Salad Shmalad

I went to my weigh in a day early and my net weight loss so far is -2.5lbs since I started.  I suppose I should be happy about this.  Part of weeks 1 & 2, I was on vacation and ended gaining 2lbs by the time I got back to WW.  In light of the fact that food was a big part of my resort stay (all the food was delicious and made from scratch), +2lbs didn't sound so bad to me.  Week 3 contained Halloween and a surplus of treats due to my miscalculation of the number of trick-or-treaters to number of treats.  I'm suddenly feeling better about the 2.5lbs, but I know I was down more than that a few days ago and I'm still behind where I should be in the 3-4lb range according to my goal.  This losing weight stuff is hard.  I was under the impression that I'd have a big drop right at the beginning but not yet.

This week the kids had a few days off and unfortunately the weather has been terrible - cold and rainy.  I'm feeling kind of trapped inside the house.  To go anywhere I have to mobilize three little ones and then once we get anywhere I have to constantly do a headcount or lug my stroller (which maneuvers like those grocery carts that looks like a car).  Its so tiring.  Nonetheless, I insist that we have an activity everyday that my kids don't have school.  So yesterday we head over to a children's concert in a downpour.  I was so wet and cold.  Once inside we happened to meet up with one of my son's classmates and sit with her family.  The other mother graciously invited us to lunch with them afterwards at Friendly's.  It was awful logistically with the rain but I was happy to be out of the house and my kids were enjoying themselves.  I look at the menu and I even said "This is the perfect day for chilli," but I did not do the smart thing and order it (side note WW is very big on beans in chili and soups which I like but I think its giving my newborn gas).  Instead I decide to go for the salad.  I do recall the WW advice that anything with crispy in the name you should avoid but surely a caesar salad would be worse and by looking at the picture of the crispy chicken salad there didn't appear to be that much chicken, WRONG.  I enjoyed my "salad" with the dressing on the side BUT then I came home and looked up the nutrition info to dutifully fill out my food log.  OMG!!!  My "salad" was TWENTY FIVE POINTS!!!  Look at this unless you want continue enjoying your Friendly's meal...
http://www.friendlys.com/media/pdf/nutrition/FriendlysLunchDinnerMenu.pdf
That's like more than most women should have in a day.  Thank goodness for the those extra nursing points I have.  I'm convinced the salad did me in this week.

As for the running, it has not been going very well.  I really do enjoy exercising but its so hard to do when I can't put my newborn in the gym's babysitting yet (I think I could in another 5 weeks or so).  Friday is usually my day to exercise since my MIL comes to watch the kids but she was sick today.  I was hopeful that I could just go over to the gym tonight but my love just called and he's stuck at work again.  So another week of not hitting my targets on the running front and I'm going to do a 5k in less than 2 weeks.  The other moms I ran the last 5k with have been training, I need to improve just to keep up!  Tonight I am definitely doing my walking DVD and this weekend I am going to get at least one outside run in and finally use that 5k route that I made on Google maps.   WW meeting this week was all about getting 30 minutes of exercise in everyday.  I really wish it didn't seem so difficult.