Monday Morning Retrospect

I took a lot of liberties with my band this weekend. They were all "ok" things to eat. I stuck to salads w/ grilled protein but I also stretched the boundaries with some fried cheese. Yes, cheese is technically a protein but I should have chosen an alternative to the fried part. I also think I ate more than 2 oz at a sitting. I'm ordering a food scale so that I can be sure about portion control. If you've never tried it? The lime-chili marinated chicken salad on the AppleBee's Weight Watchers menu is FANTASTIC!! I ate it twice this weekend. Ya know, all in all, for having to be at a baseball field for 3 days straight, Larry and I did pretty well actually. We boycotted the concession stand and ate healthy. Yeah, at first I was like, "whoa dude, we ate too much this weekend" but considering the circumstances we were faced with, I think we did rather well. We keep striving for this illusive perfection and really we should congratulate each other on making good choices.
I acknowledge that we might have eaten a bit too much of the good stuff but we did leave the junk alone.
I think part of this journey is cementing good habits while you are traveling down the scale. Things that will be a permanent part of my lifestyle. For instance: I now crave a crystal light energy water in the morning. I like it in the same cup with the same amount of ice, along with my handfull of vitamins. That's a good habit to be in. And if I can't have it, I don't function as well during the day. I really get that the water intake is paramount. And I'm to the point now where I feel like I want to really implement good habits to safe guard permanent weight loss. I am deathly afraid of being one of those people who got the surgery only to regain all the weight and end up with no options for weight loss. I don't want that to be me.
Have you ever noticed that the words think and thin are just one letter different? Interesting...