Challenges

Did you miss me? I deliberately abstained from blogging to deal with an important issue that surfaced in my life. I have had a very rough week so I ended up deciding, "Forget eating healthy and making good choices!" and have started drinking Free McDonald's coffee and Diet Coke. I even enjoyed the most amazing Cinnabon ever!


JUST KIDDING!
I didn't. I did have a moderate amount of pizza (Shawn treated) and McDonald's but I haven't set specific boundaries in those areas yet so my conscience is clear.
If I had succumbed to my emotions and blown all the work I had done how would you have felt? Disappointed? Understanding? Relieved? Sadisticly happy???
I would have been really, really disappointed in myself so I'm glad I hung on.

I'm not the type who "forgets" to eat but I was surprised a few times to find that I had forgotten breakfast or lunch.
The food I have eaten has been "easy" food that involves little or no preparation. Kashi and Lara bars, trail mix, and the above mentioned fast food. Let's not forget dark chocolate! I brought a salad in my lunch 3 days in a row and couldn't muster up the will to eat it. Not an ideal, healthy week of eating, but considering all, not as bad as it could have been.

In fact, the more mileage I put between me and my old habits, the less I feel their pull. Every crisis I face where I don't turn to caffeine or sugar, the more I think it's going to okay. There are more challenging days ahead but if I make it through March and April intact, it's all good.

This month I am facing a week away from home as I help host a national ministers conference in the Kitchener/Waterloo area. Eating out breakfast, lunch and dinner all week long. The hotel has work-out facilities and a pool, but will I have time and energy to use them?

In April we are headed to Cancun for a well-needed vacation and it will be all-inclusive Mexican food for almost a week. Yup, it's going to be a wild ride, but I'm up to the challenge.