Week 5

Week 5:    July 6, 2011

Weight:              178.1
Week Loss:           2.5

Cumulative Loss:  13.5

Combined, Team Mintz has now lost about 25 lbs.  That's a little more than Jade weighs right now, and a touch less than one of our dogs.   Go team go!

This past week we were confronted with a challenge.  It was our friend Don's birthday and a restaurant was more-or-less randomly chosen for the celebratory dinner.  The sign outside the restaurant reads "BBQ and Comfort Food".

Uh-Oh.

This place did not have baked potatoes as a side dish.  Fried potato dishes: 5.  Baked: 0.

I KNOW, right?

EVERYTHING was fried.  Appetizer? Fried Pickles.  Dessert? Fried Oreos.  I kid you not.  There must have been about 100 deep fryers in the kitchen.

So yes, we felt we were in trouble.  We ended up splitting a meal: a 10 oz steak, with 2 sides of corn on the cob, and endless salad bar for the both of us.  So we were good.  Now what we WANTED to order was a rack of ribs for him and a chicken pot pie for me, maybe with some of those sweet corn fritters for an appetizer... mmm....

Rats.  Now I'm hungry.  *Er.  Hungry-ER.

But I'm proud of both of us for resisting temptation and staying good.  We have a loss to show for it this week, so I feel well rewarded.

We even got to eat some ice cream on the Fourth.  Granted, it was a junior-sized cup of low-fat soft serve from Carvel, but it was still ice cream.  And it was awesome.