It’s all up to me

This weekend will be a good test of my new resolve.  Tonight my hubby and I are going to be able to go out BY OURSELVES!!  I don’t know exactly what we’re going to do b/c he’s actually not feeling well.  Wednesday he woke up with a full body rash, the dermatologist said it’s a virus.  Then yesterday he started feeling really achy in his joints.  We looked it up and the 1st thing that popped up was West Nile Virus.  Yikes!  I’m sure that’s not it, but wouldn’t it be our luck to have that happen?  Anyway, I think at the minimum we’re going to go out to dinner and maybe catch a movie.  Dinner I have covered, we’re going to this Japanese place that has healthy options.  And if we go to the movie I’ll bring along some almonds if I feel like I need to snack, but plan to just chew gum.  I did my toughest weight workout this morning (the TJ weighted workout, as well as 48 minutes of walking and 10 minutes of abs on the ball) . 

Tomorrow is going to be tricky, I think it’s going to be my schedule day off from exercise.  Hubby and older son have baseball in the am and with him not feeling well I don’t know if he’ll get up early enough for me to workout and shower before he leaves.  When they get home, we have a nurse coming to watch the baby so we can hang out w/our older son for a while.  We’ll go out to lunch (I will have a grilled chicken salad) and then go bowling or something like that.  But I will have to be very conscious with my food choices b/c when I don’t exercise I tend to go off course.  I’m going to use the fact that I weigh in on Sunday as motivation to stick to the plan.

Here are some more quotes/ideas from my new fav. book.

• She was talking about eating the same meal for lunch for 6 months.  It really stuck a chord w/me b/c I tend to eat the same foods over and over.  “I needed food to be boring.  Food had been my major source of entertainment for twenty-nine years, and it had practically ruined my life…For now, just understand that I had to break the power that food held over my life.  I needed to start thinking of food as fuel, not fun.  Eating the same sandwich every day wasn’t depressing at all.  It gave me great pleasure to eat with discipline.”
• “I was replacing an old source of pleasure with one that fit my new life.  The pleasure of celebrating milestones was taking the place once reserved for food.”
• “Few pleasures in life can compete with dropping your big old clothes at Goodwill and buying new, smaller outfits.”
• When talking about being unhappy with diet/exercise she asked herself, “Chantel, how unhappy are you fat?  If you cheat now, you’ve gotta stay fat another day.”

Progress toward fitness goal: 8/250