Determined To Succeed

Welcome to another Friday and another weekend filled with breaks in the routines of life.

Regular readers know I always worry about the weekends. For some reason I think having just more free time or being out and about makes me feel far more vulnerable to snacking and general bad eating. I do my best to keep in mind that weekends are just other days of the week and that I can control myself just as well. But sometimes that’s crap. When I’m out and about – at the mall especially – I just get cravings that seem uncontrollable.

Oh man, do I ever get the urge to visit Auntie Anne’s and get one of her delicious pretzels with gooey dips. Or at the food court, I could sample the foods of the continents. Who am I kidding? Sbarro, Panda Express and Subway are tempting, albeit mediocre, offerings but ones that I am oh-so-close to having when I’m there.

Or even driving down the street I pass my faves on the gauntlet – the Colornel, the Clown, The King and the Red-Haired Girl.  I feel myself drooling at the thought of a big-ass greasy burger, fries and 98-ounce Coca-Colas.

Sigh. Ok. Deep breath. I am within a hair’s breath of the battle of the final ten, the last ten pounds so I can’t be thinking about all that food stuff. I can’t. I have been asked so many times if I ever stumble on my weight loss journey. If I ever get tempted by foods and if I make mistakes and eat them and the answer is a resounding YES. Of course I do. As I say on my podcasts, I am human and I make mistakes on my own weight loss journey. But I make decisions every single day to be healthier and NOT have this or NOT have that so that I can inch ever-so-closer to re-reaching my 225-lb. goal.

So this morning, as I down my cup of coffee, I take another deep breath and head into the work of the weekend with my goal in sight. And that is such an awesome feeling. I head into this weekend tempted but strong. We are all in this together, and believe me when I tell you guys I am in it, too…

…the same temptations. The same stumbling blocks. The same pounds to lose. I DO know how you guys feel because on days like today I feel EXACTLY the same way.