Potluck Temptations

Today was my boss's birthday so there was a potluck going on! Fajitas, chips and queso, pasta salad, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, Cane's chicken strips and bread, cookies and cream pie, cupcakes, etc. Temptations... they are everywhere. I ate my salad and added some of the chicken fajita meat and peppers. It was mighty good however, depressing compared to what everyone else was eating. After the potluck, belly's were bloated and full yet I was still hungry so I ate my apple. I will not succumb to these temptations when I have such a bigger picture in my mind. It isn't just about winning this contest...$10,000 would be very nice, don't get me wrong. It is more about the determination to do something that most people fail at...daily. We try and try to get focused and eat right, exercise, lose weight and how long do you typically last? A week, two? What is it that makes us cave and give in? That inner voice I was fighting with yesterday to just give up?

Not Today.

I have decided to change up my meal plans. I struggle the most with my lunch. I cannot continue to do a salad every single day. It is so boring and bland. I will take the advice from someone who has inspired me through her very own weight loss journey and start making my lunches a hot meal...something more comforting and filling. Done. I have chicken breast, (I know...yuck, but it's all I have last minute...please chicken don't have a bloody vein) in the crock-pot overnight marinating in a chile lime fajita seasoning of some sort. I don't know what I am doing but it will have to do until I can get to the store this weekend and revamp my plan.

My gym session consisted of a BodyPump class. What a great workout that class is. I upped my squat weight and almost fell over, but other than that it was a challenging session tonight. For "The Plan" today is a bicep workout and for what the BodyPump class offers it exceeds "The Plan's" workout. Mission Accomplished.

All in all, a great day. While my co-workers are laying on their couches feeling sick from their calorie in-take today, I can go to bed tonight knowing that tomorrow...I am stronger...and one day closer to my ultimate goal. WOOHOOOO!!!