Weighed in a day early this week...

I'm going to Toronto to visit my mother this weekend so I weighed in a day early since I wanted to keep it consistent and use the same scale. I am down another 2.6lbs for a total of 23.6lbs in ten weeks! That is great, especially since it includes one week of zero weight loss, when I was in Niagara Falls. But although I didn't lose, I didn't gain either, so I see that as a minor victory.

I have yet another challenge on Monday- we're going out to dinner with some friends of the family who haven't met my son yet. My mom called and said they had picked a pizzeria! Well... much as I am in favour of not allowing diets to disrupt your life, there are certainly better choices of places to go. I looked at the menu for this place and I couldn't even get a plain garden salad! I suggested a few other places so now we've changed the venue to somewhere the other guests will enjoy, but there are also things that I can eat without disrupting my program.

I plan on eating a Nutrisystem dinner before I go out to reduce the cravings for the kind of junk that I used to eat and to prevent myself from overeating. I'm going to save up a couple of protein servings from earlier in the day and I plan to order a garden salad with salmon. I really miss seafood on Nutrisystem since there are no seafood options available in the standard plan, and Canadians can't order from the frozen meal menu.

There's no reason you can't go out with friends and family and enjoy yourself while losing weight, but it's definitely important to distinguish between a special occasion and just eating junk all the time since you're at a restaurant. You can still make healthy choices at your favourite restaurants! After all, really- it tastes good for the length of the meal, and then it's forgotten. Is it really worth it to set yourself back maybe a week?

People tell me they can't believe all the sacrifices I'm making, but it's hard for me to explain to them that I don't feel like I'm giving anything up at all- not only will I be smokin' hot when I'm finished losing weight, but I'll be a healthier, happier person. Like someone on the Nutrisystem boards said, "I'd eat cardboard for that, and this food is much better than cardboard!"