Weekends are as hard as I thought they might be.

I've never been good at having stable, predictable eating on weekends. Probably a big dinner on Friday night (either big or bad), then general grazing the next 2 days. This weekend, I knew I was in for a challenge to even keep track of everything I would eat, let alone make good choices.

Let's first start with Friday.

Breakfast: cottage cheese and pineapple I've been eating each day
Lunch: turkey, cheese, thins sandwich I've been eating each day, 3 ounces of baked chicken tenders
Dinner: grilled salmon fillet (about 6 oz) and a half cup or so of jasmine rice, unsweetened iced tea
Snacks/Dessert: Movie popcorn (no butter), some candy (2 servings worth), fat free yogurt

Total points: 26

As you can see, i finally both hit my daily points, but ate some of my 35 weekly points, too.

Saturday eating:
Breakfast: Kashi go lean crunch peanut/chocolate bar
Lunch: peanut butter and strawberry preserves (1 Tbsp each) on a whole wheat sandwich thing, 2 quaker white cheddar corn grain cakes
Dinner: swordfish taco from Dorado's (about a 5" corn tortilla, 2 oz of swordfish, and a little sauce), and spicy fruit salad - about 1 cup of pineapple, cantaloupe, watermelon and jicama, sprinkled with chili powder), agua fresca - watermelon water.
Snacks/Dessert: special K italian herb crackers (i love these!) and a skinny cow low fat fudge bar

Total points: 20

It was a challenge fitting the right food around our weekend plans. We went to an early movie on Friday night, and I knew I had enough weekly points that I could eat some popcorn and have some candy. Had a sensible-ish dinner afterwards, but quite frankly, I was probably able to leave most of the superyummy jasmine rice (which is probably about 6 points a half cup or something, likely 12 - 18 points on my plate of rice alone), if i hadn't had the snacks at the movie, probably about 6 points in total.

Saturday, we did 10 miles on the bicycle path (on bicycles, obviously) and that really felt good, and I did well on that. I don't always. Then, we usually stop at a coffee/baked goods place at the end of the ride, where I'd normally have an iced mocha, maybe some of whatever Robert gets as a snack. This time, I just got unsweetened iced tea, and I didn't really feel like I was missing anything.

Sunday was a similarly unstructured day. Had breakfast, but I knew that Robert and a friend and I would be having a late lunch out, maybe at 3 or so, so i had to pace my snacks just to stay out of hunger's way, but save the points for later in the day. I did okay (points tomorrow), but even as I type this, I know I have 4 more hours of awake time, and 5.5 points for the day left. I think I'll be fine!

All in all, though, it wasn't so terrible a weekend to start this whole thing. My weekends up north in our weekend place (which we go to 2 or 3 weekends a month) have a lot more structure, so I actually think I'll do better next week... though I do need to find out how many points a pint of Tuckerman's Ale is before I go. :-)

Most importantly, tomorrow is weigh-in day! I have a sense that I must have lost SOMETHING, but I don't have grand expectations. Even -1 is better than 0 or +anything... Wish me luck, and stay tuned!

Thanks for reading!