So I'm still picking up the pieces of what turned out to be an exceptionally busy time. I posted last Thursday about the victory of making the right choices in a stressful time. About taking a moment to breathe and evaluate the priorities. What I need to follow up with is that when you make it through the triumph, don't drop your guard! While I was victorious and empowered by Thursday, I epically crashed and burned on Friday.
What I said about choices still holds true. I made the choices, even if they were bad ones. While on Thursday I chose to challenge, Friday I chose to succumb to my stress. I had also allowed things into my house that should not have been there. Thursday night my daughter came home from Grandma's with some cookies they had baked. Innocent enough, right? I mean, it's not like we outlaw such things in my house, but this was a Tupperware container of cookies. Why were there so many? My dad dropped off some tired girls, and there was no explanation about the cookies. I was nervous, but thought, "It's okay. This won't bother me." Yikes...
Friday hit with a storm of chaos that put Thursday to shame. Everything was on a time schedule and I told myself I couldn't afford to take a moment to breathe, pray, and evaluate the situation. It just takes a moment, but it's always easy to forget that in the midst of the chaos. And in the midst of the stress, I had unclaimed contraband in my house, just waiting to make me "feel better." (By the way, they didn't).
So by that afternoon, I didn't have any more cookies in my house. Was it worth it? No. I kicked myself out of fat-burning and now it will take me a couple of days to ramp up my metabolism again. Did it make me feel better? No. Actually, it made me feel really sick to my stomach and much less energetic than I was. Is my weight loss blown? NO! I could stay here, and just say, "Oh well, that is that," but that's not the case anymore. The next hour is a new hour, and tomorrow is a new day. I've lost 93lbs! That's no small feat! I learn from my mistakes, remember how those choices did not have good returns, and try to avoid them in the future. I did later talk to my mother and ask her to only send one or two cookies for my daughter to eat at home. I came to find out that those cookies where supposed to be taken to school. Had I known that, I probably would not have had the fall that I did. Perhaps that's another strategy for the future-- all junk food is claimed, and send it on its way as soon as possible.
So here is to another new day! I'm drinking my water, sticking to my program approved foods, and not dwelling upon my mistakes, but taking actions against repeating them. I am a conqueror and I aim to make that optimal weight! Green BMI, here I come!
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