From the time we wake up in the morning we are faced with choices about every part of our day. When to get up? What to wear? What to eat? What route to drive? What work to tackle first? And so it goes through out the day. Being on a diet - or a plan for life - presents even more choices. Every turn throughout the day is full of food choices. When I was out to breakfast this morning - breakfast out with a newspaper and a good friend is one of my favorite things - I ordered an omelet but declined the toast. The omelet arrived with the toast. Hmmmm, a choice I wasn't prepared for. So - I could eat the toast, eat some of the toast, or ask the waitress to take it back. I sided somewhere in the middle and ate one and sent one back. Lunch was at home and my house holds no treats that call my name so those choices were easy - which fruit? which protein? which pretty dish to serve it on? Today was grocery store day so I was really looking forward to dinner. I replenished all of my veggies so I had fresh tomatos, cukes, and broccoli to throw into a big spinach salad with some turkey shredded throughout it. A great eater's day. I used to choose sugar. Lots of it. Some days were all day long sugar. I don't have those days anymore, but I'm still choosing for myself - I'm just choosing differently. Today I chose well and that means that my evening will be empty of regret and guilt and sadness and depression. Tomorrow when I step on the scale, no matter what it says I will know that I did my best today - that I made my best choices. I have a long way to go on this journey to reach my final goal of losing 102 pounds - but the longer I am on this journey the surer I become that I will reach tha goal simply by putting one foot in front of the other and by making good choices.
Long walk today in the sunshine. Didn't really want to go but I decided to - chose to! - and I'm so glad that I did. I always feel so much better when I'm done with whatever exercise I choose to do. Five pounds until I get back into my rowing shell - I was 210 this morning.  On the next nice day that doesn't have a lot of other time consuming stuff in it - I'm going to take my rowing shell out of storage and give it a good cleaning and polish so it will be all ready for it's maiden voyage of the year, with it's much thinner owner. I get to do that because of all of the good choices I've made.