Ate At Lou And Mickey's And STILL Lost Weight

Yesterday I was at the San Diego Comic-Con with my son, Stuart, and his friend Dan. I'll give more details about Comic-Con in another post, but it was fun. I started the day with Isagenix Cleanse For Life and then a little later I had my Isagenix Isalean Chocolate Shake mixed with a banana. I had one Isagenix Snacks! (Chocolate) a couple hours later and I wasn't really hungry when Stuart texted me near the end of Danny Elfman's panel.

One thing that stuck with me from Danny Elfman's question and answer session is this:

Deadlines Have Value

He said that if it weren't for deadlines he would still be working on the soundtrack to "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" which came out in 1985!

After Stuart and Dan found me outside Room 6 near Mrs. Field's cookies (which didn't even tempt me - thanks, Isagenix!) we walked out into the sunlight and into the Gaslamp District where we sat down at Lou & Mickey's for lunch. My niece, Samantha, used to work here and both the hostess remembered her and Brady, our server, did as well. I hadn't counted on an appetizer, but Stuart ordered the cheese with marinara sauce and it looked a little odd and a little big when it came because it didn't match the mental picture of cheese sticks that I had previously enjoyed. Lou & Mickey's version of what amounts to fried cheese has the cheese inside a small loaf. At least that's the way it appeared to me - and it was delicious! I had chicken caesar salad and you could really taste how good the chicken was. I realized when I started on the salad that I could probably get by with a quarter of it. I decided to enjoy it all as my dinner was going to be an Isagenix shake. I just started on the two-shake regimen a couple days ago. I guess you could say that I worked my way up to it from my one-shake-a-day first week or so and I'm pretty amazed that I can curb my hunger no problem. (Maybe giving up coffee helps with that?)

About 5:30 I had Isagenix Want More Energy? powder mixed with water. We walked a lot yesterday as the San Diego Convention Center is a big place, especially when you walk through the Marriot, too. After we took the trolley back to Old Town I drove us home and somewhere on the trip home I realized that it had been a long day and with the lost sleep recently from our heat wave (I know that some of you don't think 90+ is a big deal, but it makes it tough for me to sleep.), I was just about ready for bed when we got home a little after 8.

That's when I had my 2nd shake of the day and put bedding together for our sister-in-law and her youngest son who were to spend the night on the floor sharing our room. She had been pretty sick earlier and I said a prayer that this would all be all right, and after finishing what little I had to do I laid down and fell asleep a little before 9! I slept 11 hours and that's the first time in a LONG time that I've done that. I did wake up a few times, but I rolled right over and went back to sleep. Some people forget the value of good sleep. Rather, some people if they aren't sleeping well and they try something like Isagenix or meditation or prayer or more exercise or WHATEVER gets them the SLEEP results they want, they tend to forget to give their strategy credit weeks or months later when they are sleeping well on a regular basis. It seems like the new normal or even like it's always been that way and when they view it that way they often feel like they can stop using the strategy (or tactics, for you military sticklers) that got them to this new and better place. I've seen that in personal development, too. But, I'm not going to do that. There's a reason Isagenix calls their product Isagenix Cleanse For Life.

Long story short (TOO LATE!), I got on the scale this morning and found out that even after that luxurious lunch at Lou & Mickey's, I'm down to 267.4 pounds. That means I'm down 8.8 pounds in 11 days!

Keep walking!