This weekend was a big fat BUST in the budget and weight loss-wise.
It just seems like when I go weeks and weeks doing really well, sticking to the budget and sticking to my "diet," I feel like I need to have one week where I just let go and do whatever I want to.
Last weekend Philip and I went out Friday night. We had a crappy week with his job, and decided to go out and forget about it a while. We had dinner at Deep Fork. It was fantastic, the atmosphere, the drinks, the service, the food.... wonderful. I had the most AMAZING tomato mozzarella salad and then salmon with sweet potato fries. We topped it off with dessert at Orange Leaf. The entire was so much fun, but we also completely blew the budget and the diet.
The next day we got up, had an awful (but so...SO good) breakfast. And decided to go shopping crazy.
People.
I have not shopped like this in a long time (not with my own money anyway). We spent about 5 months worth of clothing allowance in one afternoon. I decided to screw WW for the rest of the day too and ate at Orange Leaf again.
Needless to say, I did not weigh in at WW tonight. My leader knew right away. I said, "I don't want to weigh in today." She said, "Oh, sounds good. Was it fun?" Haha. Yes. Yes it was.
And here is the difference between old me and new me. Old me would continue to eat like that and spend like that until it was out of control again. Old me would have run out of cash for the shopping trip and used the credit card keep shopping, promising myself to pay if off when we got home. Nope, we cash flowed the whole thing, and while it slightly slows our saving down... it's definitely not going to hurt us. I think you realize it's a life change when you fall off the wagon, but decide to immediately hop back on. It was fun as a "treat," but I could never live every day of my life like that. I have too many goals.
It was an amazing weekend though.
Oh, and I bought my first "single digit" sized jeans from American Eagle in 2 years. It was so nice to have to ask the attendant for a SMALLER size. That's about all the motivation I need to keep this thing going.
At next week's WI, I'm hoping to be down 2.8lbs, for a total of 40 pounds gone!
4 comments:
I LOVE Orange Leaf. Glad you had a good weekend and congrats on the weight loss!
I still need to try Orange Leaf. Do they have any WW friendly items? There is one across the street from the Chic Fil A in Yukon I drive by multiple times a day.
I fell off the wagon and went to Buffalo Wild Wings last night. I couldn't eat as much as I used to and I didn't weigh any different this morning. It would be miserable to never be able to have BWW again. But I usually save my weekly points for this kind of thing.
You rock wit yo bad shopping and saving money self!
~Amber
Glad yall had a great weekend! Yay for new clothes, good food, and time with the hubby!! I wish we could have found a sitter and joined you...that would have made it even better. :)
Sounds like a great weekend, everyone needs that once in a while!
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