So my weigh in this week was decent.  I stayed the same, which is my goal now, but it was a miracle for sure.

You see, I have been struggling, and I mean struggling hard core this week.  With the holidays comes holiday baking, which is one of my favorite things to do in the world.  I have been at it for a couple of weeks now and was actually doing pretty decent.  You have to do quality control and try at least one from a batch to make sure you didn’t like put salt in instead of sugar.

I tracked it all.  Then I started a slippery slope this week known as “Oh I’ll track that in a little bit” and ended up with “Well I’ve fell right through the outhouse floor so I might as well enjoy myself”.

I know better, but it happened anyway.

It’s probably going to happen again.

And again.

No matter how bullet-proof we may feel life is a constant struggle.  It’s how we react to those struggles that define who we are and how successful we will be.  The slide was subtle and I didn’t even notice it was happening until I was at the bottom sitting in a pile of sugar cookie dough and chocolate chips.

Figuratively, mind you.  It didn’t get THAT bad.

My birthday is this week so I did the annual IHOP breakfast with my nieces and nephews after my Weight Watcher meeting.  I had everything planned, tracked, and was feeling good.

I mean I knew I had an extra cookie here or there last week.  I knew I went way over my Smartpoints Every. Single. Day.

So I ate my 33! Smartpoint breakfast and figured the rest of the day I’d eat light.  I really wasn’t hungry considering I am just so not used to eating like that anymore.

Then it all went to hell.

Which is the reason why I am up at 2 am writing this blog post.  My stomach is jacked.  Like jacked like it used to be jacked before I lost weight.

My mind is foggy and I just feel like absolute crap.

I have the first headache I’ve had in 10 months.  I’ve taken the first antacids I’ve taken in 9 months.

So I have to take a second and breathe.  I need to remember this feeling, and remember that I used to walk through life feeling like this all the time.

I need to remember that it is not worth the trade off.  The crap that I ate is not worth feeling like this.  Not by a long shot.

So I’m being mindful and moving on.  I’m recognizing what I did, and going right back to my new habits.  Not tomorrow, not the next day…..

Right now.

It’s important to remember that with the bad comes the good, and there was a lot of good last week too.

Like my friend Cindy who I reconnected with through this blog came to my meeting all the way from Florida.

Like I celebrated an early birthday meal with awesome people who are very important to me.

Like the fact that I got Harry Potter pj’s for my Birthday!

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile now and haven’t figured out I’m a great big nerd then you haven’t been paying attention.

So the fact that I messed up is really just a little blip on this thing we call life.  How I react to that blip shows way more about me then the actual blip.

I plan on reacting well.

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