Hello all!
I’m baaaack! I’ve tried so hard to catch up on blogs and comment everyone who did new posts as I was gone, but I’m sure I missed some. Sorry…I’ll do better. Before I do the vacation review, it’s time for that pesky little thing called the weekly weigh-in.
Week 28 Results:
Start (9/1/09): 234.8
Week 19 (1/14/10) 205.9 (+0.2)
Week 20 (1/21/10) 205.3 (-0.6)
Week 21 (1/28/10) 203 (-2.3)
Week 22 (2/4/10) 203.3 (+0.3)
Week 23 (2/11/10) 204.6 (+1.3)
Week 24 (2/18/10) 204.1 (-0.5)
Week 25 (2/25/10) 204.4 (+0.3)
Week 26 (3/4/10) 206.4 (+2)
Week 27 (3/11/10) 203.3 (-3.1)
Week 28 (3/18/10) 201.1 (-2.2)
Total Loss: 33.7 pounds in 28 weeks
Comments: It’s another miracle! I have no idea how I managed to pull this off (details coming…) after the week of fun I had, but I’ll take it. I’m telling you, this is further proof to my theory that my body is “behind” on what I’m doing. I fully expected to name this post: “Vacation Review…aka “How I gained 3 pounds in one week.” Perhaps I’ll save that title for next week, but I’m hoping not!
I’m thisclose to being back in the 100’s. OMGBECKY!! I am back on track and counting calories and such today, so I’m hoping next week will be THE week. But, I’m a realist and I know that there’s gonna be a price to pay for vacation, so I’ll be okay with next week just being a stay the same week if I am indeed behind on when I see results/punishments. It’s all good tho, because I had a great great time on vacation! What’s that? Wanna see pics? I was hoping you’d say that!! This trip included a MILESTONE for me (details coming…) and today is also another milestone as it’s the lowest weight I’ve been at since I started the big change on 9/1/09. I would say I feel like dancing, but I’m pretty tired from dancing all weekend combined with the long dance I did this morning after getting off the scale!
Vacation Review:
I went to Louisville, Kentucky for a quick getaway from real life, on Saturday morning through Monday morning. It was a very quick trip, but a very fun trip as well.
The first stop was Hardee’s on Saturday morning for breakfast (Bacon/Egg/Cheese biscuit.) I was very excited because I haven’t had a good “bad” breakfast sandwich in forever, especially Hardee’s, so I enjoyed every bite!
For lunch, we stopped outside of Nashville at the Loveless Cafe. It’s been on Food Network and there were TONS of pictures on the wall of famous people that had stopped by and ate there and signed pics. They are known for their biscuits (Carol Fay, “The Biscuit Lady” was there that day!!) which are pictured here:
I’m not sure how they look in the picture, but they were delicious! Also, kinda small. I ate two of them, but sure did want more. I was gonna use the “I’m on vacation!” excuse but still had the calorie budget in my head. For the main course I ordered the Fried Chicken Tenders with Creamed Corn and Mac and Cheese on the side:
I expected to stuff myself (it’s vacaaation!) but I only ate two strips, a few bites of mac and cheese, and about a third of the corn. I was VERY proud, especially when my goal was to indulge!
The trip continued, eventually into Louisville. Once there, we hit up the Louisville Science Center to see an IMAX film about the Titanic (“Ghosts of the Abyss”), which was great because I’m a big time Titanic nerd. While there, we checked out some exhibits:
And this, ironically, was the only real exercise I got on the trip! About 3 lifts of the weights…haha. Unless you count a ton of walking around town and the zoo (which I do count!) It’s ironic because we had a friggin’ awesome hotel with a GREAT gym. I was excited to use it (even on vacation!) because I can’t afford a gym membership here and was wanting to try out all the machines. Unfortunately, I’m still 18 at heart and woke up with a hangover from hell both mornings and skipped the gym both days. Oops.
There was also an exhibit about the food pyramid and had this big scale with all sorts of food models (good and bad) to see:
and for a laugh I put all my fav foods (aka, the bad ones) into the scale for a funny pic. I told yall I don’t like any fruits and most veggies. I do wish I could change that, I really do.
It was soon night time which meant dinner time! We ate at a Bistro Cafe and I got a burger on an English Muffin with “chips” that were fried potato thingies:
I ate about 3 of the fries (wasn’t really feeling them…) and most of the burger patty. I scraped off a lot of the cheese. I’m weird about eating too much dairy on road trips b/c it makes me feel ill. I did LOVE the idea of a burger on an English Muffin. I had never thought of doing that, and I love the idea because I always end up having to throw away my EM’s because they expire before I can eat that many breakfasts each week!
