Last night Linnea and I attended a barbecue party with a bunch of friends. Did I mention we did it? What did we do? We didn’t break our diet! At a barbecue. A barbecue with sausage, pulled pork, and the softest M&M sugar cookies I’ve ever seen. You can say it was quite a feat.

Like. A. Huge. Feat.

We haven’t done something like this all summer long, and we certainly had plenty of opportunities. We only had 1 day notice too. Luckily, for some odd reason, we were more determined this time. The night before we went to Sam’s Club and bought a big pack of boneless/skinless chicken breasts, and marinated them in a really yummy Italian marinade (pack of Italian dressing seasoning, lemon juice, oil). Everyone raved about the marinade. We raved because we didn’t cheat. I ate two grilled chicken sandwiches (on wheat rolls) with some green pepper, grapes, and two Coors Lights. That was a total of 13 WW points. I had 13 WW points left for Friday when we showed up to the barbecue. That’s right. Success. Luckily, I also still had a bunch of flex points (35 points to use whenever during the week) so I even ate an ice cream (light) sundae when I got home.

This was so huge I’ll probably get back on the Wii Fit soon. I’ll keep you posted.

We’ll see what happens. I’m hoping my renewed desire to write about it will help me stop being such a fatso.

OK, back to me, because don’t forget, I rock and a half. I did 30 minutes on the elliptical before lunch on Thursday, followed up by some Mexican for lunch. That was Linnea’s fault. I didn’t feel bad, even after the unnecessary chips ‘n salsa and Corona Light, because I worked out. Then, Friday afternoon I played basketball. Basketball has to be the most energy consuming thing I do. It’s like my arms have liquid sleeves on them (I know, it’s gross, but it allows me to slip off my defender and rock and a half the basket with my impecable mid-range touch). THEN, I golfed 9 holes this morning. Not only did I golf these holes, but I walked them, carrying my quite heavy golf bag. I used to walk all the time, which was never a problem. The 3 workouts in a row must have done me in because I was seriously dragging out there. I started out playing really well (for me, bogey golf), but I got so worn out I quintuple bogeyed a hole (3 shots in the same bunker). Ouch. Definitely didn’t rock and a half that. Anyway, I scored a free brat (wasn’t cheating due to my extra WW points for working out), but then Linnea and I picked up a “take and bake” pizza from Sam’s Club, so we cheated after all today. Oh well. I’m not too worried about it since the only cheating we did was the pizza for dinner. Everything else was within the usual points.

Finally, to wrap up with some business. It has come to my attention that certain people think they shouldn’t sign up for fatsoforum.com because they’re not a fatso. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, non-fatsos are extremely important to the success of all the fatsos, so please register and post something!!!

Please sign up for my forum, I need help not cheating! Linnea and I went to Chili’s last night. While we did cheat, we only half-cheated, which is a big step for us eating out. We both got something with grilled chicken, but then one of us got fries and the other corn as a side, and we split them. Oh, and Louis ate some fries too! BTW, if you know me and don’t have access to Louis’ blog (and would like it…) let me know.

Yesterday I avoided a HUGE temptation. Linnea and I met at TGI Friday’s for lunch, because I really didn’t want to get Subway. I’m kind of Subway Clubbed out. Anyway, I really wanted a burger when I got there (with fries, of course). Instead I stayed strong and ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, with brocolli. I don’t think I’ve ever ordered brocolli at a restaurant before. It sucked, but whatever, I didn’t cheat, and that’s what’s important.

fatsoforum.com is live.

Please post!

Do you like how I waited until I could talk about working out before mentioning how I cheated yesterday? It was a special occasion, so it wasn’t like I just cheated out of the blue. A few of us in the lab were helping a Chinese visitor (agricultural engineer) perform some apple picking experiments, so he took us out for a Chinese lunch. You could say we ordered A LOT of stuff, and I felt like trying it all since I’d only had one of the dishes before (besides the rice…). Once I tried it all I knew I was already in trouble, so I just didn’t worry about it anymore. Oh well. I worked out today.

Forum coming soon!

To business. I’m stupid. I didn’t realize that after purchasing my new domain I had to actually go into a separate part of my hosting control panel and choose to “host a new domain.” I assumed it would just happen as easy as the first one they set up for me. I could have probably gotten it set up last weekend. Oh well. It’ll get set up eventually. Hopefully this weekend. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to have a “home” page or just a forum. Everyone is lame and not giving me advice on the matter. You all suck, I hope you’re more interactive in the forum. That’s the whole point of a forum. Duh.

I was going to add some advice, but I better go. I just did the thing where you half fall asleep and your hand falls on some keys and totally messes up what you were typing. Don’t worry, I think I fixed it all.

I know, it sounds really bad, but honeslty, if I wasn’t on my diet and feeling really bad about eating all that, I would have eaten A LOT more ribs, and more almonds, and more hohos. I thought I handeled the situation decently well. I still cheated less than Linnea yesterday . I actually still had 23 of my 35 weekly flex points left as of yesterday, so if I actually counted everything I’d probably be fine right now. Unfortunately, we’re going to brunch with Linnea’s grandma. Ouch. That’s gonna hurt. She’s making us brunch, so I can’t exactly pick a healthy option on the menu. Oh well, it’s still a MUCH better week than previous ones.

I’m just waiting for fatsoforum.com to “propogate” through the net so that it actually works, then my awesome fatso forum will be up and running! I can’t wait, it was my fear of posting this that kept me from doing worse yesterday, so my whole public accountability strategy has worked so far!