Step Away From the Cake

Yesterday I started to derail and was a little concerned. After I ate my breakfast I was still hungry and the only thing around here to eat was some cookies. So I had a couple (they are tiny nibbles). Then I had a couple more. Then I had a couple more.... Till I had eaten 15 of them. Okay, not the greatest move but they are tiny..... Lunch went well so that was good. I left work early to go to the dr's for my ankle; 10 days after spraining it it still hurts like hell. Turns out though there is no serious damage just soft tissue injury - I will survive :) After the dr. I needed to get an ankle brace and so headed over to Longs. As I'm headed there I'm thinking about those Brach's circus peanuts, God I love them. I decided to get myself some. So I'm standing in the candy aisle looking at these peanuts and they only come in a 3 serving bag. Now I know I won't stop at 1 serving, I'll eat all 3. So I checked the nutritional info, the entire bag would have been...

So I got back on the horse yesterday and it was a good day. Exercised as planned and ate really well. Feeling awesome; empowered!!! Today is also off to a good start. Got up and ran for 40 minutes. Feeling really good.... I do have a couple of issues I need to work out though. First off, I know exactly how this week is going to go. I will do great until about Thursday. By then my appetite will increase and while I will try hard to hold it together, it will slowly start to fall apart. By the weekend I will be totally out of control. I have to change this and awareness is the first step. I know I'm not as hungry in the beginning of the week as I am towards the end because I still have the "fuel" from the weekend carrying me through. So I need to alter my eating habits toward the end of the week so that it carries me through. I also have to stop looking at things as, during the week I eat this way and on weekends I eat this way. I need to eat consistently all the time. So...