Weekend at the Casino - not TOO bad

At home weight: 217/Last WI: 215.2

MONDAY

Well, the scale was not friendly today, but I'm not surprised either as I was at the casino all weekend. We left Friday at about noon. First of all I have to note that I love Biloxi! We usually go to Tunica for our casino trips, but the drive is killer, and flights are expensive. The drive to Biloxi was almost pleasant. It was 5 hours, all interstate. And the Beau Rivage, where we stayed, was very nice. They had sent us some comps, and we just had a great time. Friday night we went to see Chris Cagle in concert. I didn't realize how many songs of his I knew. He was a wonderful performer and we had GREAT seats - thanks Beau Rivage! I'm very impressed and surprised that he hasn't been more successful than he is. I'm definately now a big fan.

Then on Saturday at noon, we played a poker tournament. It was $130 for 4500 chips, 20 minute blinds. Not a bad structure. It makes for a 5-6 hours tournament. On Saturday there were about 105 players, so first place was a little over $4000. I did pretty well, but got myself in trouble a couple times over valuing some high pairs. I ended up busting out about 30th (which didn't pay) but I enjoyed the tourney.

Saturday night we went to the bull riding concert. The Beau Rivage bused us over to the colloseum and again we had GREAT seats. I'm so pleased with the comps this weekend. I've never been to a bull riding show, and it was lots of fun. I can't believe these guys do this. I mean those bulls are BIG and MEAN! Most of the riders looked like they were about 18 or 20. Very scary. Fortunately no one got hurt and we had a great time.

Sunday we played the noon tournament again. Again, neither of us cashed, but had a good time. After the tournament we had comps for the cafe. We waited about 30 minutes for seats then proceeded to have very poor meal. It was cajun/southern food, which I generally like. I had the gumbo to start, but it was very fishy tasting. I had the shrimp po boy for my entree and ended up just eating the shrimp as the bread was toasted too much and just plain crumbly. I had fries to, but only ate about 5 of those as they weren't very good either. Erik ordere the Seared Tuna Rare to Med Rare, and it came out well done. So overall disappointing lunch. But it was at least free.

Then we hit to road to come home about 6:00 pm. We got home just after 11:00 after hitting some rain and a little traffic. I'm a bit tired today from our busy weekend, but very pleased we went. Oh - and we lost our butts playing of course, but that's normal. :-)

Food-wise, I was ok. I did "journal" to the extent I could remember and guess points values. My biggest downfall (as usual) was the alcohol. Free drinks at the craps table makes for an uncountable number of (light!) beers. I guessed though, as I have promised to journal every day. I went way over on points, but only ate 1 meal a day with snacks and alcohol the rest of the time. Over all, it could have been worse. I made good choices at the buffet on Saturday and stuck with light beer.

Now to be back on track. This morning start off a bit bad as I had court and forgot to pick up my dry cleaning. I had the pants/shirt but now suit jacket. I went to the cleaners who were supposed to open at 8:00 and had to sit there till 8:15 when the clerk finally showed up. I had grabbed a balance bar for breakfast and had planned on a very low point day, but in my frustration I drove through Chick-fil-a and got a chicken burrito as well(8pts). So - a total of 12 pts for breakfast.

Lunch I've had at my desk, not bad - 4 pts for soup and 4 pts for popcorn. That leaves me 8 pts for tonight but I'm planning on going for a run when I get home, which will earn me about 7 more. Hopefully I can stick to just eating the 8 and use the 7 against this weekend's indulgences.

I hate going into a WI hoping for a maintain, but that might be the plan this week. I'll see how the next few days go. I seem to be very munchy today. Hopefully that will abate as the week progresses.

Tonight should be fun. Erik and I are hosting a poker game at our house about 6:30 which gives my time to run home after work and do my 5 mile run and shower before people show up. I'll probably take out some chicken or something for a light dinner.

The good news is that there is nothing going on this weekend. Erik has his son, and it's easter, so we'll probably decorate eggs or something. I'll try to get through the week and have a good OP weekend. Maybe I can forgo my thursday night indulgence if WI doesn't go too good. That would make for a long 1.5 weeks OP for a good WI next week. We'll see. We don't have plans to go out of town again until possibly mother's day so I should be able to be good for the foreseeable future.