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Morning was great, as I was able to fit in these old pants and my suit jacket and it actually looked like the right size (instead of all snug!). Had a good research meeting off-campus, but when I got back on-campus, things started to spiral downward. Couple of annoying things happened--spent unnecessary time talking/dwelling over them :( Also, received more annoying bureaucratic reports to write, 32 grants to review (for later), and two huge stacks of projects to grade (god! will the work ever end!), and then starting writing exams for next week (and took way longer than anticipated)...through all this, the water bottle was sitting right next to me, but for some reason I kept putting off drinking water!! AND managed to dip into my stash of rainy-day crackers (had about 9-10 water crackers and about the same no. of some other crackers not as low in points!).
Had the right intentions on my way home, as in picked up a protein bar to tide over until I go workout. But once I came home, I thought I'd have dinner and THEN go work out! (Jeez! when does one learn re procrastination??!!). Also, wanted to get some work squared away on the computer, to feel more organized in my head, before I go work out...
Again, all these piling-up poor choices was making me not want to journal today (and just quietly slink away into tomorrow), but I am forcing myself to journal anyway--embarrasing as it is! I feel full now and still don't feel like going to work out yet..so I don't see any way to redeem today (and this fits the usual profile of a bad day immediately following a good day, i.e., some level of self-sabotage, or laziness??!).
Anyway, here's the tally:
Breakfast: cereal and soy milk (3)
Lunch: Leftover bean curd stir fry and bok choy (4)
snack: about 20 crackers or so (guessing)(10 pts?)
1 plum (1)
pre-dinner snack: 1 protein bar (3)
Dinner: Healthy choice veggie panini (6)
and walnuts (2)
Total points: 29 pts! (And no workout so far)
I CAN STILL REDEEM THIS---I am going to try push myself to go workout even for a little bit!
Downside: Mindless eating of crackers---giving in to unnecessary temptation, when the water was sitting right next to me!!
On a positive note, I have bought extra bottles of water today to keep in my office fridge as a backup, in between those times I have to keep refilling my water bottle (and thus, not giving myself any excuse to procrastinate drinking water!). Feeling dehydrated-- and ignoring your body's signals demanding water-- is not a good thing!!
Tomorrow WILL be a better day in all above aspects...I just slipped a little today--but NO MORE--NEVER MORE!
Note to self: Eat SALADS! Haven't been doing that with dinner lately...need to pick it up to avoid munchies..
Oh, and ok, new challenge thrown down by massiverally--for the next 7 days, only positive stuff in my journal!
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