second verse...same as the first

Saturday was a brutal day for watching what I ate. It was gruesome. I watched myself eat, and eat, and eat. Just like old times--you know, just like two weeks ago.

It started off with the kids' Halloween party. I volunteered and found myself refilling the snack table and sampling as well as finishing off what my kids took and didn't eat. Forgive the food porn but between the party and the humane society benefit that evening, I drank wine (the benefit was a beer/wine tasting!), ate dark chocolate, eggplant parmesan, pumpkin bread, popcorn mix, dirt cake, white cake with frosting and made some lame attempts at eating vegetables to offset the melee. All told, I effectively doubled what I am supposed to be eating in a given day and used all my "flex points" (plus two). I guess I'll just have to be super conscientious about what I eat this week and get off my lame ass and start moving.

The good news is, I didn't let this turn into a free for all the following day. I'm back on track. I did walk 3.5 miles today with minimal achilles tendon pain (except for the last mile). There is hope for me yet. Today was also the Chicago Marathon. The marathon I had hoped to run this year. Next year I'm there!