Well today ends two weeks on this 17 Day Diet plan. However, today is also the day I had to make a choice to cheat yet again. It isn’t a bad thing. Not in my book at least. Today we celebrated my brother’s birthday with all of our family. I had called ahead yesterday and ask dad what he would be cooking. He told me pot roast, creamed potatoes, biscuits, gravy, broccoli & cheese, and pinto beans. Ok that means he isn’t planning to cook anything that I can eat but the broccoli but I really don’t need the cheese. So I asked him was he making a cake or did he want me to do that and he told me that he hadn’t gotten one and I could do that. Ok. I can do that too. So I talked with Kevin and said you know we are just going to have to plan to eat lunch tomorrow at dads and suck it up. I don’t want to offend him especially with it being Ray’s birthday lunch. So even though I didn’t stick to the diet during lunch today – that was the plan. I am ok with that.
So this morning I got up and fixed Kevin, Jesse and I eggs before church. I had already chopped up a bag of apples to eat during the fellowship time at church (rather than donuts). After getting home from church and before going to dad’s house I decided to eat my other fruit and a yogurt so that I would not be starving when I got there. Then at lunch I eat a little of everything. All that stuff listed above I got a few spoons of as well as a second biscuit. Kevin tried to stop me at the second biscuit, but I am sorry my dad is the best biscuit maker ever! It wasn’t about the fact that I haven’t had bread in two weeks; it was truly about my dad’s biscuits. Yum. I also eat a small piece of cake. As I said earlier even though it wasn’t on the diet – today it was in my plan so I am ok with that.
Tonight we had revival at church. We had choir practice and then family night dinner and then revival. Sam and I went to choir practice and then when it came time for dinner I decided that I could not handle another buffet so I decided to go to subway for a salad. I also grabbed a yogurt at the grocery store and headed back to church. Then I went in with everyone else and ate. I am sure I looked funny to some, odd to others and like a complete diet nerd to a few! I am alright with that too. They don’t have to step on the scales tomorrow and see what I weight. They don’t have to sit in my seat tonight and answer the nagging questions that would be bothering me right now either. Like – “did I have to eat all that?”, “did I need each of those desserts?”, “why do I even bother trying to diet when I eat like that?” You know the questions of regret you have when you have blown it again. So I will take a few odd stares and a couple of silly questions by my friends rather than answer those hard questions I would ask myself later when I came home or tomorrow when I stepped on the scale.
Right now I am roasting some veggies to snack on and have to eat tomorrow and other then what I have listed that is what I have eaten today. I did no exercise today and that is completely normal. I take that Sunday is a day of rest seriously & almost every Sunday and I come home and take a long Sunday afternoon nap. I would like to get a walk in sometimes but if I don’t I am ok with that too.
I hope that your Sunday has been a great one. I hope that you too are able to set where you are and be proud of the choices you made today. If not then tomorrow is a new day and His mercies are new every morning! Don’t let bad choices turn into bad habits that turn into a lifetime of regret. Choice today Whom you will serve and then live according to that choice! As for me and my household we choose the LORD! God Bless!
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