Eating Out!!

I've now finished my 3-week "stabilization" phase, with only that one big cheat last weekend. And now, today, I get to eat out in a real restaurant and order whatever I want! We're going to Blanca, a new place in Newport that's getting amazing reviews from all my lucky clients who have already had the pleasure of dining there.

I'm down to a fairly steady 127lbs (hooray!!) and a 27 1/2 inch waist... my waist shrinks a little every few days but my weight hovers around 127/128. (It's normal to fluctuate a pound or two day to day). Hopefully this all means that I'm still losing fat but starting to slowly build some muscle. I'm running a lot - miles and stairs on different days - and training with kettlebells. I'm quite sore, but I feel great!

So now my "diet" is about maintenance. It really won't be too different to how I used to eat - lots of protein and salads, and healthy carbs. The real change will be eating a lot less dairy - I love cheese and yogurt, and those will be limited, but I can live with that. And I will be more conscious of the calories in different quantities of foods - for example, I will keep measuring snacks like nuts, aware that just 1/8th of a cup is 100 calories! Same for the sunflower seeds I like to put on my salads, and the olive oil I use for dressing. Learning to measure those will really help me regulate my overall caloric intake.

I will still eat out about once a week - I live for great restaurants. If I wasn't a trainer I would want to be a food critic!