I am feeling so good and strong today! This comes as a big surprise because I woke up this morning with a sense of dread at the day to come. Fridays are stressful as we have our homeschool co-op from 10-1 and we usually go out to eat afterwards. The idea of eating out terrifies me because its so so so easy to slip up in a restaurant when confronted with all the delicious (albeit poisonous) options. To add insult to injury, we ran out of time for our usual bacon and egg breakfast so I was reduced to squeezing a packet of Lillie's almond butter onto a banana and calling it a meal. I am now carting around a little bag of snacks every where I go. If I carried a purse I would stash them in there along with my sugar free hard candy and some kleenex up my sleeve.
And tempted I was today! There is always tons of food around co-op and my Kitchen Science class is no exception. Someone brought what looked like a perfectly constructed baklava, the other cooking classes made cookies and eggrolls, and the teachers lounge had my favorite...Round Rock doughnut holes! Argh! Did I mention that my class was doing milk experiments so naturally I brought cookies to compliment the test materials?? Sometimes I marvel at how dumb I am. I could have fallen over from the scent of chocolate chip deliciousness that wafted up to greet me when I cracked open that fresh bag of Chips Ahoy! I begrudgingly pulled out my veggie chips and dehydrated apples and munched away. And you know what? Those cravings passed rather easily. And I was so bolstered by my strength at resisting them that I was able to have a healthy paleo-friendly meal at Jason's Deli. It wasn't easy to bypass the temptation of free (FREE!) ice cream because I am my father's daughter and my brain is composed of about 65% cheap-skate cells. Did I mention the ice cream is FREE? And its ice cream??? I walked out of there without so much as a lick of Lillie's cone. Major pats on my pointy little head!
As things tend to snowball INTO control just as much as they snowball OUT OF control, my day continued to get better. I was exhausted from teaching and temptation, but I hoisted my lazy ass out of the chair and put in 40 minutes of face time with my buddy Richard Simmons while Lee took Iris on a walk. We capped the day off with a delicious stir fry Lee made and now the girls are both bathed and ready for bed...a good 2 hours early! I was bummed to learn that the wine I was so looking forward to drinking during my girls' night at a friends house, the wine I was planning on cheating on this lifestyle with, is now off limits because of the raging thrush infection that continues to plague me. But I am going to drink another diet coke and pretend it has rum in it. I might even crush up some grapes and pretend they are fermented if I'm feeling sassy. Don't be jealous of the glamour, folks.
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