Triceps, Biceps, and Quads, Oh My!

I woke up this morning very sore from lifting yesterday, but it feels so good. My triceps, biceps, quads and hamstrings are definitely feeling the burn.

Last night I went to pub trivia with friends. I had eaten well all day, and had planned on eating at the pub for dinner. I had decided not to have a drink to save money and calories, but when my friend ordered a pitcher and poured me a pint, my will power went out the window. I did have only one pint though, so that's good. I use to basically drink a pitcher when I would do trivia last year. We were there for happy hour, so I was going to order dinner off that menu. Everything was either fried or really high in calories on the happy hour menu. There were no salads, only fish and chips, chicken strips, potato nachos... So I picked, what I thought to be the best option on the happy hour menu, two pulled pork sliders. They didn't come with fries so that was a plus. And they were very yummy. I'm sure a lot of you all also find that it's hard to eat healthy and not drink cocktails when going out with friends. Happy hour is not designed for people looking to make healthy eating choices.

I weighed in this morning and had gained 1.6 lbs since last week. But I expected that with breakup food eating, ladies night drinking, and pub trivia night. I am usually really good at eating healthy for break fast and lunch, but then dinner sneaks up on me, and I make poor eating choices. I have birthday drinks with a friend tomorrow night, and I have decided that I will have club soda with lime, which will be low in calories, and less expensive for my wallet. I also have a friend coming into town on Saturday, and I think we'll be going out Saturday night so I will have to either workout more, or drink less alcohol on Saturday to balance things out.

At the moment I am making a veggie lasagna to have for dinner for the rest of the week. I'm trying to plan out my meals to try to do better this week than I did last week. Planning ahead always makes a difference for me. It's when I don't plan that I make bad choices and go off my plan.