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Day 128

This is The Week of Parties and Things.  Saturday was the company party, yesterday was a team holiday lunch, Wednesday is a department lunch, then a project happy hour, dinner out on Friday and a birthday/we survived 2012 party on Saturday.  Oh yeah, and Christmas.


Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
So I'm assigning Shame Squad(tm) members to keep an eye on me so I'll have some accountability.  And the nominees are:
  • Company Party-Beckie (she did fine until we both started drinking--then we ate pita, chips, and hummus)
  • Team Lunch-Kathy (she did a great job of keeping an eye on me and went for a walk with me!)
  • Department Lunch-Kelly & Kate
  • Project Happy Hour-Linzi
  • Friday Dinner-Chris
  • Saturday Party-Rob
  • Christmas-Amy & Joyce
So on to yesterday--breakfast was a glass of water and a banana.  Total: 0 points

Lunch was shrimp spiedini with grilled veggies (which I didn't finish), a garden salad with no croutons, a piece of bread with two teaspoons of olive oil, a single piece of calamari (that seems kind of crazy), and a half of a mozzarella stick.  And a "taste" of a coworker's cake that was seriously smaller than my fingernail.  Also three glasses of tea/water.  Total:15 points

 Snack was two glasses of water and two antacids!  Total: 0 points

 Dinner was six  North African meatballs, a half cup of brown rice, and a half cup of milk with two glasses of water.   The meatballs were from a recipe out of my WW cookbook, and I'm sad to say that while they contained delicious ingredients (tomatoes, cilantro, lemon, mint, cumin) they were palatable but not delicious.  Oh well, they can't all be winners... Total: 9 points
This is how I feel about you, North African meatballs.
Snack was a quarter ounce of cheese.  Total: 2 points

Liquids: 8/6
Dairy: 1/2  Woulda had more, but I ran out of milk
Vitamin: 1/1
Healthy Oil: 2/2
Fruits/Veggies: 5/5
Protein: 2/2
Whole Grains: yes, brown rice
Exercise: yes, a ten minute walk with Kathy, yoga, and wii fit
Total: 26/26 points
Weekly Points: 43/49 for the week

 In honor of all that exercise, here's a Kate.
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"You will do pigeon pose and you will LIKE IT!"

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