Day 11

Boy, this 30 days is going by fast. We're already one-third of the way through!

Yesterday wasn't a very structured day and that's usually when I get in trouble. I walked the dog (twice! as I mentioned in yesterday's post) and went to yoga. I got my hair cut and then did some shopping for a new media cabinet for our living room. I went to my favorite little grocery store in Vista (Frazier Farms) and decided to try out a non-dairy, no sugar ice cream type treat called Coconut Bliss. Someone from my yoga center had told me about it when I mentioned that I don't eat sugar or aspartame. This stuff is sweetened with Agave Nectar. I got home and thought it would be nice to try but stopped myself. I wasn't hungry. I would wait until I was hungry to eat it. Any other time I would have had a little anyway because I was curious. There was still a little bit of resistance about doing it too! There was this little voice deep down within me saying "Have some now!!" but I said "No, I'll have some later when I'm hungry...or maybe even after dinner." It was a weird feeling but a liberating one just the same. (By the way, it is sooooo good! I haven't eaten ice cream in quite a while so my taste buds might not be the same as everyone else's but I thought it was the bomb!)

My daily give yesterday was walking the dog for my husband after all the hard work he'd done in the yard.

My plan today is to go to yoga and do Week 2 of C25K at the gym. We have a BBQ to go to tonight. I have the potatos I'm going to use to make a potato salad (not a typical mayonnaise, cold potato salad though). I'm not feeling overly social at the moment and eating at a party can be tough for me. If I start feeling lonely because I don't have someone to talk to I turn to food and end up over-eating.

I committed in the "6 questions" post to not eating past 8pm. I've tried doing this several times and usually end up forgetting after a few days of it. It's going to take a consistent reminder for a while to keep it up. I should also commit to logging every thing I eat too but I'm not ready. I logged my food for a looong time pretty consistently and I'm kind of tired of it. I'm sure I'll go back to it again soon...just not right now.