Still staying away from the Goodies...

Last Thursday I went to Walmart to pick up my $14 golf pants and before I left, I made an impulse buy of those mini Halloween chocolate bars. Of which, I ate half on Thursday night and the balance as my dinner on Friday.

How things have changed for the better. I'm now on day 2.5 of my 20 day eating healthy challenge and I've been successful so far. No chocolate, no candy, no junk food and no eating anything past 8 pm. I also haven't had a beer in 2 weeks, which is even more remarkable. That's like Popeye without his spinach.

Last night I couldn't wait until morning to eat breakfast. I was even thinking about what I was going to have as I was trying to fall asleep. Instead of counting sheep, there was pancakes and waffles and omelets floating above my head. Then it turns out that when I woke up this morning, I wasn't that hungry. I actually ended up forcing myself to have an unexciting bowl of oatmeal with some toast. What a let down.

An upside is that after only 2 days of torture, my pants are already fitting better. Not drinking beer has also helped. Had I not stopped drinking beer for the last couple of weeks I'd be up at least 5 lbs more than I am now. It's just intuitive, I averted disaster, I can feel it.

I had a good swim just before lunch today. I swam a little earlier than I normally do because I had a full afternoon of meetings. I thought the pool would be empty but I was wrong. The lanes were full with stay at home moms. Then right at noon, they left and the pool was empty. Mental note, don't swim before noon.

I did speed work and on my 12th and final 100 meters of one set I was able to do a 1:37. I was happy with that. I was also looking forward to riding my bike tonight, but my last meeting of the day didn't end until almost 6 pm and it was already getting dark out. So rather than risk bodily injury with a car or wild animal, I pushed it into tomorrow just to be safe. Although, according to the weather forecast my ride will probably be in the rain.

Since I've gotten home from work, I can't tell you how many times I've opened the fridge and pantry just out of habit. Even after I ate a full dinner, five minutes later I was back in the pantry. I'd look at the food and would be ready to grab it and then talk myself out of it.

My internal dialogue goes something like this "yum, taco chips", "nope can't have them - stop", "yum, almonds, there good for you right?", "no, you don't need them, you just ate dinner - now close the damn pantry door - you can do this, you can do this". I then close the door and 10 minutes later I open the door and the dialog begins all over again. Ugh, this is hard.

Today's mantra......17.5 more days to go, 17.5 more days to go, 17.5 more days to go.

Speed Swim - 1:11:33 / 3000 meters