After dinner, we went to the bar and I drank way too much. I THINK I had a good time but it’s hard to remember details, hehe.
Sunday morning, woke up way too early to a dreary rainy day. We had planned to go to the Zoo that day, and it wasn’t raining hard enough to not go, so we went. It was kinda barely sprinkling, but was rather chilly. With the umbrella, it worked. I won’t bore you with pics of all the animals, but I did get some good ones. Here’s my favorite:
This gorilla was so friendly. He stayed up near the glass and let me take about 10 pictures. It was awesome! I love the zoo. We stayed there about 3 hours and did a ton of walking (with lots of hills) so hopefully that worked against some of the vodka I consumed. Oh and I avoided all zoo concession snacks! Yay!
Lunch Sunday was at a Subway-like place called Jimmy Johns. It was delicious. I later found out they were a chain and there’s one about 45 mins from here in a town we frequently go for some retail therapy!
After lunch, we wanted to explore (aka, I wanted to find a dessert place and enjoy one dessert!) and do some shopping. We found a great independent book store as well as a music store. But when I found the Chocolate Cafe, I knew it was ON!
I ordered a chocolate chip cookie and one caramel:
The waitress could see how excited I was for the cookie and even HEATED IT IN THE MICROWAVE for me!!!
Damn that was a good cookie. Glad I only had one, though 🙂
Afterwards we walked about three hundred thousand more miles and then took a two hour nap at the hotel. (I’m 18 at heart, not for real…I had to crash!)
Dinner that night was at the Spaghetti Factory, the place I had picked out as “my” meal for the trip. I got the Chicken Parmesan dish:
It was pretty good. The pasta was kinda “tough” so I ate about a third of it and most of the chicken. Oh and some bread. For dessert they gave you a free fancy ice cream scoop:
But again, dairy on road trips is scary for me, so I had about four small bites and came to my senses.
It was now time to get spiffy for night two of bar hopping, and I was SO VERY HAPPY to report I could finally fit into my new outfit and vest!!!
So now it’s BAR TIME!! (My fav, hehe.) I had noticed one bar was doing KARAOKE on Sunday night. Now, quick tidbit: I love karaoke. I love it, love it, love it. I SUCK at it, but I love it. Last summer, I did karaoke like every weekend. The trick? It was in my LIVING ROOM with friends. I have always been too scared to do it in public. It’s always been on my “life list” but I always chicken out. This time I was gonna try it again. After having a few drinks in the room, and another at the bar, I decided what the hell? I’ll never see these people again, right? So I got the binder, cheered when I saw they had my all time fav song (“Baby Got Back”) and quickly filled out a request slip with the song title and my name. I gave it to the DJ guy and he said I’d be up in 3 songs. I went back to my seat and got pretty sickly feeling because, OF COURSE, the guy singing was doing good. This was only worsened when another guy got up and sang “Run to You” as if he had American Idol auditions the next day. My buzz was quickly wearing off so I ordered a shot from the bar, downed it and waited…still nervous. So I ordered another shot, downed it, and a few mins later he was calling me up on stage. I hadn’t been that nervous in a very, very long time. I don’t like getting up in public, much less singing. But I did it, YAY!
And you know what? It went great! As soon as the background voice said “OH MY GOD, BECKY…” people were laughing and clapping and I felt better. Then I started “rapping” (cough, sooo not rapping, but whatever!) everyone was dancing and smiling and I wasn’t nervous anymore. It was so much fun! Afterwards, I got lots of applause. Note–I KNOW they weren’t cheering for my singing, I just think they were glad the bar had a pulse. We had been there about 40 minutes and every song had been a slow ballad type song until I rocked the mic (rrrriiigggghhhht!)
A few minutes later, my friend and I did a duet of “Don’t Stop Believing” Glee style (minus the Glee talent, of course!) so I did two songs total. So YAY another thing off my life list! (Along with learning the Thriller dance in 2007!) What’s next….hmmm stay tuned. Where DID I put that life list anyway?
We ended up at another bar and danced for about an hour or so and then hit the sack and headed home the next morning. I was verrry hungover Monday morning, as apparently the “rock star” lifestyle isn’t suited for me anymore. We stopped for lunch at IHOP because there’s no hangover food like pancakes, right?
By this point it was after lunch, and I was pretty dang hongrey, so I ate about 3/4 of this and it was delicious!
I guess that’s about it. We got home Monday afternoon and I resumed my old habits (except exercise, start back to that this afternoon…) of counting calories, water, etc. I give the trip two thumbs WAY up, and after looking back I think I did fairly good eating wise, too. Most places I didn’t eat the whole dish and except for the chocolate place, I didn’t do all the snacking I do back home, which goes to show you most of that snacking is from boredom.
