I was supposed to be good yesterday. I wasn’t exactly bad, but I didn’t stick to my vegetarian salad as I’d planned. In fact, I didn’t even eat a salad last night because I fell asleep before getting around to it. Because I forgot to get some salad dressing on my trip to the grocery store on Sunday, I had to stop by HEB after work because I was out after Monday’s salad. These sorts of stops are always problematic because I tend to pick up things in addition to the thing I’m out of. Anyway, in addition to the salad dressing, I got some cheese and peanut butter.

I guess I need to start more thoroughly inventorying what I need from the grocery store on the weekends. The problem is that I’ll still need to stop by HEB during the week to get fresh salad ingredients. Maybe I’ll just make sure to make the trips to the grocery store in the morning since stopping by after work tends to result in unplanned purchases. Regardless, I need to be better about planning and sticking to a plan.

This morning, I weigh slightly less than I did yesterday, but not by much. I think I’m going to have to eliminate cheese and nuts from my salads because I tend to consume too much of both, often as a snack rather than in the salads. Cheese in particular just isn’t a wise choice as it’s a high-calorie, no-fiber food that never seems to stick around as long as I intend (I seem to be able to eat a lot of cheese in one day). If I eliminate cheese and nuts from my salads, though, that’ll leave hummus as the only source of protein. I’ll have to figure out if that’s sufficient.

Next week should be a different story in terms of stress eating since I have a training class all week. I’m going to try to fast two or three days during that week to see if I can finally get a downward trend going again. (By the way, the upward tick in the snapshot from the weight loss app is due to weighing myself with my clothes on yesterday, so the drop today really isn’t as significant as it appears). We’ll see…