Life gets in the way

As far as the diet and exercise plan goes, it took a big hit this weekend.  And with my pending weekly weigh in happening tomorrow, I'm a little afraid of what it will say.

It started on Friday.  I took the day off to enjoy a little "me time"...which involved playing a new video game I purchased and cheating a little on the diet.  I also had to clean the basement or else I would have been sleeping on the couch, but that's neither here nor there.  However, life got in the way.

You see, my wife got in a minor fender bender (minor enough that no one was hurt, however not minor enough that the car has been in the shop for over a week now), so we've been stuck driving a rental...of which we only have one key.  So Friday morning my wife wakes up and takes the boy to daycare and accidentally takes the key to the rental with her.  So I'm stuck at home, so my plan of eating a couple (four) slices of Casey's pizza for lunch were thwarted.  So I instead ate a granola bar and fasted while being distracted by my new awesome video game.

The wife came home and we went out for a late lunch to our favorite diner, Newton's Paradise Cafe.  And because I was starving, I ordered their classically Iowan breaded pork tenderloin.  This thing is as big as my head....and I have a big head, LITERALLY.  I ate every bite...it was amazing.

Then the next morning the wife had a craving for pancakes at our favorite diner again (see above).  So because I have no self restraint, we go (and unlucky for us, the same waiter was working....we felt sheepish).

Then Saturday night we met some friends out for dinner out our favorite restaurant in town, Montage.  I had the Hoison Pork Loin with their Montage Potatoes (think shredded potatoes with cheese and sour cream baked in a ramekin...delicious).

That's a lot of eating out and a lot of me not caring what I eat...

BUT, not all was lost!  Because my weigh in days are Tuesdays, I have Monday to make it all right in the world!!

Which brings me to the second, less fun part of the weekend...

You see, on Friday, our dryer quit working (broken belt).  I mentioned the fender bender (sun in wife's eyes).  Also earlier in the week our dish washer went kaput (water tank is leaking into the basement, need to buy a new dish washer).  So this weekend we went to Lowe's and ordered a new dish washer (and since it was 18 months no interest, we decided to replace our old refrigerator too...I'll buy close to anything with no interest for 18 months).

Which brings us back to Monday, where I was going to make up for my transgressions during the weekend.  The appliance repair guy who we've been waiting on all weekend calls me 10 minutes before I was going to work out and asked if I could be at the house in 15 minutes for him to fix our dryer.  To which I had no choice but to reply "of course......"

So...the weekend-saving work out never happened.  And even when I was 80% good last week, I only lost 5 lbs.  I'm not looking forward to that scale tomorrow...