Climbing Out of the (Diet) Pit of Despair

Food -wise, I give yesterday a "scary" on a scale of 1 to 10. Not that any binges occurred, but I wound up booking 2 "heavy" meals on the same day. I was taken out to lunch as a thank you for some charity work (to the Ch0p H0use). I had a couple of bites of the apps - calamari with a fab asian sesame sauce and 3 oysters rockefeller. Then grilled salmon in a pathetic attempt to offset 2 decadent sides: fettucine alfredo and creamed spinach. Luckily nice restaurants give you great food instead of huge portions. I enjoyed every bite and had no guilt, but then ate a knockwurst for dinner (280 cals) plus 2 beers. I seriously doubt my 30 minutes on the bike offset all that! :-O Luckily today is 2 light meals!

Also, I got up for a 2 mile walk this morning, and did a 20 minute walk at lunch.

Random observations:

I had never done the exercise bike before - I used the one that is more like a real bike so the motion was up and down versus the recumbant. Pretty good workout, although I should have upped the intensity.

I only did 30 minutes because I wanted to go call my mom without my son around (he was in tae kwon do). He broke down in tears before we left the house saying he didn't feel like going. They have another belt test coming up in 2 1/2 weeks and he gets major performance anxiety. I tried to reassure him that he had plenty of time to prepare and that hubby would help him practice his forms. He finally cleaned up & we went - he felt better after that so I am glad we went. I don't want to push him into activities, but I don't want him to let insecurity hold him back from things he wants to do either.