A Stupid Pint of Ice-Cream
by Bill Ivory Larson on Feb.25, 2010, under My Daily Weight Loss Blog
You ever just have one of those days? One of those days you just wake up and “feel” you shouldn’t get out of bed? Yesterday was like that for me, tailor made for a pint of Haagen-Dazs strawberry ice-cream and an ice-cold bottle of Coke (well, two of them). I am so glad I worked out to help counter-act that bit of culinary indiscretion. It also helped I had a Lean Cuisine mac & cheese for lunch and healthier small soup and low-cal flatbread as my dinner.
But no matter how I slice it I didn’t eat well yesterday and I should have. Maybe then I wouldn’t have gained the pound my BFF electronic scale told me I did.
Grrrrrr. I know I will work it off but I need to be smarter. I don’t know why I stress eat but I do. It is one of my triggers. It is one of my downfalls. I use stress as a justification to put food/pop into my gullet and I shouldn’t. But I have been on my weight loss journey long enough now, though, to know what I can do about it.
Get right back up and get my ass to the gym to work out. Not eat badly today. Lay off the Coca-Cola. That’s what I will do. Thankfully I am still within my Battle of the Final Ten so I am OK there. But one of these days I will be reporting that I have conquered those final damn ten pounds and have gotten back to my goal weight.
Today is going to be better. I just know it. Like I’ve said and will always maintain – stumbling blocks will always happen on any weight loss journey. I am no exception. These stumbling blocks are as sure as death and taxes. But that’s OK. They are only in the mind and are only permanent of you make them so.
See, I have to give myself a pep-talk every now and then, too.
And before the day starts I just have to say a very sincere THANK YOU for following my journey with me. There are a lot of you out there who write me and it helps knowing you guys are out there, too, offering support to this all-too-human guy who struggles with weight just like you.
Being human is all I can be but there ain’t enough ice-cream in the world to ever make me want to give up that kind of support, and I hope I help you, too.
