Dr Mom's Wednesday Weigh In

Despite considerable back sliding - involving crisps, cake, chocolate, nuts and general snacking morning, noon and night - plus multiple visits to restaurants (last Wednesday I had meetings involving coffee, lunch, coffee and dinner) - I came out this morning at 149.4 lbs, which is just about the same as I have been for the past month. Must admit that's quite a surprise! I was fully expecting to have broken back through the 150lbs barrier.

It has also been raining pretty much continuously for the past two weeks, which means that I have only done a couple of long walks with Ruby. We were at Arasteradero yesterday for an hour but it was quite the mud bath. Today the rain has set in again.

Today I am at a conference all day, which will involve food at multiple opportunities. I plan to arrive this morning near the end of the "breakfast and networking" session so I don't eat anything. Well, anything much.

Cake Horror

This morning I had 45 minutes to kill between dropping off Little Starlet at school and getting to my volunteering gig in Mountain View. It was also perishingly cold - I even had to scrape the car before setting off from home. So the temptation to head to a cosy coffee shop was strong.

I ended up in Peet's Coffee - http://www.peets.com/ - which is a locally based chain. I had a nonfat latte, so far so good; but then I succumbed to the baked goods counter. Oh woe is me.

I now know that a slice of Peet's Reduced Fat Chocolate Cherry Cranberry Bread is worth 11 Weightwatchers points. It contains 70g of carbohydrate! And it didn't even taste that good.

I made up for it by eating a cheese sandwich for dinner.