Daily Dose 29

223# this morning.  Did a 9am cardio combo class; it was good and I left feeling refreshed and invigorated.  Had an afternoon client for three hours then spent the afternoon cleaning the house and running errands.  I LOVE Fridays and weekends!  :)  Diet-wise, they're dangerous ground but if I have a plan, hopefully I'll stick to it.  We're going to NH on Saturday to celebrate my Moms birthday, meeting initially at a Chinese restaurant for dinner.  I really need to be careful of what I choose to eat there: I LOVE Chinese food!!  Afterwards, we're all going back to Moms house for cake & ice cream (groan) but I've already decided I'm going to have a normal sized piece w/ a reasonable serving of ice cream.  This is REAL LIFE, after all, and what I'm doing is for MY real life~ striving to eat well most of the time, with the occasional "cheat".  I hate to call it that; I'm not really cheating, because I'm allowed to eat whatever I want.  Gotta come up with another name for it...any suggestions?

Today's Eating
AM:  bowl of Kashi fiber-cereal w/ skim milk/coffee/banana yogurt w/ blueberries and flaxseed
Snack:  none
Lunch:  ham slice w/ slice provolone/2 BBQ'd chicken thighs w/o skin/1 SF fudgesicle bar
Snack:  coffee
Dinner:  veggie burger w/ grated cheddar, salsa & dollop Greek yogurt/celery w/ spicy hummus (yick)
Snack:  grape tomatoes/slice ham w/ T cream cheese, rolled up
Exercise:  1 hour cardio combo class

Here's a little excerpt from one of the blogs I follow; boy, can I relate!!  :}

 "I have become highly aware that the scale has WAY too much power over my state of mind.  I am very close to packing the scale away for a few weeks, but I'm not quite there yet. In the past, when I had been slacking off, I thought about hiding the scale as a way to avoid reality. At this point in time, I'm beyond that. But I have realized that seeing something I don't like on the scale in the morning has the potential to sway my whole day. Good sway or bad sway, that is wrong. So, if I can't get rid of this unhealthy relationship with the scale, I may have to crush it to smithereens get rid of it.

But for today--the scale remains. (Probably because I liked what I saw this morning. LOL)"

Okay, I'm outta here!  Goodnight, now!  :)