Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Maintaining lost weight is hard. Pick your hard.

Today I picked: Losing weight.

Last two days have been hit or miss, but today was definitely back on track.

Usual breakfast, went to the mall to check out the new iPads and window shop. Mike treated me to Noodle's & Co for lunch, had Pad Thai. I kept debating whether to get the mac and cheese, then realized that I didn't really want it. I was trying to sabotage myself. So I got the small bowl of the lower calorie dish and it was exactly what I wanted.

Small granola bar as an afternoon snack and homemade Hamburger Mac for dinner. The hamburger make did involve some cheese munching during the making, but I stopped myself before I hit the 'why bother' point and just ate all the rest of the cheddar block. So that's progress. And I had a big salad before eating my entree, thus filling me up and not going after a second helping.

Hard elliptical workout - which is a bit of an oxymoron for me lately. I did the XTR program which prompts you to switch forward pedaling and backward every minute. That kept me from ever settling into a comfortable pace and made it challenging. For once I was actually really ready to be done with it, when usually on the elliptical it's more of a "I'm done now? Okay whatever..." kind of thing.

Mike took Rachel to the Aquarium today. Spencer is scared of the fish, so we don't go very often. When Mike wanted to have some quality time with her it seemed like a logical place to go. Spencer and I stayed home and played Mario Kart Wii. Then we worked on a puzzle magazine together while I made dinner. In the evening we played Uno, and I taught them Snap and Crazy Eights with a regular deck of cards. I'd forgotten how hard it is to distinguish between K, Q, and J when you've never seen them before. But they picked it up pretty quickly. At Snap, I turned it into three players, so I could teach them by example and I made them call out each card that they flipped over. I think this was really good for Spencer because he has a lot of trouble finding the words to answer questions when he's put on the spot. So forcing him to quickly name each card was a challenge that he rose to admirably. Also, the paying attention to the dropped card and if it matched another was a challenge too. Rachel had trouble remembering to name her cards, but that was because she was busy scouring to see if there was a match. She called out snap before I did lol.

Pretty good day today.