Will Power
Hello ladies! Hope everyone is well.
Today was an alright day for me. It was going great-point and eating wise until I found out the event my job had was NOT near any resturaunt and they ordered lunch...And it was Papa John's pizza. Eek! Which is 7 points of pizza. The old me would have said forget because I was pretty hungry and would have ate 2 or 3 pieces. Nope, not the new me! I only had 1 piece and enjoyed a banana and a bottle of water. I was full and saved myself going over my points for the day. The ladies that were eating with me were going on and on about how they love pizza and stuff. I knew if I sat there conversating I'd be tempted and probably without thinking pick up another piece of pizza. So I told them "I'm going to get up and go back to work so I don't eat another piece of pizza" One girl say "You got some will power, go girl!" I smiled and took that as a compliment. Although I debated eating nothing for the rest of the day to have 2 pieces, and I had resist the craving to go back and get another piece, I'm PROUD I didn't! I ate 1 and only 1 piece of pizza. Yay me!
Today I'm struggling with my fruits and veggies. I've only had 3 and I need to more. I may eat another orange before bed with my last bottle of water...Want to know something funny? It says you have to have 5 glasses of 8 ounces of water..I've been trying to drink 5 bottles of 20 oz water. No wonder I feel bloated,lol. So 5 glasses of 8oz is 40oz which is only 2 bottle of water for me...I think I'll still keep up with my 3 a day.
I was doing fine until dinner came. My mentor/co-worker whom I adore called and asked me to pick her up from the airport since I was in the area. I got to leave work an hour early, so I did. She wanted to treat me to dinner for thanks. I was hungry and I LOVE spending time with her so I said yes. We have the greatest conversation ever and she's so cool! I found out she's expecting her first baby so I'm uber excited for her! Anyways back to the eating...We went to Pappa's Seafood and I got grilled shrimp lenguine. The bowl was HUGE!! It easily had 3 or 4 servings in it. I got a to-go bowl and put 3/4 of it in there and ate 1/4 of the bowl. I looked EVERYWHERE online to find the calorie count on it so I can figure my points but I couldn't :( To be safe I just used the rest of my points for today on it which is 7 points. I hope it wasn't more. But it was full of veggies and grilled shirmp(which is only 2 points for a cup of grilled shrimp). I'm praying this won't affect the scale on Tuesday.
Tomorrow is a new day and I'm done with today's eating. So day 2 down! My mom told me to take it day by day and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I found out that the place I have to work tomorrow DOES have a microwave, so I WILL be taking my lunch tomorrow so I will not have to eat pizza or any other non-healthy food they bring. I will not always avoid other foods but for the beginning stage I have to. Once I get more comfortable with the program I will venture out more. Today was enough venture for me this week,lol.
Still no exercise. I think I'm just going to start Monday when I'm off and the gym is open. Then I will be going 5 days a week, I'm sooo ready to be back in the gym. I now remember why I started back going to the gym. I also bought some roller blades on clearance at Tareget for my "fun" exercise day. I'm pumped but I have to find somewhere to skate because it's really hilly here. There is no concrete track so I gotta get creative.
Alright, I'm gonna take a shower and make it an early bed night. Sleep effects weight loss too. And I have a week worth of tiredness to catch up on...Maybe I'll lay on the couch and watch a movie.
Today's Quote:
"Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."