Busy weekend with family

This weekend Andy's dad and his girlfriend Claudia were in town for visit and to go to the Nascar Championship race.

Again since I knew were were going to be busy and not eating the best, I was really focused on eating well on Thursday, Friday and Saturday during the day. Saturday night we made dinner for them. I made some slow cooker pork with apples and onions, roasted sweet potatoes and grilled broccoli. It was a delicious dinner that was also full of power foods! Saturday night we went to see James Taylor. I am not super familiar with James Taylor but know a number of songs. It was a great show! He told some stories  and played for almost 3 hours.

Sunday I got to go to my first Nascar race. It was super exciting. First we stopped at the farmers market to show Mike and Claudia where we got engaged. We also introduced them to out new favorite coffee spot Kay Rico Coffee. They roast the beans the night before and grind them fresh. It is such good coffee, I have made it one of my weekly treats. Again, I planned the food. We had burgers, turkey burgers, pineapple salsa, hummus, crackers cheese and a kale salad. I tried to stick with foods that everyone would enjoy but were also healthy choices. I chose to eat a turkey burger with no bun, topped with jalapeno pepper jack cheese and pineapple salsa. I also munched on some kale salad and hummus with crackers. After we ate, we walked over to the race track. We had parked basically as far away from our seats as possible. It felt great to walk after eating lunch.  Then we got to climb up all the steps to our seats.  This was the first time that Nascar did a tournament style championship. Everyone was curious how this race would go. It was really exciting because the 4 drivers that could win all raced hard. They stayed in the top 10 for the majority of the race.

Andy and I at Homestead Nascar race!

Myself, Andy, Mike Short and Claudia!

We were all pretty beat after the race so we called it a day. On Monday I went to work and Andy showed Mike and Claudia the house we are buying. For dinner we went to a seafood restaurant on the intercostal. I got some peel and eat shrimp and grilled asparagus. It was perfect for dinner. The rest of the week was pretty run of the mill. Although I did get my jawbone and started playing around with that on Wednesday. My weigh in was Wednesday and I was anxious to see if I made progress towards getting to my goal by Thanksgiving week. I couldn't make it to my normal Wednesday night meeting, so I went Thursday night instead.  I lost 0.4lbs, which brings my total weight loss to 6.6 pounds. Small steps are better than nothing!!!

Still in the downward path!!!

Big exciting news coming next week....... Stay tuned!!