Bad Choices, Good Choices

Today started off with me craving food, food, and more food. I have been craving Chinese all day long! I have an immense love for Chinese food, buffets in particular. The thoughts of food consumed my mind, for I am a quantity eater. What makes matters worse is that I am stuck in the house because of the mass snow we have been having here. If there is one thing I have learned about Indiana, it is that the weather here changes its mind faster than the mind of a female. =D

It got better for me after we went out and got active. I then went to the store to get a couple more Healthy Choice dinners, but came out with $100 of food! lol What can I say? I am a female, I love to shop. There is NOTHING that retail therapy can't fix. Well, it can't fix the dent in your wallet, of course! lol While I was there, I floated pass the bakery (WHY DO THEY PUT THE PRODUCE NEXT TO THE BAKERY?! ARRRRGGGHH!) and took a gander at the cakes, pies, DONUTS!, and such. I looked at the labels and promptly put them down. I wanted to stomp my foot and cry like a 2-year-old, I wanted those delectable, sugary sweets! But..... I just went on. I am sooooo proud of myself for not giving in.

Which brings me to my final thoughts of today: I am retraining my bad eating habits that I have had my entire life! This does NOT happen overnight! Will and tenacity only gets you so far. It's the choices you make that seals the deal. I replaced my old bad choices with new good choices when it comes to my eating habits. Is it easy? haha - NO! But I did it, and I am glad I did rather than regretting my bad choices.

I did weigh myself today. I am very uneasy to publish the number. I also took pictures of my "before" body. I will definately post these things after I lose weight. I do not like the numbers, and I do not like the way I look. That is a big part of why I am losing weight, the other being for health reasons. The key is I am doing it for myself. That is the ONLY way it will work, and that should be the only reason anyways. While at the store, I saw people who were way more overweight than I am riding scooters. Most were probably only in their 40's! That is NOT how I want to live, and I thank God I still have the ability to function on my own. If I continue to make bad eating choices, that is the road I will be traveling on. That is not what God has planned for any of us. He wants us to live full, healthy lives, but it is up to us whether that happens or not.

Ok, here goes my menu for today:

MENU

Now that I have filled your eyes with today's meanderings, I leave you with the.....


Thought of the Day
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill