Come on Boots!

Sunday, 4/5


After the day was over I felt like an episode of Dora the Explorer, and was singing to myself as I went to bed, "I did it! I did it! I did it, hurray!" (Oh, the evil ways that having a toddler twists your mind!)


I got through the whole day without eating any junk food! I can't tell you when the last time I accomplished that feat. Not everything I ate was as high in nutritional value as it could have been but nothing laden in sugar. And it's just small victories here that I'm looking for. I managed to accomplish this while carrying around a cookie from Tokyo Joe's in my purse (from Megan's kid meal at lunch), there being refrigerated cookie dough in my fridge (I believe 9 remaining mini cookies from my cookie fest on Friday), and that Megan and I made cookie dough last night (a recipe that I've been wanting to try for at least a month that's been hanging on my fridge from Eating Well magazine for Almond Honey cookies: no sugar, lots of honey, whole wheat flour). Megan and I will bake them up this afternoon and we'll see if I can control myself (guessing that depends on how good they are, although Jay was licking the spoon and foretelling how great they were going to taste.)


I also went to spin class, meeting my friend Suz there, at 8 am and did great. I burned just over 500 calories, which is great. I'm usually about 400. I could feel my legs, I'm guessing still from Wednesday's duathlon. And my neck and back are still hurting me - not sure what's going on there.


I did mediation in the morning and the passage that I read first was very insightful. In essence it said that you can't outrun yourself. There are people that leave jobs, marriages, towns hoping to find something better somewhere else, but things will never change until you make the change within you. I need to make the decision to eat healthy, to figure out why I slip back to poor eating habits, to keep up my training, to be happy and content. So throughout the day I would think to myself, "It's all you."


I did also manage to stay off the computer more than usual and amazingly, I finished the book I was reading. That makes me very happy, because I didn't particularly care for it and now I can move on to something else.

So since it worked so well yesterday, I'm going to do it again today: Looking forward to Monday:

- I WILL buy only healthy food at the grocery store (with the exception that I have to buy stuff for homemade ice cream to take to my in-laws for Easter and Jay's birthday cake)
- I WILL eat healthy.
- I WILL spend more time reading and housecleaning than on the computer today.
- I WILL plan my workout for the gym and give it my all.