Be Nice- I donated!

I got through my blood donation yesterday! It was at our sister company {which I have never been to} so I looked the directions up on Mapquest before I went. Well, apparently Mapquest didn’t find the exact address, so it just took me somewhere completely different. Of course I didn’t notice until I had actually driven to the random location that it picked so I ended up coming back to work, then talking to someone who had already gone to donate, got directions from them, and then used their directions to find it. I was 10 minutes late for my appointment but they didn’t seem to mind. Except for the lady not being able to find my vein right away and digging around for it and finally asking someone else to help her, everything went well. I’m one of those people that have to turn their head away when they’re poking me and digging with the needle otherwise I think I would get sick. I also tried picking out the most nutritious snacks that I thought they had afterwards and picked Planter’s Trail Mix Nuts & Chocolate and a V8 Vegetable Juice, even though I’m not a huge fan of tomato juice.

Eating went ok yesterday, but could have been much worse. I did end up going above my calories and probably ended the day around 1800 calories, instead of 1500, but stopped myself from a binge! I got the munchies after dinner around 7pm or so and so I had some tortilla chips and salsa, then went to look in the fridge for more. I had a couple bites of light cottage cheese, and was thinking about making myself a sandwich and whatever else I could find, but I closed the fridge and went and sat back down. I’m getting stronger! I probably shouldn’t have had the chips & salsa and light cottage cheese, but at least I was able to stop myself there and not completely ruin my day. I also didn’t weigh today, so I don’t know if I had a small gain from yesterday, stayed the same, or lost! I’ll just have to wait until Monday!

Oh.. I tried mixing the Whey Protein Powder with my Great Value Nonfat Banana Cream Pie yogurt today and it was actually pretty good. I think I’ll continue to consume it that way until I get sick of it.

I couldn’t exercise yesterday because of the blood donation but I plan on getting one in tonight. Not sure what I’ll do yet though.

Week 2 - Weigh In

Loss for the week: +1.0 lbs
Starting weight: 238.0 lbs
Current weight: 237.4 lbs
Total loss to date: 0.60 lbs

Well I am not happy about my weigh in today but I had a suspicion my weight would go up after this weekend, so I was kind of prepared for it.

On Friday I suggested to my sister that we go out to dinner and guess where we ended up? A Fish Fry. And yes.. It was my idea. I had two Fried Cod fillets, some fried shrimp, and potato pancakes. Very yummy, but not so good for the diet.

Then on Saturday I skipped breakfast but went out to lunch with my Mom and sister to Perkins. I had a Grilled Chicken Salad though, so that was good. I even omitted the bacon it came with and added hard boiled egg. Then at the Holiday party I had some kind of Chicken meal with rice and some unknown substance on top (looked like gray guacamole??), and green beans. I also indulged in dessert and then had a few drinks. It was a good time though. I got a few compliments while I was there that I looked nice, so that felt good. I only danced for one song though, so didn’t really burn any calories off.

Sunday I went grocery shopping and then had Chips & Hummus for what we’ll call lunch and Chips and Taco Dip for what we’ll call dinner. It was kind of more just like an all day thing during the Packer game. So yea… Not a good weekend for my journey, but hopefully I can work extra hard to lose the gain plus some.

On another note, I bought some Whey Protein {Vanilla Cream flavored} & some Orange flavored drink mix. I read online that if you mix it together it tastes similar to a dream sickle. I had that for breakfast, in place of my Slim Fast. At first I got the dream sickle flavor, but after a while I had to choke the rest down. I could taste the iron flavor in it. So I’ll have to find some other way of drinking it. Any ideas? I read that you can also mix it with yogurt, tuna, or make a shake out of it. So maybe I’ll try one of those ideas. I’m still confused if I should be using this in place of a meal or if I should be having it after a workout? Any advice on that?

I’m giving blood today over my lunch hour at a sister company of ours. Think I’ll lose some weight? ;-)