SO after doing so good all week, yesterday we headed into the city for a chocolate making session for the kids...great...I had my will power packed. I ate a salad with guac and salsa and tuna before we left so that I would be well armoured against any desire to eat out.
We arrived at our friends place and I did excellent. The kids went about eating their chocolates, melting them down and having fun. I of course had to try one chocolate pretzel in order to appease my little ones. Yummy.
Supper came and we decided on KFC. I figured that shouldn't be too bad, they ought to have a garden salad there as well as the rest of their goodies. Well they didn't. So we order a 15 piece meal for the 9 of us. I figured the temptation would be lower if there wasn't an abundance of food and I thought it needed to be rationed.
I did really well. I avoided the fatty potato salad. I avoided the cole slaw, the fries and the gravy. I had one itty bitty piece of chicken and drank a bunch of water. I was happy.
That would have all been good until it started getting late and I was getting hungry. There weren't the vegitables around to fill the void. There wasn't the fruit around to grab a snack on...but there were scads of chocolate and I had brought my cinnamon buns. Even still I managed to maintain some control and only had two more chocolates and a cinnamon buns. My cinnamon buns are made with course whole wheat and not enriched white flour, so it wasn't a complete loss, I rationalized. There was also a couple glasses of wine in there....
So it wasn't completely horrible. We spent the night and headed out in the morning with hungry children. A stop at walmart and lunch arriving with children who hadn't had brekfast yet, left us with a decision to feed the kids before the two hour drive home. There stood the glowing M.
So into Mcd's we went with me looking forward to a delicious salad that I know they have...except this location didn't serve salads...or anything remotely healthy. So A Big Xtra and a Junior chicken sandwich later I was left with a roiling stomach and a heap of regret. I avoided the pop and the french fries but it was a very small consolation when I looked at the 1000 calories that the two sandwichs consisted off.
So off into Walmart I went again and picked up Zumba and Your Shape for Kinect.
Got home tonight and quickly got through all the chores so that I could head in and start my workout. I put in Your Shape and spent the next hour going through fitness tests and some cardio workouts. The sweat was dripping, the knee was aching, the hardly used quad and hamstring on the right leg were cramping up, but I burned off a third of what I consumed at Mcd's and appeased my conscince a little.
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