Day Eleven

As I sit here on my couch on a Friday night a couple of thoughts come to mind.  First I really miss not going out to dinner after my Friday night workout.  It is something we have been doing for years, whether it be hibachi or Flaggs for a little bar food and some karaoke .  Yes I have been known to clear the bar out with my rendition of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" or The Commodores "Brick House" while Ryan , Abby, and Jason are jumping around wih their blow up guitars. Yes just take a second and picture this, it's almost as entertaining as Dee teaching us to boodee dance or Lauren teaching us to "WOP".

I am still not comfortable going "out" to eat on this diet, I am kind of afraid  of ordering wrong or just feeling uncomfortable not having a glass of wine before, during, and after dinner.  I know it's just what I'm used to, but I think it would just end up frustrating me and I would not have a good time.  And I don't want to pay all that money for water and unseasoned food that you can just make at home.

The second thought is the money I am saving by doing this challenge. In not going out to lunch at work, we are not going to dinner, and my weekly trip to the wine store has ceased completly.  I saw one of the servers in the small cafe in my building yesterday I had to explain why I had not been in since New Years.  I know that we spend way more money at Wegmans, but we are buying and eating all of that food instead of buying food and going out to dinner instead because it is easier.  I can't remember the last time I made breakfast, lunch, and dinner at "home" for eleven days.  Now that I say that I don't think I have ever stayed home or eaten all three meals fromome for more than two days in a row all of my adult life.  I am actually enjoying cooking and learning how to cook so many different foods.

I am hoping  that when this is done we won't be going out to so much during the week but I still will want to enjoy my Friday and Saturday nights  out.

I am looking forward to the first dinner out when his is done, we ave already started talking about it..  Our first thought is hibachi, so much for slowly transitioning foods back ino our diets. :-)