Labor Day Gameplan

So I am all sorts of jazzed this morning thanks to this:

A lovely pumpkin iced coffee and donut from DD, The best start to a cooler morning.

I know I've posted about how much I love summer, but in reality, it isn't my favorite season.




Fall, is my favorite :-) There are just so many good things going on!
-PUMPKIN FLAVORED ANYTHING (coffee, food, beer, pie, did I mention beer?)
-Fall jackets (which I need a new one of)
-Boots (which are my favorite thing ever), tights,  fall dresses, sweaters
-Leaves changing (the thing I missed the most about being abroad fall 07, was missing fall in new england)

-Apple Cider
-brisk mornings
-no humidity!









-October baseball

-my birthday
-Halloween
-NH brewfest

I could go on. But I'll contain my excitement for now. I love summer, I love the feeling you get when it starts to become warmer, and the snow is a distant memory. But towards the end, I am ready to move on to fall. I hate when fall ends, I hate snow and winter, but I love the fall :-)

So a pumpkin iced coffee seems like an appropriate way to start off labor day weekend, especially where I lost .8 today! I figured I would treat myself to breakfast, As a bonus :-)

I was honestly pretty satisfied with just the donut. I was going to have my usual as well, but didn't feel like I needed it. I think I will add on my yogurt and berries to lunch instead. Healthy filling, etc etc.

My Overall Schedule for the Weekend:
Friday:
If I get out of work early, head to the gym. If not, maybe sneak in a quick workout when you get home.
Last dinner with the sisters :-( Enjoy delish italian food within reason
Depending on game plan, hang out, maybe have 1-2 drinks

Saturday:
 Up bright and early to help little sister move into her dorm (so sad)
Make healthy meal choices, no indulging!
Come home, gym/run and then grill with M
Babysitting

Sunday
Hiking with Sister and M
Relax, make this with M, alongside some rice,
go out for a date night! Our game plan is to go to the Cambridge Brewing Company, Boston Beer Works , and finally the Rock Bottom. each move is about a 20 minute walk, so that should be great for us :-)

Monday
Move other sister into college
Make healthy choices, be incredibly lazy all day, possibly include a walk for Toby :-)

I think it sounds like a fabulous game plan! Happy Long Weekend everybody!

And Now, Our Bodies Are the Guilty Ones

First, Some Stats
This Week's WI: -2.6, 195.2

Week 1 Challenge
Goal 1(calories burnt)	3630/15800
Goal 2 (pounds lost)	2.6/10
Goal 3 (workout 4 days)	Sun, Mon, Wed, Thurs
Goal 4(limit indulgences)	Drank Friday, Tues, Dessert Sunday Thursday!

So My first full week on My Fitness Pal proved successful! Honestly, it may have been the newness of it, but I felt like I could be so honest and it was so much easier for me to estimate everything, the tracker has 10 times more options, and I really liked using it.

I was also not stressed out like I was getting on weight watchers. I double tracked over the weekend, and Sunday I was over my points by 8, but under my calorie limit by 100. Which isn't cool. But regardless I worked on making my menu balanced, and bringing a lot of the elements of weight watchers into MFP. And I think it worked!

My only issue is that the weeks don't correspond with my weigh in days. But that's only a slight issue, something I can work with! I am going to stick with this for now, and see where it leads me :-)

I don't really experience food guilt persay, as in I don't eat something and then think to myself "Ughh I hate my life why did I eat that". But with WW, I found a lot of the time I was regretting things at the end of the day, or being mad at my self for going over my dailies, even after my whole debacle when I realized that my results are BETTER when I go over my dailies!

I would just get so nervous when I would use up a chunk of points friday nights for drinks. I would feel uncomfortable. What if I binged, or wanted to splurge? What if I ate something and didn't realize the points? What if I was starving after a workout, and had a bigger than planned dinner?

Irrational thoughts man, but I can tell you something, it is a lot easier to see that you are over your calories by 300 for the day (In my mind I say to myself that is a Jillian Video, or half a workout!)than it is to see you used up 30 WP on booze. And I love drinking, it's not something I'm willing to give up long term. I've given up binge drinking, and getting wasted every weekend. But most Friday nights I love having a couple of glasses of wine, or a few beers. And 3-4 beers ends up being a point mess, to say the least.

So for now, I think this will work better, and make me feel less guilty at the end of the day. I am going to go over my calories sometimes, it's inevitable. But I can workout to make up for it, (Ex. I went over by 200 last Friday night, but I was under by 300 thanks to my workout on Sunday, so I feel like that cancelled it out.) There is less guilt because I'm not going into a bank of points like you are with WW. It's so hard to find the happy medium, and I'm sure I'll have struggles with MFP, but for right now, my stress level is down, and I'm happy to have seen a loss :-)

This weekend should be a good time, tonight I am meeting a bunch of friends for good beer and drinks, I'm excited, it's been weeks since I've been out and about. Tomorrow M and co are going hiking, and then we are going to a good bye cookout for a friend's boyfriend. I may be babysitting afterwards, but well see.
And then Sunday, I am meeting my friend D in Newport for the day, which is by far the best part of the weekend :-) We haven't seen each other since last August, so it should be an awesome time together. I will be sure to recap on Monday!

and 10 points if you can name the play my title is from. And Go!