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December 21, 2005

2 down and the rest of my life to go

So far so good. I’ve worked out two days in a row at lunch time and love it! It’s so nice to break up my long day of sitting in front of a computer completely still (aside from my pointer finger that maneuvers my track ball mouse.) And the shower feels great.

The best part is that when the day is over and I’m eager to go home, I can. I welcome the break to workout at lunch. When I worked out at the end of the day I used to dread having another obstacle in my way of getting home and was more likely to skip going to the gym.

I’ve also been eating well over the past two days, although I don’t want to jinx it. And it hasn’t been without challenges. This morning that damn muffin lady came around again. I went to her cart because I was hoping she’d have a vegetable plate. All she had that was vegetarian was the muffin plate. It comes with a huge bran muffin, grapes, apple, and cubes of cheese.

I don’t know why I bought it. I didn’t want it. I felt guilty because I had my money out and had been conversing with her. It was like I couldn’t turn back or it might hurt her feelings. Like those should matter over my waistline (or my wallet). I need to work on my assertiveness skills. I’m sure there was a way to get out of that situation while not hurting her feelings. Everybody pretty much wipes her out of her stock so somebody would have purchased the muffin.

Anywhoo, to make a long story short, I had the strength to give the food away. And last night when we went out to eat I kept things to a minimum with minimal effort.

In summation, things are going well :-) I’m going to do a mid-week weigh-in on Friday or so and I’m actually looking forward to it (as of today anyway.)

Posted by hopeful @ December 21, 2005 9:22 AM