For the past few weeks, I've been able to start working at the gym again behind the front desk doing various busy work and making phone calls. While it's no Zumba class, it's been a lot of fun getting to see another side of my second home and to meet some more of the staff! But this week I got lucky. Rather than spend my Friday afternoon calling people I don't know (which gives me major anxiety), I got to go in at 6am on Saturday and help run the staff mini-triathlon! I was in charge of tracking their bike split up in the spin room and while it was absolutely madness (which caused me to break a major sweat from weaving in and out of 30 bikes with my stupid boot on)..it was a total blast.
After everyone was finished, there was breakfast in the party room. And they had my very favorite bagels in the whole world. Einstein bros cinnamon sugar.....with shmear. My heart sank when I walked in. Bagels are definitely not low carb and they are definitely not on my meal plan for this week. But after 4 successful days (and several pounds lost already) I was NOT going to cave for a bagel that I can always get in a few months. So I sat there...and socialized...and said "no thank you" several times...and I SURVIVED IT haha. I know this sounds simple and stupid, but when you've had no control for almost 3 years straight (or at least it felt that way to me)...this was a huge deal.
Someone up there knew I needed the will power and helped my 5:30am protein shake last me until lunch. And I'm grateful for that.
For lunch I had planned a "salad w/grilled chicken". I kept it vague on purpose so I could be a bit flexible with where I got it and what I put on it. Since after the mini-tri I had to go and sit at Emma's gymnastics club for 2 hours while she did team photos...I was pretty hungry by the time we left at 11. She asked if we could go to Subway. My first instinct was to say no, but then I remembered that you can make any sandwich into a salad! SO I DID! And I was converted. For only 200 calories I got to have my favorite sweet onion chicken teriyaki in a salad. It was HUGE...with spinach and lettuce mixed, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, chicken and just a bit of the sweet onion sauce. I only ate half of it and it was sooooo delicious. I will definitely be making this a regular so that I don't feel so deprived without the bread.
We had planned to be out and about with the kids around dinnertime so I had made sure to pre-plan for it on my menu with a Carl's Jr. chicken club lettuce wrap. They are SO good and I feel like I'm still indulging while still keeping it low carb. And I'm proud to say I didn't steal a single french fry from my kids dinners! That...was hard.
So day 4 was definitely more of a temptation, but I made it through unscathed. And honestly, it's already getting easier. I'm hoping that trend continues. But seeing the scale move is definitely motivation to keep on going. Hopefully in one more week I can start adding back in some more exercise as I get to start trying to walk in sneakers again! Fingers crossed.
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