Back in weight loss mode.

Yesterday I decided to put myself back in weight loss mode.  I have, a couple of times, eyed the rising numbers on the chart, and the next day cut back on food intake forcing a single reading below my target, then let the numbers bob right back up again.  Yesterday I decided I'd go into weight loss mode and remain there until my 5-day running average drops below 108.  So, several days of work.

I planned three goals: to eat on schedule, abstain from sweets, and keep portions small.  So, how did I do?

I am more or less pleased.  

• I had a medium breakfast, preparing for a day of errand running and going to the gym:  two poached eggs, one piece of toast, and salad.  Coffee of course.
• Still out and about at midmorning, and with only a Starbucks to sustain me, I chose a good snack:   Cafe au lait with whole milk.  Yes, that counts as a snack! A few ounces of whole milk, I've found, is an excellent midmorning infusion of protein, fat, and carbohydrate.  If you think you need a snack and you find yourself in a coffee shop, try a whole-milk coffee drink, and skip the sugar syrups and pastries.  Oh yeah, I also had a few almonds.
• In retrospect, I should have had a lunch with more protein in it.  I was not very hungry and I got a sushi-veg spring roll from the fancy grocery store.    It was the right size, a small bite, but I'd have done better if it had more than just a sliver of tuna in it.
• Back at home, about to head out to the mall with the family, I grabbed a handful of grapes, a few almonds, and a chunk of cheese.  Thank goodness I did because by the time we got to the restaurant, after carrying MJ halfway around the Enormous Mall of America, I was depleted.
• In the reliable Italian restaurant in the Enormous MoA, Mark and I split our whole dinner:  Caesar salad (I admit I could easily have eaten the whole salad myself) and gorgonzola-encrusted beef medallions with broccoli and mashed potatoes.  I gave Mark the potatoes and ate the broccoli.  After we split the steak we each had at least four ounces!  
•  I hadn't specifically planned not to have alcohol, so I count it as no shame that I had a glass of wine with dinner. 
• We stopped at the home of friends in the evening and so I finished up my day with tea.  I didn't touch the cookies that were offered to the children.
• I admit to eating bits of chocolate chip cookies my kids had left behind at bedtime snack.  In my defense, I was actually hungry at the time. 

So, you can see, I stayed "on habit" all the way up to the point where I should have thrown away the bits of uneaten chocolate chip cookie.  I think that is not terribly bad.  Especially since at one point yesterday I was standing downtown outside a fairly famous-for-being-good restaurant, open for brunch, looking at my watch and wondering if I could possibly justify stopping for lunch HERE, NOW, instead of where I would likely be at actual lunch time, where there was not nearly as high a concentration of restaurants.  That's the point where I turned and went into the Starbucks instead.