IP Week 5 - postscript

Sunday was a crazy day.....

It was the first day I had to eat food out of sequence since we were meeting my Aunt and cousin for lunch. I did great in terms of not eating any sugar or carbs other than what was in the lettuce and other veggies in the salad. I used EVOO and lemon juice as my dressing and made sure to only eat protein or lettuce. I did eat the bacon in the salad as there wasn't that much chicken in the darn thing! I also nibbled on small bites of NON-protocol avocado and blue cheese. They're high in fat so I'm supposed to avoid them but I really needed the food so I had about 4 very small bites.  I didn't feel any guilt at all.... it was a circumstance that I knew would be coming since we eat out often.  I just knew I wasn't getting enough food so I loaded up more on protein and fat to make up for the lack of actual lettuce.

The weird thing that ended up happening was that I had to eat out for dinner too. That's kind of a no-no in IP.... but I figured I wasn't home and this was a curveball that I truly hadn't anticipated so I ate a small filet mignon and a salad (had to pick thru the cheese but otherwise got a small side salad out of the deal) and steamed broccoli. I don't know what this will do to my weight tomorrow but I'm hoping that all the walking I did today will help bring my weight back down. If I gained....well, that's okay. My official weigh ins are on Saturday even though I haven't finished out the week so at least this can be a blip on the radar if there's any gain!

I did manage to drink a lot of water though and had several glasses of iced tea too. I should be managing to flush out a lot of the excess fat from my system or at least the extra fiber I took should help escort the stuff out! ;-)

I will be weighing myself about 6-7 hours just to see how much this affected me.  I'm not too concerned since my weight loss has been more than stellar according to my coach! I think it's really from the fact that I don't cheat with sugar....if I do anything it's with protein/fat! It doesn't happen very often so I think I will be able to continue focusing on the big goal at the end of this proverbial tunnel!