Today is all about the small steps. It has to be, because the rest of my day was a complete and utter FAIL. The day started off like every other lately- morning dose of cleanser (last day! wooo!) and a Slim Fast Shake. I eventually made my way to the outlet mall where I proceeded to shop and more importantly WALK for over 4 hours!!!!! (small step #1). Within the course of this shopping, I realized, as I was getting dizzy and lightheaded and shaky that I PROBABLY needed to eat since it had been 6 hours since my "breakfast" and I had most likely burned twice as many calories as I had consumed. Oops. Of course, being in the mall, and being desperate for food, I made a quick and uncaring about calories decision and ate Burger King. (small step #2): I ordered a kid's meal even though I was hungry enough to eat a large size and then some.
Once I was feeling better I proceeded with my shopping. I finally found the shoes I was looking for at the 4th shoe store that I visited. A pair of Sketchers Tone Ups(small step #3). Let me stop and clarify. I bought TONE UPS, not SHAPE UPS. Shape ups = the scary looking rocker, one leg is shorter than the other look....Tone ups look like regular sneakers but have a "yoga ball" type padding on the sole. Basically the same point without the scary rocking chair armature. Awesome. I have no idea if they will actually work like they claim, but since I needed new sneakers anyway, and these don't make me look like Frankenstein, I will just take any benefits that they possibly give me and mark it as a bonus!
Moving right along, I finally headed out of the mall (let me digress for a moment-these huge circle malls are ridiculous. I mean really. No matter where you park, you have to walk the ENTIRE way around just to leave. I felt like a hamster on a wheel just desperately trying to make it back to Target and GET OUT) to meet friends for dinner with a whopping 600calories left for dinner.....Then I was reminded that all the walking I had done counted as exercise and since I burned calories, I could now add them back to my calorie allotment for dinner! YES! (refer to small step # 2, or review previous parenthetical rant) Then, because I wanted the option to eat more, I used my friend's elliptical machine for 20 minutes to burn 200 more calories (small step #4)!!!
Let's just end the story there and say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and instead we will celebrate today's small steps! Tomorrow WILL be better! It can't be much worse....
13 days down...167 to go!
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