Day 8 - January 12,11

Hello Wednesday,
     Last night was not a good one. I did stick to the plan but it wasn't easy. Remember the family I told you about, well they put me trough my paces last night. First my wife wasn't happy with the originally planned dinner, No problem the program allows for you to switch. We chose a chicken stir fry. I was looking forward to it. Then late in the day I'm told that we have no chicken, my son won't eat any of the veggies and I need to modify the the cooking process to keep the meat out of the stir fry marinade because of my vegetarian daughter. I have to say I was a little flustered and felt like I was making these great efforts and three day's in I lost the family. It took me about an hour to calm down and re-approach the issue. so I sat down at the computer logged into PeopleSpark.com and started searching through the menu selections for a replacement.
  
    I really wanted to stay with chicken because that was the original meal plan set out by the program. It's not that I don't want to be flexible at all. It's that this is the first week and if I can't keep some semblance of the structure I feel like I've already lost. That's not how I want or need or feel right now. I need to stay strong. So Chicken it was and everyone was satisfied. I know my daughter isn't into meat, so she had a veggie pizza. Staying in control at this point anyways makes me feel like the efforts and sacrifices until now are worth something to me. Man this is tough, I even have to pat myself on the back as this goes on. Who better than me, after all in the end I'm the one who is going to benefit the most.

  Off to the doctor today for one of my regular check ups. I'll get the chance to discuss the diet with him. He has been on my back about losing weight. He say's that if I lose the 100 lbs. he will probably be able to take me off the high blood pressure medication. That would be nice. I hate the idea of having to take medication for the rest of my life, as long or short as it might be.

 I guess that's all for today, so have a good one, keep strong and don't let little setbacks hold you back from your goals!


Thanx, 
Looper


p.s.
   I'd like to say congrats to my cousin, she recently started weight watchers and a gym and at her first weigh in she's lost 3.6lbs. Keep up the good work!