Day 4

I'm baaaaa-aaackk!!
I took my first day off yesterday (only two days in, I know). I've decided I can take a day off during the weekend because it leaves enough time to make up for my gorging before weigh-in on Friday. I enjoyed my day off contantly thinking about food. We went to pumpkin farm to welcome autumn (it was more like mourning the loss of summer to me). Check out my perfect pumpkin I found:

Today wasn't the best day. I found out one of our teammates forfieted the game this morning. But before that, it did actually start off well. Here's why: one of my co-workers complimented me and said I was looking "fit." She's a sweetheart, and it was from a distance, aaannd I was wearing my new dark brown dress pants. In any event, it was nice of her to say and it made me feel like I may actually be getting results from all this. It's sure a lot of effort, so to be complimented by someone who didn't even know I was doing the Game On challenge made my week get off to a fantastic start!

I stuck to my fully sanctioned meals all day and I walked some trails with a one of my teammates after work and before we headed to the school board meeting. I really like the commradery of this game. We had so much to talk about while we walked and I felt like I wasn't the only one going through this after walking with her. I stopped at my parents' house to say hi to my dad after we finished. I thought I could spice up my daily diet by raiding my mom's fridge for some healthy fat. I found black olives in a little snack bag. It was like she knew I was coming-- portioned for me in a snack baggie and everything! I went to eat them while chatting with my dad on the back porch and low and behold- MOLD growing inside of them! Good thing I didn't eat too many. However, if I do get sick, maybe I will lose my pound and a half for the week....?

I was introduced to the school board members as a new hire tonight, so I didn't make it home by 7:30. No old habit points for me today.  There's a neat Italian fresh market  on my way home, so I stopped there to buy some food for tomorrow (3rd trip to a food store since I started on Friday, I'm going broke). On the up side, I have all my meals planned and portioned for tomorrow. It does take a lot of time to to that, but it's worth it when you don't have to decide what to eat the next day (impulse eating= fast and cheap).
Here are some meals/snacks I've had recently:

 The new Yoplait blends taste awesome!! They are all natural, too!

This was called : "I'm about to go out to eat and I can't really put one more thing in my mouth today, so my next meal is going to be whatever I can find in the house" Not very exciting.

 This was my din-din :) Can you tell I went to the Italian market? Whole grain pasta, parmesean cheese, wilted spinach tossed in olive oil, and tomato sauce (my 100 calories of whatever for the day).

This will be my morning snack/2nd "meal" tomorrow (2% cottage cheese, peanuts, and  organic black grapes).

Time to finish my water and start getting ready for bed!