Unexpected challenges....

Saturday was mine and my husbands 24th wedding anniversary. We were going to go to town and just spend some time together not big plans but, spending time together is the best plan. I ended up facing an unexpected challenge when it came to eating lunch. I had eaten oatmeal with a spoon of yogurt and a half of a banana and coffee. A pretty typical breakfast for me. After eating I got ready to go to town and in the mean time our son made plans to go to a friends house so it was getting late and I was getting hungry for lunch but I wanted to wait to eat because I wasn't sure if we were going out to eat for lunch or for dinner or both and I wanted to plan out my calories and not overeat for the day. Well it ended up that I waited too long to eat and got extremely hungry. My husband asked me what I wanted and I said I would probably go get a Taco bell taco (170 calories) and the apple I had in my bag. This way I could save the most of my calories for a sit down dinner but, he didn't want Taco bell he wanted KFC and I wasn't sure what they had that I could eat so I suggested that we go to the grocery store deli and he could get his fried chicken and jojos and I could get something healthy. Sounded like a good plan till I got there. I did not see anything in the deli that looked even remotely healthy! I could not believe it. I was getting so hungry that I could not think. I looked in the produce for celery but it was too dirty and I didn't want to eat it that way. I looked at the pre-made salads but they didn't look very good and were too expensive. I was starving and didn't have a plan....what was I going to do?? I decided to get a cheese stick and some reduced fat wheat thins and eat my apple with it. I thought that would be a good lunch and it would fill me up. My husband got a bit ticked that I wasn't getting a "real lunch". I just didn't give in and stuck to my decision. So we ate a quiet lunch in the car. I felt so much better after I ate. About 3 hours later I started to get hungry again and didn't want to wait so long like last time so I started to tell my husband that I was getting hungry. He was not hungry at all because he was stuffed with fried chicken and fried jojos and not really feeling very good after eating it. He wanted the fried chicken because I don't buy it anymore and he was really wanting some but, after how he felt eating it he did admit that he needs to rethink eating fried chicken again. I didn't want to make him eat again just because I was hungry but, if I ate now I wouldn't be hungry for dinner when he was and we would not have a good dinner date. I talked him into sharing a dinner with me....he never wants to do that because he likes to have his own food and I don't like to go out any more because I don't want to overeat. So, we ended up going out to eat for dinner and shared a plate of grilled shrimp tacos and 2 cups of chowder. It turned out to be very nice and he saw that he could share a meal with me and feel good about it in the end. Our son's friend gave a card for our anniversary with money to go out for dessert at a little patisserie in town the thought of that was a challenge too but, we went. And guess what.... it was great! We ordered the chocolate mouse tort with kalua whipped cream....and surprise.....we shared one. We ate it out on the patio at a small table in the sunshine and had a wonderful time! At the end of the day we went to a movie with no popcorn or pop.....just two mini dove dark chocolates.

I had some challenges for the day but overall I worked them out and stayed within my calorie count and had a wonderful time with my husband.

I posted a new progress picture today and can't wait to weigh-in tomorrow to see if I made it to 65 pounds lost!! I'm so close.