My Diet Cliche

Monday I ate at Red Lobster - it was a broiled seafood platter, but it comes with a hell of a lot of butter. Yesterday? Acadiana Cafe down-home cookin' - yea, lots of fried stuff . . . and da da da dum - today? Long John Silvers . . . what can I say? Check back here next Tuesday and see if I've gotten off the ground!

I went back to work and school this week. My job is seasonal, and I work really strange hours throughout the Fall. I'll only be working until Sept. 1, so . . . I haven't had a lot of time, and I've been stressing about not going to the gym, but I'm not doing it anymore. I have three days left of work, and then I'll get back on it. I don't have classes until noon, and I always feel more like working out in the mornings, so as soon as I drop my daughter off at 630 in the morning, I will head straight for the gym, and still have plenty of time to relax before going to class. I'm actually feeling really excited about it, so I WILL NOT STRESS ABOUT NOT MAKING IT TO THE GYM THIS WEEK, OR NEXT WEEK!!! And then I still have two months to get back in shape so I can wear the Playboy bunny costume for Halloween that my boyfriend has decided will be the costume I will wear to his job's Halloween shindig.

It means any motivation for the gym went out the window for today. I will just concentrate on eating right. Yesterday the whole eating right thing went down the tube. I went to Pizza Hut buffet with my boyfriend, and then later last night my friend Josh brought me a smorgasboard of Sonic. Yes, a smorgasboard . . . stuffed jalepenos, two corndogs, tots, and a cookie dough blast. GOOD GOD I ATE IT ALL! I've never been very good in the food department, but hold your horses . . . I really do like working out and sweating . . . so, I have to ask myself, "Why the hell have you been skipping the gym???"

Those were the words of my ex-trainer upon seeing me at the gym yesterday. Yes, I went to the gym yesterday. I ate like I was supposed to, too. Well, kind of . . . I started off well with 2 cups of Cheerios with 1 1/2 cups of skim milk, and I followed up the gym with 1 cup skim milk and a scoop of my high performance meal replacement powdery stuff. At the gym I did a whole whopping 15 minutes of cardio on the stairs. I'm sure that did me a lot of good especially followed by a pizza buffet and dinner at IHOP.

Today I did a whole 20 minutes of cardio. At least it was something, and I've started out my meal plan the same way. I just have to see if I can get past the pizza buffet which is my boyfriend's favorite.

I can't believe I've gained 20lbs in the last two months . . . but I have, and I've been feeling guilty as all hell! BUT . . . not anymore. I talked with Ray Ray my ex-trainer yesterday, and I'm gonna get back on this. He's gonna start giving me workouts again when I go to the gym, and helping come up with a new meal plan. I can't sit around and feel guilty. I just have to get my sorry fat ass back on the damn bike/stairs/treadmill or whatever, and get it going.

I've had a great summer! I fell in love, I've pigged out, and done some fun new stuff, but the summer is almost over, and it's time to get back to business!