blew it?

So this weekend i'm pretty sure I blew whatever loss I had last week and whatever losses I might have for the next, oh say 5 months. Man did we eat. First of all, I forgot about road trips and how they are detrimental to your health because they're boring and eating is fun. So sweedish berries, veggie chips, trail mix and more all got devoured in the 10 hours of driving. Plus we ate good at our friend's house. They made us steak and potatoes and veggies and muffins and chicken parmasaen, and eggs benedict. Plus we ate out at the Olive Garden and devored the breadsticks. At least I cut my pasta in half and only ate that.

Shopping was fun too. Expensive but fun. I forgot how expensive my husband is. We probably blew $800 including gas and meals and stuff. Ouch. I bought a pair of $15 jeans, a $10 belt, some stevia (fake sugar), a few organizing things at Ikea, some various kitchen things and a plant stand. Oh and a jump rope. It was $20 at the Nike store, so a bit much but I could never find the kinds I wanted before. But then an hour later I saw a $7 one at Walmart, oh well. Hubby bought a billion things but it was all stuff he really wanted mostly. Like there's a goalie store there so he bought a goalie hockey bag which he's always wanted, beer is cheap so he stocked up 6 cases. etc etc. boring.

we went to the water park at the mall. Fun, a little scarier than I thought it would be. I'm getting old. Hubby did pretty good too, he's not a ride person, hates even the ferris wheel. So he thought he was going to have a heart attack but did alright. ;) I did not feel my hottest standing in line in my tankini. I need to get a new bathing suit. But I don't want to until I'm at goal (just 10-ish lbs to go, come on already!!!). But by then, my bathing suit will look nice again. Hmf.

So I did not track on the weekend, I could pick out the big meals for you and some of the snacks, but there was a lot of picking and snacking that I'm sure I won't remember. But I'm back on the wagon. I started good today, eating healthy food and nothing but:

breakfast - 2 toast with peanut butter
s - carrots
l - spinach salad with veggies and italian dressing, grapes and honeydew melon
s - figs, yogurt
supper ?

Very vegalicious. I bought a bunch of bags of mixed frozen veggies so I'm going to make like a pound of that for every meal. Half the time that's my favorite part of what we're eating so I gotta remember to do that and cut the other food in half.

The friend's we were staying with had the coolest thing for a couple trying to workout together. It was a fitness competition thing. Basically a calendar with stickers (so you can make your own) and reward cards). If you exercise or go to the gym or whatever on that day, you get a sticker. If you go more than 3 times in a week, you get a 3 point sticker (not sure if you guy 5 times if you get 3 1pts and 2 3pts or what exactly but you could make up the rules your self). Then each week the winner gets to pick a reward card. The rewards are things like the other person has to cook your favorite meal or give you a massage or do dishes for a week or whatever. (there was a HUGE reward card stack, I can't imagine what they'd all say). I just thought that was so awesome and I was so jealous that they'd do that together (the guy was totally kicking the girl's ass too! I can't even imagine!). I sort of suggested doing that with hubby and he said "you win". Even if he'd want to do it, I just exercise way more than him and would kick his butt. The couple is planning on doing a triathalon this summer so that resparked my interest in a triathalon. So this thursday I'm going to try and go swimming. I found a couple races around here in June and when you think of it, that's really coming up fast.

The distances are:
Super Sprint - 300m Swim, 6k Bike, 3k Run
Sprint - 500m Swim, 10k Bike, 5k Run
women's only - 300m swim/10km bike/3km run
Team and Individual 1.5 km swim, 25-30 km bike, 10 km run. (Sprint distance is half.)

So I'm not sure which I'd like to do. I know that I can run 5 k in about 30 minutes, and I heard somewhere the sprint one was about 30 minutes per thing. I think I could handle that, but I've never ran 5k after already working out for an hour. Might be tough. So the super sprint or the women's only with just 3k run sounds better. I dunno.

But my friend suggested I come do the race in Edmonton with them too, so that's an option. I'm excited to start thinking of it and I want to see just how far 500 m of swimming is, try it on thursday. (what's a pool length? 25? or 50?) Plus I don't know how serious the transitions are and stuff if it's just for fun. Also, I only have a mountain bike, not a street bike, is that ok? Would I look dumb? I know it would make it harder but I'm not buying a bike for 1 race. Anybody out there done a triathalon?

So I have to finish checking up with all of you now. Hope you stayed on track better than I did!