The Weekend

Happy Sunday evening folks!  I hope you have had a wonderful weekend!

So, the weekend was good.  On Saturday, after going to pick fresh blueberries (which I will get to later) I went to Jason's Deli for lunch with Clare and had a Vegaletta sandwich which was really tasty, less than 400 calories, and had olives as the MUFA.  For dinner we had cherry tomato penne pasta which was also very good and very pretty.  I will post a picture of it tomorrow.

Today I also had tasty food.  For dinner we had shrimp tacos with an avocado salsa for the MUFA.  They were very very good and I will definitely be eating them again.  I tried to take a picture of them but for some reason it saved as a black box even though it shows the picture on my phone.  You will just have to imagine them being beautiful and tasty.

The only problem I had this weekend was during lunch today.  I found something on the Quiznos website that looks Flat-Belly-Diet friendly and so set out to get it for lunch.  Quiznos was closed.  Disappointing.  This was made more irritating by the fact that I couldn't easily just drive through somewhere else to get something.  As I was stewing over this on the drive home (with no lunch) I started to fall into the bitter-about-dieting phase.  Here is why I am bitter about dieting:

I should not weigh this much in the first place.  I lost a good amount of weight.  I weighed less than I do now.  I do not eat badly on a regular basis.  Yes I will eat out occasionally but, thinking about it, on a regular day I eat a tiny breakfast (if anything), a Lean Cuisine or something else pretty small for lunch, and a normal dinner.  This cannot possibly be more than 1800-2000 calories at most.  You have to have an excess of 3500 calories to gain a pound.  If you need 1600-1800 calories a day that is not leaving an incredible excess.  Plus, I move around all day.  I didn't have a sitting around job and I don't sit around now.  I chase the Jackster.  So those calories shouldn't be causing me to gain weight.  But I do!  I gain weight like crazy!  Now, I will admit that right before we moved, and especially when I was in Columbia alone, I did not eat well.  But I did not eat badly enough to gain almost 15 pounds.  It does not make mathematical or scientific sense.  Thus, I have fallen into the bitter-about-dieting mentality.  Sigh.

Fortunately, I have started to move out of this mentality due to some super awesome peanut butter cookies that are in my diet cookbook and that I made to have for a snack for the next few days.  Also, I have some lemon-blueberry (fresh picked on Saturday!) - buttermilk muffins to eat for breakfast.  These things make me feel better.  So, hopefully, Monday will start on a good note!  Have a good week!