The pieces of the puzzle

The past couple of days have had there ups and downs for sure, but it has mostly been pretty positive.  I found myself slipping into a couple of old bad habits and was not following the checklists in written form, but was kind of doing it from memory.  If you are considering doing this, don't it does not work...print them out and follow them. 

So it was not a huge disaster, but I have had a really bad habbit of snacking on crappy food right before I go to bed.  I have pretty much not done this at all since I have been doing tools and have made a real commitment to eat healthy and workout.  So last night I'm bored and think that I start craving some junk food.  Thankfully there is not any reall junk food in the house, but I know that fast food or a pizza is just a quick drive or a phone call away.  I decide to have a couple handfulls of almonds, that turns into a couple of more.  Here is the good news, this would usually lead to more snacking and/or the junk food option; however I was able to regognize that I really was not hungry and was simply eating out of bordom and then I remembered one of my most important personal rules..." I treat myself in a healthy manner".  Anyways train wreck avoided as I simply stopped and went to bed

Part 2:

I woke up this morning a little later than I wanted to, partially due to the Day Light Savings time stealing an hour of our weekend.  I was relaxing and seriously considering blowing off my workout that I had planned, because of the time change and the fact that they day was farther along than I had hoped.  Lame excuse, got my ass out bed and had a great workout.

 The reason I used the heading pieces of the puzzle is simply that a lot of things all seemed to come together in the last 24 hours:

1)  I made sure a friend did not drive home after drinking a bit too much last night(yesterdays topic)

2)  I stopped and recognized what was going on before I went on a little binge eating/snacking deal

3)  I dismissed my lame ass excuse and got to the gym

4)  The old law of accumulation was in full force...So back in December I started going through the motions of working out at my gym that I have been a member at for quite sometime.   In December it was a major accomplishment to get 20 minutes in on an eliptical trainer.  Over the course of the last few months I have slowly increased my effort and weekends allow me enough time to get my workouts in.  So todays workout was a big deal for me:

10 minutes on the treadmill

10 minutes stretching(never and I mean never did i used to do this)

60 minutes on the elliptical trainer doing 2 minute intervalls..2 minutes all out effort, 2 minutes recovery etc.

15 minutes with the free weights

10 minutes cool down stretching

I know I am living a much healthier and active lifestyle and that I have lost a few(probably more than a few lb's).  I also know that I have a ways to go and that I have been avoiding the scale, because I do not really want to know where I am at until I get a little farther down this road.  I am simply chosing to keep doing the best I can and not lie to myself!!!

Thanks for reading my Sunday rant, have a great day.

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