Another week finishes

It's Friday again, again feeling a little lighter, or if not lighter, good. Like I mentioned a couple of days ago, even as late as Thursday you still feel a little bigger, then Friday/Saturday mornings you feel like a lightweight. If you had a hot date, I'd definitely not plan it 1 or 2 days after a cheat day.

My week has been a little disappointing from a diet point of view, but if I still lose any weight this week, it'll probably get close to my normal diet attitude. What did I do wrong? What did I do right first. I didn't drink Monday or Tuesday, had 2 reds Wednesday, so that's all good. Thursday was 3.5 wines (had win with wife at dinner), and 1 bourbon. Not really bad, was happy to stop at 1 bourbon, as I was up another hour almost, and usually just keep going until I sleep. Overall, I'd give this week a pass so far for drinking, I'd be pretty happy for that to be a normal week.

Diet was thrown out a little by choosing takeout for lunch, then getting told the next day was to be a catchup with an old work mate at a pub lunch. Chinese takeout wasn't healthy, but I did ditch 2/3rds of the rice, as it is just useless filler compared with the meat and veggies. Sauce is obviously excessive, but overall the meal, when the rice was thrown out, is still not drastically bad. That night, I had crumbed chicken and otherwise good veggies. Not terrible, but crumbed food is off Ferriss's list. I also had a handful of nuts after dinner, mainly because they were there. Not the best day. The pub lunch was also crumbed chicken (excellent), with salad and chips and a beer. Chips were magnificent, but I aimed to only eat 1/3rd of them. Only after sitting there talking for an extra 30 minutes, I'd just occasionally grab another, until they were all gone. Woops. Still had all the salad, and plenty of chicken, no sauces, so could have been worse. Last night was a good meal, but had 2 handfuls of nuts for no good reason. Today will be quite solid diet from what I can tell, I will endevour to not eat bad, given I'm only one day from a cheat day.

As I said, I'm feeling great, and wouldn't be surprised to see another 0.5-1kg drop tomorrow, so this will be the new normal for me if that's the case. Not 100% diet, but just nothing excessive, like buying bags of chips on non-cheat day, or eating crackers/ice cream at home. The reduction of beer must also be helping. I'm also still doing everything else as per diet too, so I still expect to be able to lose weight some weeks when I have a couple of bad things during my diet week. The biggest problem I can see with blurring the line is the temptation factor. I want to try this new idea of diet until Christmas now, and still expect to be under 98-99 kgs by then if I don't stop doing it.

Cheat day this week will be hard working morning (mowing, cleaning house), then party tomorrow, with snacks, nice food, beers flowing. Looking forward to it of course. Hopefully the hangover isn't too bad.