Things are never simple...



The Beast



Many times I find that I have great plans to accomplish lots of things and then when it comes down to it I don’t even get ¼ of those things finished. Yesterday, I made a spreadsheet of things I would like to do each day in my house. Last night I went home and then had to help a child with homework along with make dinner do some laundry and so on… I didn’t accomplish one thing on that list. What I did do however was fall onto the couch with the remote at around 7pm. As I was sitting there I realized something. OK, maybe my three page list was a little ambitious. Then the guilt started regarding my workout. I skipped yesterday morning, was I going to skip last night to? If I was going to skip what was I going to blame it on, the fact that I had a really hard day at work? I didn’t find that as an acceptable excuse. I got up and threw on my shoes and hit the elliptical. Oh MY GRAVY! What was I thinking? My legs were like jelly! I had all of these grand plans to go for 30 minutes. Then reality set in and I made it a whole 15 minutes before I just about fell off the machine. Let me just say that the days of going hard for 45 minutes in a Taekwondo class are OVER! I am grateful I can walk today.

I guess I should be proud that I did SOMETHING as opposed to lying in bed and watching TV. While I’m highly disappointed that I didn’t go the full 30 minutes I’m happy I did 15. It was 15 more than I did yesterday right.

As far as food goes… I did GREAT yesterday. I had a protein shake and 2 eggs for breakfast which actually kept me full until lunch. At lunch I had a nice salad with some tuna salad on the side. I will admit I was more than ready for dinner though so I might have to watch that so I don’t start snacking the minute I walk in the door. Dinner I made some grilled chicken breast with green beans and spinach. It was delish! It might be the best chicken I’ve made in quite a while! Even the kids both ate all that was on the plate and that is shocking.

Around 11pm Mike comes home. I’m asleep in bed and he wakes me up as he is climbing in. He had his fantasy football draft last night. I wake up and look at the clock and ask him what took so long to get home and he says “I was hungry so I stopped for a burger” my instant response was “Did you bring me one?” he said no and promptly offered to go get me one. Why in the world did I ask that? NO! I don’t want a burger at 11pm! Yes, I felt hunger pains when he mentioned the food but if I would just lie back down and go back to sleep they would be gone. That is exactly what I did too! I said no and went back to sleep. I’m proud of that because I think had it been even just last week I would have said yes and sat in bed eating a burger at 11pm like there was no problem with that. I consider this a test that I passed! WooHoo!