Speaking of, I could use a snack right now…LOL. Thanks for reading!
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March 18, 2010 at 8:04 pm
erintakescontrol
First of all, GO CRAIG!!!!!! Way to lose that 2.2!!!
You’ve never had Jimmy Johns? OMGBECKY!!! That is one place that I will have to blacklist until the day I die!!! I have no self control at Jimmy John’s – the bread is like buttery and soft and there’s one right across from my office and it is almost as bad as having Sonic across the street! The BBQ chips are freakin’ yum and the pickles are some of the best dills I’ve ever had!!!!
Ok, I’m going to the gym now – and driving right past Jimmy Johns on the way…maybe someday, I’ll be able to have a meal there without looking like a starving Ethiopian kid…
GO CRAIG! 😀
March 18, 2010 at 8:10 pm
craigversion2
Thanks Erin! I had never had JJ’s or heard of it…but I so enjoyed it! I could only imagine a nice steak and cheese on that bread…but my turkey was dang yummy! hehe.
March 18, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Brandon
Hey Craig, great job on the weight loss this week! Looks like you had a great time on your vacation, I’m happy to hear that you managed to scratch another item off your life list. It’s good that you were able to enjoy yourself on your vacation, and not have it totally kill your progress – I’m sure all the walking you did helped out!
Keep it up man, and you’ll be in onederland before you know it!!!
March 18, 2010 at 9:32 pm
AndrewENZ
Great loss and it sounds like you had an even better holiday!
March 19, 2010 at 12:02 am
Jeremy Logsdon
I am a firm believer that sometimes, your body needs cheat days. Just don’t have a cheat week and be sure to post a loss next week. 🙂
March 19, 2010 at 12:44 am
Frank Dobner
I would not call your vacation an indulgence vacation because you really controlled yourself at times. I agree with Jeremy above that sometimes I think you need to just give in and enjoy and indulgence. I think I am due.
March 19, 2010 at 1:22 am
craigversion2
I agree! Indulge! I planned mine ahead of time and luckily wasn’t that hard to get back on the wagon 🙂
March 19, 2010 at 2:38 am
Chad
GO CRAIG!!!!!!!!! What an awesome couple of weeks on the scale!!! Glad you had a great time on vacation, too. Sounds like good times all around. You’re doing great — you’re almost below 200!!!! Can you believe it?
March 19, 2010 at 3:59 am
Jay
Nice! It seems like you had a lot of fun. 🙂
I would never be brave enough to do KARAOKE though. And those bisects did look good. :p
Cheers!
March 19, 2010 at 4:23 am
beej
Wow!! What a great vacation! And you even lost weight?! Sweet. Welcome back.
March 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Steve
The fact that you were able to lose weight while on vacation is FRICKIN’ KICKASS!!!! When you blast out of a plateau you REALLY blast out of a plateau, eh? Great job!!!! 🙂
March 19, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Thermy
Ha! Looks like loads of fun! Good on you for rocking the bar!
March 19, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Dana (www.eatsleepgetgfit.com)
You look very spify in that vest! Super cute! Glad you had fun!
March 19, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Josie
Ok, you rock my pretty little pink toe socks off! I saw these pics on facebook, but having this play by play was just icing on the cake! I’m glad you were able to get away and have this fun and a weight loss to boot! Oh how I wish there was video of you singing that song! I’ll bet it was a great time for everyone there. Doesn’t it feel great to do something you’ve never done before? YAY for milestones!
ps. you are looking mighty fine in that new suit if I do say so myself!
Way to go Craig! Are you doing the c25k challenge with Kat?
March 20, 2010 at 3:59 am
Lynne Garcia
Looks like you had an awesome time. I also would have loved to see you sing karaoke. My husband loves karaoke too and also LOVES TO EMBARRASS THE HELL out of me when he does it. I hide and pretend I don’t know him because he’s… well… he’s really freaking bad!
Gratz on the loss too. And I also agree with Josie… you look hot in the suit. All the hard work has paid off for you.
March 21, 2010 at 5:40 am
rebelbrad
My stomach growled just looking at those pics! haha
March 26, 2010 at 1:01 am
Shannon
OMGosh sorry for the comment overload but I LOVE YOU! You are freakin’ adorable!
1st I can’t believe you did not gain 10 pounds with that kind of food!
2nd you must have willpower like superman to only eat 1 cookie and 1 carmel.
3rd You look fantastic in your new outfit!!
and 4th anyone who like Baby Got Back ROCKS!!!!
March 26, 2010 at 1:27 am
craigversion2
thankyouthankyouthankyou!! Shannon it took will power to be good at the choc place! The others I just tried to work on portion control. And Baby got back is my fav song of all time! 🙂