I can't believe I have been going steady and strong on the road to happiness and health for 52 days now. Edging closer and closer to two months, which will bring me closer and closer to three months, four, six, a year! It's getting harder and harder to keep track of how many days this has been going on because it's become a lifestyle, it's become the way I live, and that was the goal all along.
However, I must confess... last weekend has thrown my sleeping schedule a bit off course, and I'm struggling to get back on track. I haven't been waking up with enough time to work out in the mornings, but have been maintaining my lunch break workouts in the evenings. Tomorrow is Friday and yet another weekend will then be upon me and I will stick to my sleeping, eating, and exercising schedule through the weekend.
I have plenty of projects to keep me busy over the weekend (I'm re-decorating my bathroom as a tribute to a trip to London and Liverpool, England, I took a few years back complete with a London-themed shower curtain, framed photos from my trip, and a Mind the Gap sign. It's going to be magnificent!) and I'm also planning on going clothes shopping and maybe getting my hair cut. It's starting to become bothersome, especially when I work out and my hair gets sweaty and falls in my face, so I'm planning on getting it cut over the weekend.
Through all of that, I have to fit in at least one workout a day, and stick to eating home-made, healthy meals, at a set schedule. Otherwise everything gets thrown off track and I start slipping and sliding down that scary slope toward my bad habits. Just this week I've eaten out numerous times: once at Puerto Vallerta, and twice at Subway. And I even slid through the Arby's drive thru on the way to work one day this week because I hadn't eaten before leaving, thinking I wouldn't be hungry, and I was as soon as my car hit the highway. So I had a Grillen Chicken Salad Wheat Wrap at Arby's, and was quite proud at resisting the urge to get curly fries and a soda with it.
But it was still a bad/lazy decision to eat fast food. I have to pull the reigns back on myself, plan my meals, and stick to the plan, as I have been doing, instead of wasting money eating calorie- and fat-filled food at fast food places. NO more. I'm through with fast food, I'm sticking to my guns.
This morning for breakfast I had a yogurt and then for lunch I made a salad with grilled chicken on it. It was delicious. I had ranch dressing with it, but I just put the ranch on the side and dipped the bottom of my fork into it before spearing my food with the fork. I do that so I don't use hardly any ranch dressing and I refrain from just pouring it onto my veggies and drowning them in excess fat and calories, which is all ranch dressing is (hence it's tastiness). The salad made me feel so good and I could feel my body almost heaving a sigh of relief at getting fresh and wholesome calories and nutrients instead of stuff prepared at fast food places.
Side Note: The food I chose at the fast food places was not that horrible. Veggie subs both times at Subway and the Grilled Chicken Wheat Wrap at Arby's. I had steak fajitas at Puerto Vallerta. However, for my wallet's and body's sake, fast food is back on the no-no list and I'm avoiding it at all costs.
I have some friends possibly coming over to help me paint some picture frames and hang them in my bathroom as a sort of "project party" and I'm going to make sure I have enough food around to feed them so the urge to run to a restaurant doesn't happen. If everyone gets hungry, I could throw together something quick and easy for them to munch on. That's the plan. I'm avoiding restaurants! All it takes is a little planning to stay on track, and I am the master of planning.
So there's a little update. I haven't died. I haven't given up. Me and my goals are going strong! Viva la HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
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