19rhonda73's Journal

OMG, I feel pretty bad right now. I made a promise on this site this morning - in writing - to drink water, eat fruits & veggies and just make good food choices today, and I blew it by mid-day! I did pretty good for breakfast: toasted walnuts and a banana, which kept me full all morning. But when it came time for lunch, I was craving sushi. "What's wrong with sushi?" you ask. Nothing. Except I allowed myself to instead be lured to the Panda Express counter, which is about 3 feet away from the sushi cooler in the grocery store.

I rationalized it at the time because the 2 entrees, 1/2 fried rice and 1/2 lo mein was less expensive than the sushi I had in my hand. Sure, less expensive monetarily, but what about physically and emotionally? Geez. Oh, and then when I opened the styrofoam container to dig in and saw how much food there was, I told myself, "Wow! Well, I'll eat just 1/2 now and then finish the rest before art class tonight." Who was I kidding? I didn't put down that damn plastic fork until all that was left was some rice with kernels of peas and carrots.

Oh, and I drank a Hansen's soda today, ASSUMING it was darn near like drinking juice or Crystal Light. Boy, was I wrong! That can of Mandarin-Lime had 130 calories and 35g of sugar - I might as well just drank a can of Coke or Mt. Dew! Of course, my dumb @ss didn't bother to read the can until AFTER I had drunk the whole thing. Oh well, now I know better.

I blindly went about my eating business today without putting any effort into thinking about the choices with which I was presented. And now I feel like a hypocrite because of a post I wrote yesterday about making choices and because of the promise I wrote this morning. Argh! OK. Deep breath. Back on the saddle.