Here I've been feeling really good about the fact that food has not been calling me. But this afternoon I was at a friend's house, and she had put out organic corn tortilla chips. I checked the label, saw they were ok, and took 2 (serving size is 15). No problem, right? WRONG!! I kept coming back to them, and was actually stupid enough to go hang out by them! I ended up having probably about 20 chips--a good 200 calories worth! My first actual "cheat". (Hey, I made it 2 months without...)
OK, so onward. I honestly logged it into my food logs, both written and on SparkPeople, so I'm not trying to hide anything. (also a very NEW thing for me with food logs!)
The last few days have been busy, which is why I haven't journaled in a bit. Friday was a good day--I hit the gym and did 45 minutes on the treadmill. Even though I stretched afterwards, I was quite sore!! But it was well worth it. I am SO happy to be back in the gym!!Yesterday was my day off from the gym--I had the kids and it was not going to work out. But I got my exercise a different way! (see below) I woke up in the morning feeling crappy--sort of a cross between "I'm starvng" and "I feel like I'm gonna barf". I bagged the breakfast plan, and about 10:30 I nibbled on a tiny baked potato. I only ate maybe half of it. No pills, supplements, or amino acid drinks for me. After going to the chiropractor and having a mini-massage, I did feel better. So for lunch I had a small bowl of rice with my veggie-meat sauce. It seemed to set ok. By midafternoon I was feeling much better. I had some mango and nuts for my snack. Then it was time to leave for the Casting Crowns concert!!!!!! We had a nice drive up, with everyone chatting about everything. 8 of us in Amy's Suburban, and we were all pretty comfy! (we did put the 3 kids in the way back) I ate my dinner on the way--a repeat of lunch, plus an apple. We were very fortunate to get GREAT parking--Amy had reserved online--and didn't have to walk too far in the cold wind.The concert was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Totally blew me away. It was so inspiring, so amazing to be with 5000 other believers, just giving praise and worship to the Lord. We were up and dancing to the music--now THAT is exercise I can live with!! Laura wanted popcorn, so I got her some, and some water. I had maybe 1/2 cup of the popcorn, and we shared the water. (I checked, the popcorn was popped with a bit of oil, but nothing else on it--we even watched it pop!) Later she wanted ice cream, and I honestly had no desire for any.
On the way home I had my granola, with some raisins mixed in (I had to boost my calories somewhere!) We got home after midnight, so sleep was short. But I had no problem popping up out of bed this morning for church!
Today I'm happy to say I was feeling fine and back on the normal routine as far as food goes. (well, other than the tortilla chips...) I hit the gym this afternoon and did 30 minutes on the elliptical (and burned MORE than the calories I ate in chips!) and felt pretty darned good! It will be an early night, since we were all up too late last night. Bed will feel good!!!
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