Day 12- Eating Healthy on the Road
A few days ago I found out that one my best friend's brothers had passed away. I knew immediately that we would be traveling to Des Moines for the funeral.
Traveling for us is often times an excuse to indulge in fast food and tasty snacks and for me especially, Diet Coke. I was a little concerned that convenience would win over healthy options. Not as concerned as to who would be packing our house up for our move in 2 weeks, but still...it was a concern. I didn't want to throw all of my hard work out the window.
The night before we left we got everything packed up and planned for a 5am departure. It was then that I thought about how I have been successful so far in this challenge. The key for me has been being prepared and planning ahead. So, I packed healthy snacks for us. Instead of having a Diet Coke, I drank Spark. It was actually very refreshing first thing in the morning. The night before, I toasted some Ezekial raisin bread and put some almond butter and sliced apples on it and stuck it in the fridge. By morning, the apples had absorbed the almond butter. It was SO delicious! I packed plenty of fruit.
It was wonderful seeing our friends, even under such sad circumstances. We celebrated the life of Mike Quijano.
With the next stage of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge, I am taking vitamins throughout the day. I am also taking something called Catalyst, which supports muscle tone and enhances strength and energy. Bring it! My biggest hope is to lean out and tone up...and of course train myself to choose healthy over unhealthy.
Surprisingly enough, these healthy options are everywhere, I think I just choose not to see them (at least I used to not see them). For example, at the breakfast buffet today I first saw the oatmeal, fruit and eggs when before I probably would have focused in on the friendly waffle guy (truly, a really nice guy) and the hasbrowns and would decide it was ok to splurge because I was traveling. But, to be honest I have chose to splurge because of this or that for over 2 years for one reason or another. My favorite thing to comfort myself with would be that I will "start eating healthy on Monday". Far too many Mondays than I can even count. I have grabbed a bag of some sort of candy at Super Target with every intention of it being the last bag of candy that I will buy...always thinking this is the LAST one!
So far, 12 days into this thing, this is what is happening. I feel REALLY good. I don't feel cheated. In fact, I feel lucky that I FINALLY broke the streak of starting to start. As much as I loved to think I would "start on Monday", I hated secretly knowing I had no intention. Now, I no longer have to get started. I HAVE started and I am not dieting. I have made a lifestyle change that feels really good.
Will I ever eat crap again? Will I ever have drinks with friends again? You better believe it. BUT, from now on I will be choosing healthy 95% of the time and when I do choose to indulge, it won't matter because it won't be a downward spiral of bad eating behavior with the intent of starting a diet on Monday.
So, all of this healthy eating and drinking (water, Spark and a new DELICIOUS meal replacement shake) inspired the "I Have to Pee" musical on our way home from Des Moines today. It was set to the tune of Billy Joel's song My Life. In fact, listening to my husband sing at the top of his lungs "I don't care anymore if you have to pee" and other similar lyrics, almost did me in. As we pulled into the Clear Lake truck stop, I let everyone know that I had to take a moment off from being motherly and it was every man for himself.
So, it is back to reality now and for once we don't have to empty the fast food wrappers out of the car. Banana peels maybe, but no fast food.
Oh yeah, as I side note since I will going out for a walk later today, I think that squirrels are far more socially acceptable than they should be. Enjoy the nice weather.
Fore more information on Advocare or my friend and Nutrition Coach Liz Blom, please visit her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lizblom.nutritionandwellness
Traveling for us is often times an excuse to indulge in fast food and tasty snacks and for me especially, Diet Coke. I was a little concerned that convenience would win over healthy options. Not as concerned as to who would be packing our house up for our move in 2 weeks, but still...it was a concern. I didn't want to throw all of my hard work out the window.
The night before we left we got everything packed up and planned for a 5am departure. It was then that I thought about how I have been successful so far in this challenge. The key for me has been being prepared and planning ahead. So, I packed healthy snacks for us. Instead of having a Diet Coke, I drank Spark. It was actually very refreshing first thing in the morning. The night before, I toasted some Ezekial raisin bread and put some almond butter and sliced apples on it and stuck it in the fridge. By morning, the apples had absorbed the almond butter. It was SO delicious! I packed plenty of fruit.
It was wonderful seeing our friends, even under such sad circumstances. We celebrated the life of Mike Quijano.
With the next stage of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge, I am taking vitamins throughout the day. I am also taking something called Catalyst, which supports muscle tone and enhances strength and energy. Bring it! My biggest hope is to lean out and tone up...and of course train myself to choose healthy over unhealthy.
Surprisingly enough, these healthy options are everywhere, I think I just choose not to see them (at least I used to not see them). For example, at the breakfast buffet today I first saw the oatmeal, fruit and eggs when before I probably would have focused in on the friendly waffle guy (truly, a really nice guy) and the hasbrowns and would decide it was ok to splurge because I was traveling. But, to be honest I have chose to splurge because of this or that for over 2 years for one reason or another. My favorite thing to comfort myself with would be that I will "start eating healthy on Monday". Far too many Mondays than I can even count. I have grabbed a bag of some sort of candy at Super Target with every intention of it being the last bag of candy that I will buy...always thinking this is the LAST one!
So far, 12 days into this thing, this is what is happening. I feel REALLY good. I don't feel cheated. In fact, I feel lucky that I FINALLY broke the streak of starting to start. As much as I loved to think I would "start on Monday", I hated secretly knowing I had no intention. Now, I no longer have to get started. I HAVE started and I am not dieting. I have made a lifestyle change that feels really good.
Will I ever eat crap again? Will I ever have drinks with friends again? You better believe it. BUT, from now on I will be choosing healthy 95% of the time and when I do choose to indulge, it won't matter because it won't be a downward spiral of bad eating behavior with the intent of starting a diet on Monday.
So, all of this healthy eating and drinking (water, Spark and a new DELICIOUS meal replacement shake) inspired the "I Have to Pee" musical on our way home from Des Moines today. It was set to the tune of Billy Joel's song My Life. In fact, listening to my husband sing at the top of his lungs "I don't care anymore if you have to pee" and other similar lyrics, almost did me in. As we pulled into the Clear Lake truck stop, I let everyone know that I had to take a moment off from being motherly and it was every man for himself.
So, it is back to reality now and for once we don't have to empty the fast food wrappers out of the car. Banana peels maybe, but no fast food.
Oh yeah, as I side note since I will going out for a walk later today, I think that squirrels are far more socially acceptable than they should be. Enjoy the nice weather.
Fore more information on Advocare or my friend and Nutrition Coach Liz Blom, please visit her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lizblom.nutritionandwellness
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