I'm here...I didn't disappear!

Okay, I know you've been worried. Normally, an absence of a few days from my blog means I've been hitting the chocolate chips pretty hard.

Not this time!! :D

I have been staying up too late, though, leaving me spacey and tired and not able to put too many coherent sentences together.

Friday night I was spent. I just did NOT want to spend another minute in my kitchen making food. I was craving a nice dinner at a nice place with nice people around me.  No food to prep or cook and no dishes to oversee. 

Thing is, going out to eat while staying plant strong is nearly impossible! Even a salad at most of our local places is loaded with stuff I'd pick out.  I don't want to pay $10 for a plate of lettuce-hold-the-dressing, iykwim. ;)

We decided on a new Mexican restaurant near us. I looked over their menu before we left and chose one of the vegetarian options they had. I ordered it without the dairy. It was devine!! Tortilla stuffed with a medley of vegetables, topped with tomatillo sauce.  A side of lettuce, tomatoes, black beans, and rice.  I left the rice, since it was white.  I only ate one enchilada and left some beans on the plate as well. I was stuffed with yummy food!  We did splurge and have the chips and salsa and I ignored the fact that the tortilla was white flour. I enjoyed my meal with an abundance of gratitude!

Saturday was busy with household tasks, meals, picking up and dropping off my daughter for work, and grocery shopping. We actually only needed one cart this week. Shocking.

Today we grazed a bit. I think I'm just going to not fuss about snacking on Sundays as long as the snacks are nutritious.  I did overdo the grains this weekend. The tortilla on Friday, brown rice on Saturday, and I had TWO pieces of Ezekiel bread toast tonight for my dinner.  It was lovely.

My weight still is going down, but not in very high increments. Still, down is what I want to see.

Very little exercise this weekend.  I took a walk with some kiddos around town on Saturday, but that's been all. I need to get to bed at a decent hour tonight so I can get back to my habit-building goals.

So, that's my weekend report. I don't like being away from here for long periods of time. I know it drags my motivation down a bit. Thankfully, I still had good things to report this time.