celebrations and temptations all around ..

Been a bit since I posted ..

wanted to celebrate a few things .. but also be flat out honest about today which was a terrible, horrible, no good very bad eating day (can you tell I'm a teacher?)

Had my first week without a weight loss which fell of course on Easter weekend ..I stayed the same though so that's exciting..  I'm feeling good anyways phyically and know the lifestyle changes are good ones.

Celebrations :
Celebration section #1 ... don't even need milk or sugar in my tea anymore, just been going for black.
decreased my 1/2 hot chocolate, 1/2 coffee to 1/3 hot chocolate .. however apparently the Timmies people looked at my EA who ordered it for me funny...they don't have a 1/3 button so hopefully soon I can go for black. I know coffee isn't even all that good for you anyways but I feel in my job (just to keep me awake) it's not easy to cut out (I do about 4-5 cups a week). Thoughts and comments on coffee would be appreciated ...

Celebration #2 ....people are noticing my weight loss. For some reason the outfit I wore the other day people just began commenting which was really flattering to hear. I need to remember how great that feels next time I'm tempted by unhealthy food. I can also fit into an old pair of my favourite jeans! Hurray!

Celebration #3 .... Nick had the boys over for hockey .. and they ordered a party size pizza .. pizza is my UNBELIEVABLE weakness. What made it worse was that I hadn't eaten in awhile. I chose to make myself a spinach salad instead of the pizza. I felt so good about my decision afterwards even though the smell of the pizza was killing me! What was even better was Michele was over too and she was trying to resist and we both made a healthier choice so I"m proud of both of us! I didn't feel deprived, in fact I felt quite satisfied.

Now for the truth. I messed up today.... eat clean went out the window ... I'm at a hotel for a conference tomorrow in Kitchener. My friend and co worker Jane and  went to Montanas and shared sweet potato fries, and I had a whole wheat quesidalla .... and I had about 4 cookies after school that the after school program offered me. Not great choices ... and I actually felt kinda gross after my after school "snack" and dinner out.
Tosca says if you mess up not to let it ruin the rest of your day .. today I think I let the cookies after school give me permission to jump off the healthy eating band wagon. Tomorrow is another day and although breakfast and lunch is provided I'm going to try and focus on clean eating as much as possible. I'll let you know how it goes.

This post is to offically declare my celebrations but also declare that yes I made some mistakes today but I felt the effects (stomach didn't think it was a good idea).
Moral of the story .. I will probably still do it again (not going to lie to myself) .. but at least I have some motivation and evidence that my body felt gross afterwards and it's not something I ever want to resort back to on a daily basis!!