Counting the Cost

Well what a FABULOUS weekend away we had. On one hand I wish that it could go longer. I loved being able to relax, swim, shop & be spontaneous all week end. On the other hand though, I am glad to be home, the warm protective walls & familiar routine all here waiting for me. I can stop spending money & start saving again! (The casino & outlet stores killed us! Lol)

So how did I go with my PP & sticking to my WW plan?

Friday I started out with a nice low PP bowl of cereal with skim milk. Lunch was 2 chilli chicken sushi rolls on the drive down to the Gold Coast. Friday night we went to the NRL match between Broncos (WOO HOO!) and Titans (BOO!) We decided to get a pizza to share between the 3 of us before we left. I had 2 pieces & counted it as 7pp per piece. I had 4 or so (I say or so because I *think* I had around 4... I’m a cheap drunk lol) vodka lime & sodas. As usual the vodka is what blew my PP out but I still managed to stay under what I had allocated for Friday.
The start of my week is actually Saturday. That means all the exercise points & weekly points are reset & it is too bad so sad for the extra points that I didn’t use for the week before! We started off our day with a nice swim & some laps in the resort pool. We actually had it to ourselves which I couldn’t believe as the weather was picture perfect! We went back upstairs & showered & got ready for our day. We headed back down to one of the cafes in the mall & I had a Breakfast Stack which consisted of avocado, bacon, poached egg all balanced on top of half a Panini. It was delicious except that it was actually ½ an avocado on there. I took it off & used around ¼ of it to spread on the Panini. Then we hit the outlet stores. We spent approx 2 hours walking around, trying things on & getting some serious bargains! Lunch time saw the boys get Hungry Jacks. I decided to have a low fat yogurt & a hand full of grapes instead as I knew we were going to my favourite restaurant for dinner & then out for drinks so I wanted to make sure that I had plenty of PP in the kitty. Dinner was spectacular as I expected. I had 1 piece of pizza & we shared a pasta dish between 3 of us. Then as a special treat Mum & I shared a Panna Cotta. It was DEVINE!!! There is actually not much choice in the tracker to record Panna Cotta so I chose the one with the highest PP (10!) to record it under. I am glad we shared it!
So up until this point I pretty much kept it all under control... over the course of Saturday night I had a few too many vodka’s ... so many that I don’t even know how many! I know I had some at the restaurant, some at the casino & some at the club we ended up at. I know that it wouldn’t have been any more than 10 because I was still managing to walk & I wasn’t sick or anything. I had a great night though so I don't regret that part of it! The other down side is that today I am feeling tired & lethargic. We did go for a walk but that was necessity over actually wanting to go for an exercise walk. (I wanted to get some ingredients for cooking that I can’t get up here!) I also succumbed to the evil McDonalds. I had a whole meal! When I came home & put it in to my tracker I just thought YUCK! It didn’t even taste good- what a waste of PP!

So I haven’t bothered tracking any of Saturday night’s drinks. How can I? I don’t really know how many I have had! Instead I am going to use my whole weekly points allowance towards them. I think that way with exercise & making sure I stick to my daily PP I should still be on track for a loss this week.