Since I am working nights this week and haven't really seen my kids enough to have much to say about them, I figured today's post could be purely Game On! related, and I'll do a recap of Day #1.
You would think the beginning of the competition would be the easiest, and that it'd be no arduous feat to score a perfect score on your first day. Sadly, this was not the case for me. But let me explain!...because surely I have an explanation.
While a perfect score is 100 for any given day, I only made a 94 on Day #1. I lost 6 meal points. Day #1 also happened to be my start of 3 night shifts this week and I made an error in planning my meals. I was trying to think of the best way to squeeze in 5 meals and all the sleep I needed to get back on a night shift rotation. I woke at 10:30am, prepped some meals and at 11:30am ate my first meal: Scrambled eggs (3 whites, 1 yolk) atop a slice of whole wheat toast. Very yummy. I laid back down for a nap at 2:30pm, and didn't think I needed another meal before then because it was only 3 hours since the last meal. In fact, when my husband came in and said "Don't you need to eat again", I explained that I didn't. Poor planning on my part.
During the day I was trying to think what my "day" needed to be when I was working night shift. In the end, the best thing I could come up with was to always have my days run midnight to midnight. Hence, I missed a meal. I ate another meal before work around 5pm (1/2 a grilled chicken breast, 1/2 slice of cheese wrapped with spinach and olive oil inside a whole wheat tortilla). At 7:45p I had meal #3 (two hard boiled egg whites and 1 yolk with a peach) and dinner at 10:45p was brown rice stir-fry with scrambled egg whites, cabbage, zucchini, broccoli and olive oil. If you're keeping track, that makes 4 meals for the day. Not 5. Darn! My first failure!
The rest of my points were much easier to come by. I got in my 3 liters of water much easier than I had thought it would be. I took a break after dinner and walked the stairs for 20 minutes to get in my exercise before midnight (but 4 1/2 trips up and down the stairs had me sweating far more than I would have liked when I had to go back to work). I had already done my blog post and communication and I survived the day with not a drop of Red Bull.
So, I will still count Day #1 as a success, even though it was not a perfect success. The lapses in judgement are supposed to teach you, as they taught me. Today will be a perfect day. And hopefully, so will every other day too :).
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