or kitchen. I was participating in an outdoor handcrafted market so I couldn't just walk away from my space with no one there to help me out. I did try and plan. I had meant to eat an egg before leaving, but as is par for course with me the idea of eating that early just makes me sick. I could barely look at an egg. I did pack a Nutrisystem Sweetened O's cereal pouch and a 100 calorie pack of dried Cranberries, figuring I could nibble on them all day (this is usally my vendor market snack, dried cereal and dried fruit). Thanks to Mother Nature my day went belly up....and so did my display. I spent the majority of my day holding down my tent and fixing my displays, so I only had a wee little bit of the fruit and cereal. I had to be rescued from my sale (special shout out to the little bro and the uncle pat for rescuing me and my wares from the wind). My initial plan for the day was to have my nibbles at the sale and then go to the cafe up the street and have my salad with grilled chicken and treat myself to a glass of wine, seeing as how I had the calories to spare. Well, after my most frustrating day ever I drank almost half a bottle of Savignon Blanc at the uncle's. Ooops and oh well...if you went through what I went through you'd have drank the whole thing! I did also have a banana, if that counts for anything. I was going to go and get my salad, but once I sat on my couch I was content not to do much more. I kind of grazed for the evening (a habit I am trying to break). I started by having the nutrisystem dessert I had set out for Saturday (I purposely picked the cereal, and swapped some things around so that the lunch was a pasta container I wasn't thrilled with and could skip and dinner was that nasty sweet and sour chicken that I was happy to skip). I had the Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies with a little skim milk. These were quite good and they were little mini cookies. I think there were about 8-10 in the bag. Later, I nibbled on some peanuts and an apple and eventually when I started nodding off at 9pm from being up earlier than usual, having had so much wine and not so much food I toasted up a bagel thin and had it with some Weight Watchers cream cheese and sugar free preserves. No I didn't measure my portions. The wine alone helped bring this days calorie count up to where it should have been. But it certainly was not one of my best days.

Sunday should have worked out well, but I made a mess of it by staying in bed late since I fell asleep early and then woke up in the middle of the night for a few hours. I got up entirely too late to have breakfast, and I had to call the moms for Mother's Day. By the time I got off the phone with her it was lunch time, I wasn't hungry and I had a lot of work to do to fix the mess that happened with all my wares on Saturday (I'm still working on it this Monday afternoon. taking a break to write this). I just started plowing through the things I had to do (you know, when you HAVE to finish something before you can even contemplate something else? that was my mindset and it applied to food). When I did get hungry I had come across what was left of my Nutrisystem Sweetened O's. I figured, what the hey and had them with skim milk. They were better than the Whole Grain O's I had before, but still fall short of the Cheerios taste. I could still eat these though.
When I was peckish again, rather than have the quick little lunch I had laid out I wound up eating some reduced fat feta cheese and a few pieces of turkey pepperoni. Well, I did have a dairy and a protein serving that I missed twice (the milk for the cereal doesn't count).
I had decided to treat the DH to dinner, so we went to the cafe around the corner. We shared some guacamole and fresh salsa (and I limited myself to a few tortilla chips and ate the yums with my fork. My dinner selection was an experiment. I never had it before. It was a nice piece of tilapia and a few new zealand mussels (the huge kind) smothered in a tomato sauce. I tried not to eat up all of the sauce. I could have been a little better but I did better than I would have if I wasn't on Nutrisystem. And, ok, I'll cop to it...I had some wine too. But I had no dessert, not even the Nutrisystem kind. I tried to balance it all out. Let's just hope all of this wine doesn't futz with where my scale has been.
Now, to get back on track.