Missed a Blog Day

I missed a blog day yesterday, but it was a very busy day. But it was a whole lot easier than day 3. I actually had such a good day. My diet went good. It felt like my body was starting to catch on to the changes. I did a good ten minute warm up and then worked out the lower extremities of the bod. My legs were nice and tired afterwards, but it was great. I have been doing really good on my food changes also. It is easier to pack my lunch the night before and get it all measured out cause then I can sleep in a bit longer in the morning. I find that when I measure my food it makes it so much easier to account for everything that I intake.
Today on the other hand, is a different story. I wasn't able to work out because half of our team went out on a site tour and so there were only a couple of us back to man the POD. Then when they got back we had to go to our weekly support meeting. It was the first meeting of the month so they bought us all lunch. I thought I was in trouble. Even though I made it a free day, I decided to make a conscious decision about what I was going to eat because I knew that we still had my Christmas party to go to and I was told it is always a lot of food. SO they bought us lunch from Panda Express so I decided to hop on the internet and find out what would be good without blowing everything. So I ended up ordering Steamed Vegetables which are 90 cal, 7 fat, 3 Fiber, tell me how do steamed Vege's end up with 7 grams of fat? Oh well. Then I ordered the Mushroom chicken, which was around 130 cal for a little over 5oz which is a little over a cup, 6 fat and 3 fiber and then two spring rolls wich are 80 cal a piece, 3.5 fat in one, and 2 fiber each, so when I calculated it up it was around 7.5 points. If you make a conscious decision about what you want before hand, you can still enjoy going out without blowing your diet to pieces. Then every Friday at work they have treat day at 3:00 so instead of getting M&M's or Starbursts or something I grabbed a banana. I really wanted to just enjoy myself at the party so I wanted to decent before hand.
The party was great. We went to the Canyons resort and they took us up the gondola to the base of all the ski lifts and we had Cider, Hot Chocolate and appetisers at the lodge. It was great. They had different cheeses on one of the plates and I had some really good cheeses. Then we went back down the gondola ride to the Grand Summit lodge to a conference room and had a great buffett of food. They had sweet potates and regular potatoes, mashed potatoes, turkey and rib eye steaks and rolls and carrots...Ok tons of food. It was a grea...oh did I mention that they had two chocolate fountains? Needless to say I skipped they pies and had chocolate covered food. But I didn't stuff myself to the overflowing point. I was full, but I think this past week of eating portioned sizes had really shrunk my stomach. I still ate my fair share, but I didn't get seconds and I didn't go back for more when I was already full. No one puked last night watching me eat. To me that is a big accomplishment. And I am really happy to be learning to control my appetite. Now back to the diet!!!