Healthy Choices - A week and a half recap

Now that I am back to work and both sets of parents are back in their respective states, I can hopefully get back on track with the daily blogs. This would include my daily healthy choices where I chronicle the previous days choices in food and exercise. When I missed a day or three before, I would actually try to remember and document everything, but I missed 1 1/2 weeks this time. There is no way I'm remembering all of that (plus my schedule was all over the map as previously noted). Instead, I'll just provide some bullets of notable choices:

Food:

• At the hospital, my breakfasts turned into brunches as I could not get down to the cafeteria before 11AM. That meant either a healthy salad or a sandwich. I was surprised at how diverse a hospital salad bar could be. I ate beets, peas, chickpeas, hard boiled eggs, chicken in addition to the normal lettuce, onion, etc...If I grabbed lunch, the meal was the same.
• Funny note: Carolyn's parents know that I am trying to lose weight. So what do they bring me in the hospital? A pretzel dog and large Baskin-Robbins Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Milkshake. I mean...c'mon! I kind of understand...if you're bringing comfort food to your daughter and son-in-law, it's always better to go with a milkshake than a head of lettuce. If you're going to bring the shake, make it a small. If you're going to bring a pretzel, just bring a pretzel...not a pretzel wrapped hotdog. Full disclosure: I drank the shake (very tasty!), but kept the dog at bay.
• Post hospital: Back on the Kashi Cereal / Oatmeal train for breakfasts. Cold cuts on wheat with lettuce and onion for lunches. Chicken and vegetables for dinners.
• Notable bad choice exceptions: Got Moe's Burritos for dinner one night. Had an actual regular coke with Moe's as well. Popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate the newest addition (not good for me, but worth it). Drinking beers with Dad since he's been in town. Had 2 Nathan's hot dogs (another weakness) and a hamburger. Went out to dinner at a local Chinese restaurant and had a little more than my fill of dumplings, noodles, and wantons.

Exercise:

• In anticipation of being in the hospital, I got my 3 gym days in earlier in the birth week. Once in the hospital, there wasn't an opportunity to really exercise (not that I had any desire to).
• Post hospital: I pulled out the old mountain bike and biked around Lansdale for over and hour on 2 separate occasions. Saw parts of my town that I did not know about and biked on roads that were probably more high traffic than I would have liked. Felt awesome though...Hopefully I'll be able to do that more often with the summer upon us.

So I tried to keep on track on the whole and I managed to lose 6 lbs over these past 2 weigh-ins. Now I can get back to the one a day journaling that everyone loves so much.