Accountability

I'm setting my own next personal challenge - to clean up my diet.  My goal is to eat much better, through at least March 24th (HAT Run) and hopefully keep it that way beyond that (since I expect I'll feel a lot better and want to keep it up).  I eat fairly healthy throughout the week but it all goes to hell on the weekends.  I do not plan meals on the weekend which usually means getting something from a restaurant for every meal and at whatever random time we decide we are hungry.  It usually also involves lots of chocolate and sugar.

I run a lot more on the weekends as well.  This typically means I super hungry and just eat whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it.  Last weekend, this meant that after eating dinner out, my husband and I bought a pie and a loaf of bread from the bakery in the restaurant.  I ate the entire loaf of bread in a day (most in the form of cinnamon sugar toast with lots of butter)...oops!  I may or may not have made two batches of cake balls in the past two weeks as well.  Those are all gone as too.  

My breaking point was after the Mexican food this weekend.  Sunday afternoon, I woke up from a lazy Sunday afternoon nap and decided I was in the mood for Mexican food.  Yum!  After a bunch of Mexican food and cake (that I bought the previous day), I felt awful and was pretty sure I wouldn't make that mistake for awhile again.

Then, Monday came.  I had the day off work and things were going along wonderfully.  I was knocking out lots of chores and errands.  Then, it started going downhill with a trip to Jo-Ann fabrics.  I have no idea why everyone who lives in this town was buying fabric on President's day but it appears they were.  After waiting in the fabric cutting line for 20 minutes, I realized I needed something else that was sold by the yard.  I went and grabbed it and got back in an even longer line.  By the time I got up to the front of the line and told the lady I just wanted everything left on this bolt, I was informed that my hideous bright yellow denim was not $9.99/yd as it said on the tag (crossed out in black Sharpie) but that it was $12.99/yard.  It also wasn't 30% off  as the sign indicated because 'fashion denim' is apparently only 3 colors, not including this terrible yellow color that I picked up.  I didn't want to waste the hour I just spent waiting in the line so I said whatever and took the fabric.  $65 later I walked out of the store with all the supplies for what I thought was going to be a $15 project.

Not from Monday's run - this one was Saturday which was a great run, unlike Monday's!

I still had a few more errands to run and by the time I got home, I was starving and a bit pissed off.  My day off where I thought I was going to get a ton accomplished was flying by and I hadn't finished half of what I wanted to (so whiny!).  The leftover Mexican was calling my name.  I ate it and then felt terrible.  I made a few healthy meals for the week and the freezer and then set out for an easy run with the dogs.  The run was terrible due to Mexican food and chocolate sloshing around.  I'm pretty sure it's time to start eating better because I know I'll feel better in general.  Putting it out there to hold myself accountable.  Not that I won't eat a cookie if I want a cookie (that definitely doesn't work for me) but there's a better balance.