Excitement Today, Suspense for Tomorrow

So my excitement for today was, I sat in front of the tv all day today!  I don't think I've ever sat and watched an inauguration all day before.  It was exciting and historic and totally fascinating to me. 

I found a couple of interesting things online I thought I'd share.  First of all, did you know not only the menu but the recipes for the inauguration luncheon are online?  Very interesting!  You can check that out *here* if you're interested.  The Seafood Stew sounds SO good!  (It calls for SIX lobsters!)

I also watched two slideshows.  One was a slideshow of the faces of all our presidents in order.  I found it very interesting to sit and look at all the faces of our presidents.  Something I noticed was most of the early ones had quite the facial hair.  I forget which one, but one of them had some crazy eyebrows.  I also noticed that only a few smiled.  Jimmy Carter had a downright grin.  It doesn't take that long to watch, if you're interested, you can find that slideshow at www.whitehouse.gov/slideshows/presidents.

The other slideshow was a slideshow of some of the president's pets - so cute!  My faves were George Bush Sr.'s dog Millie with her pupplies, and the photo of the Clinton's cat "Socks".  This one is even shorter than the other and it's fun - you can check it out at www.whitehouse.gov/slideshows/presidentialpets/.
     
And now about the suspense....
 
Well, unfortunately I can't imagine I'm going to have a loss at my weigh-in tomorrow.  It's not that I fell off the wagon or anything like that, but in the past week I had my father's birthday party (yummy dinner and cake and ice cream), had friends over (wine, cheese and snacks), had a huge annual family party with all the trimmings (appetizers, huge meal, dessert - the works!), AND I visited a friend who had baked a banana bread - what was I going to do - not have a piece?

So although I could have skimped and strictly stayed to my weight watcher points, as I said previously, my big goal THIS time on Weight Watchers is to try to eat as normally and realistically as possible, so that MAYBE this time I won't gain it all back.  I'm NOT going to starve myself, exercise like a fiend, take diet pills or eat weird things like "soy protien" (I don't know what that is, but I've eaten it) - because I KNOW I won't be doing any of those things in "real life" once I'm done with the Weight Watchers program.

So at all these parties, I felt it would have been unrealistic for me to hardly eat anything.  So what I did is I tried to really pay attention to what food was there, and really think about what I REALLY wanted to eat.

I did *not* just throw stuff down my pie hole mindlessly.  (Which is what I usually do.)

I chose what I really wanted, I ate small portions, and savored what I had.  So although I may not lose any weight this week (or God help me if I gained!), I didn't overeat at any of these occasions, I enjoyed myself, and I hope that if I can get into the habit of being more thoughtful about what I eat, I'll have more success in the long term.

I'm meeting some friends tomorrow morning, so I may not be able to post about my weigh in until late tomorrow, but I promise I'll check in whether it's good news or bad.

*crossing fingers*

The end.