Happy Saturday! Today started out rainy, and apparently stormy around 3am, according to a couple friends and my mom, but I slept right through it. Other than doing my normal Saturday laundry I was being pretty lazy. My eyes felt puffy and achy early in the afternoon so I never got started sanding and scraping my kitchen trim again. I did however try cucumber slices on my eyes like you always see on tv. That does NOT work. In fact it made my eyes burn so I turned to a cold washcloth instead. Maybe I cut the slices too thick? Either way the cold water was MUCH BETTER!
So I piddled around the house all afternoon and just felt kind of blah. I realized that I knew exactly why I was feeling like this, all those brownies and fudge sauce and other indulgences from my birthday celebrations. I ate the remaining brownies with fudge sauce for breakfast with a big glass of milk. I know but don't judge, it was skim! So the longer I sat around the more guilty I felt about all that I had eaten. That made me decide to head down to the lake again since it had quit raining and walk at least one lap around. Even if I strolled around it would be better than nothing and I would cover 2 miles.
Turns out the park wasn't that crowded since it was still cloudy and rainy looking. I started out slow, then started speeding up the further I went. Major thanks to Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Jason Aldean, the 70s Disco, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, and yes, as much as I hate to admit it, even Colt Ford for helping me get up to full speed and into "the zone". At the end of lap 1 I decided to keep going, then at the end of that lap I was still in "the zone" so I kept going. I made it around 3 times, 6 MILES total! I was in disbelief that I made it that far. I stayed in the zone until 1/4 way through that 3rd lap, which is the point that one of the white geese decided to jump out at me. The freakin thing chased me WAY off of the walkway path. I know the people behind me were laughing because I was too. I was trying to figure out if I had enough energy to run away from it if it started chasing me. It was headed towards me with it's neck out stretched and was honking at me! Quick flashes of lying face down in the mud with a goose biting me were going through my head! Luckily it lost interest before I ran into the trees! Slowly I got back up to speed again and I even felt good enough to try a little jogging on the lap 3 before I began my cool down.
I came home and fixed a spinach salad as my main dish with a side of salsa chicken. When I got up from the chair my body was screaming at me so I went ahead and took a long hot shower. I suspect that I may have to spend the night on the sofa because I am not sure I will be able to move when it's bed time!
The moral of the story is that uncontrolled eating of high fat/sugary food after trying to eat right makes you feel miserable both physically and mentally but you can overcome it when you do have weak moments. We all struggle with temptations and slip up from time to time but the key is to realize what you have done and figure out what triggered it so that you can work through the weakness. Then get yourself back on track with your next meal and scheduled exercise time. Don't let it drag you down and back into the same rut you used to be in that got you to that low point. That's the end of my lesson for today :)
Well, I guess I'm going to try to get up and get some Crystal Light lemonade if I can make it to the kitchen! Have a great night everybody!
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