#55 Post Mock Vegas (05/22/12)

I love my wife for having an imagination and creative side.  Mach Vegas was a lot of fun.  I got home and she had set up the house as a hotel, signs all around, welcome to Vegas, and pictures of slot machines etc, and with room numbers on the doors.  She met me in a fedora and big sunglasses as the “receptionist”.  I couldn’t stop smiling/giggling as she checked me in, gave me a room key, and a tour of the hotel.  We became tourists in our own city.  In the theme of Las Vegas we went to all the casinos, ate out a lot, did some sightseeing and shopping. 

Along with Vegas theme came eating out.  Friday and Saturday we came in under our calorie goals, not quite on really good clean foods but we kept it from being a total binge weekend.  Sunday however came the other Vegas ritual; buffet.  We had a Sunday brunch buffet and ate too much.  I would like to note though, we were fuller faster than normal.  But end result ate TOO MUCH.  Sunday evening was the bad icing on the cake so to speak; a BBQ dinner with family.  Sunday was an overall over eating binge day; buffet with, eggs, bacon, crab salad, noodle salad, fruit (some covered in chocolate), waffle with whip cream and strawberries, ½ croissant filled with chocolate and multiple desert tastes, dinner was an appetizer of cheese artichoke dip with crackers, and alcohol then the main was BBQ pork with roast potatoes, corn on the cob, bread, salad, alcohol and cheesecake for dessert.  The day end was about 1000 calories over at best estimate for the buffet and food cooked elsewhere.  It might have been more.  I tried to log everything though, even though it was a binge day. 

The other side of Vegas was lots of walking, which was good to help offset the extra calories a bit. 

Monday, even though it was a day off, it was back to reality.  We did our shopping, cleaning, cooking, cutting etc.  The weekend was a fantastic weekend, even though Sunday cost me a pound maybe a pound and a half. (Next day I did an extra weigh in to see the weight cost)  We will see when it all ends on Saturday, on the official weigh in.  I’m going to bust my but to hopefully battle the binge and lose more than the gain. 

#54 Viva Vegas (05/18/12)

Today is the day starting the long weekend.  For this long weekend my wife and I are having a Stacation.  I know vacations are usually doom to a diet.  Will a stacation be the same?  I’m letting my wife plan the whole weekend, and other than the theme of Viva Vegas, I don’t know what we will be doing.  She did say a LOT of walking to stay in tune with Vegas, as when we did go, we walked, and walked, and walked.  You get the idea.  It would have been neat to see how many steps we did with the fitbit in Vegas.  Alas let’s hope this isn’t too bad on the diet. 

Monday we will try and work off calories, as we will be doing some severe gardening to get rid of the Jiffi pot plants that are starting to take over our kitchen.  We are having to rework a garden patch that hasn’t been used in years and has been taken over by dandelions and some rhubarb.