This weekend, the first since I started this journey to becoming a happier, healthier me, will prove a true test of might and will power. There is a huge festival kicking off this Saturday and that always spells disasters for those of us struggling with eating decently nutritious foods on a schedule. Funnel cakes, bratwursts, beer, soda pop, cotton candy, chili cheese fries, cheeseburgers, corndogs, and on and on. Deep fried, glistening with fat and smelling of their gloriously delicious tastes... but this year, they are not for me. Not for me, not for me. I've turned away from free pizza and free Chinese food this week... I will have to turn away from Thunder over Louisville food fares.
I will have to think constantly about the hard work I've put in with my new friend the elliptical. The work I've put in sticking to a schedule, making healthier meals for myself all this week and making sure to bring them to work. The work I've put in sweating, my heart beating furiously in my chest as I jump around, straining my muscles which I can already feel definition in. I can't throw all that away for deliciously bad food.
The schedule will be another thing to maintain. Keeping to the schedule until dinnertime will be fine. After dinner, though, then my meals will depend on my company and when and where they eat. Hopefully not too far off course. I may pack a small snack of a banana or Special K bar to tide me over before or after dinner if they eat too soon or too late after my normal dinner time. I will stay active with my company, either by urging we all go for a few walks or by having a spontaneous dance party underneath the sound of the pounding fireworks overhead. Anything to get my heart rate up in the evening to keep my metabolism boosted all day.
I will succeed at even this, the weekend hurdle. The weekend is just a set of days that don't involve going to work. That's all. Fun times with friends will not knock me off track. I just have to stay focused and not lose sight of my goal.
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