Challenge accepted!

Hello All!

Don't you find it frustrating when you think that you have everything worked out and then something comes along to mess it all up? That is what almost happened if it wasn't for my wonderful wife.

The lifestyle change that we are going through has been fairly easy once we started to get over the chocolate cravings of the first couple of days. I was even talking with Candace how relatively easy this has been and don't I feel silly for not starting this earlier.  Then yesterday happened.  I won't bore everyone with the nitty gritty details but suffice it to say it was a long day filled with difficult people and difficult circumstances.  It was one of those days where after it was over, you are thankful that all your days aren't like this.

The old us would of come home and stuffed ourselves with junk food and candy to make us "feel better" from our difficult day.  And both of us were sorely tempted to do so, and I even told Candace "we should get some candy and start over again tomorrow".  At first Candace agreed with me until she said something that stopped me going out the door. She said that is what we always used to do.  That made me think about my behavior and that of an alcoholic.  I am not saying that we are addicted to junk food but if we start making excuses and doing something that we know is bad and we can "justify" it then we are acting like an addict.  It was the hardest thing that I have come across so far.

Even though I did not leave the house to get junk food, that still didn't stop our craving for something. So instead Candace came up with ideas of muffins.  Normally that is not much better, but she found a recipe for Blueberry muffins that uses Whole Wheat and just a touch of honey.  We only had one and it was delicious! I am not saying that it satisfied my junk craving but it got my mind off the idea of junk food.

I am very proud of my wonderful wife that she stood up and said no. This was the first real hurdle that we had to overcome and we cleared it.  It was hard as hell to do so, but we did it.

That being said, because or day was very long and we have a bunch of work to do, we didn't make it out on our 30 minute walk. We are planning to go out tonight though, I will let you know how that goes tomorrow.  However since our day was so long, we did a tremendous amount of walking with our heavy gear up and down monster homes yesterday. I know, I know not the same as going on a walk, but it was not like we just shot one small package and came home and watched TV all day.

It will be interesting to see how proceed during our busy season but it we can avoid junk food on a crappy day like yesterday, then I know we will be successful through the crazy season that is coming.

Until next time!!