Mmmm cookies!

Up until today, I was doing fantastic.  I’ve kept on losing at a decent rate, enough to meet my goal, but not too many to cause issues like today.  It’s not that I have been losing too fast and now I’m binging.  I’m blaming it on the fact that I bought the cookies and didn’t leave them in the store…

I’ve determined that my success over the past month has been due to two main reasons.  One being that I have been working until 3:00 or 4:00 each day, effectively cutting out the boredom factor that came from coming home around 2:00 or even earlier.  The other reason is that due to my strict budget for January and February, I have only been buying what is on my list with my meals planned out so no room for variance when I am at the grocery store.

 Which brings me to my cookies.  I decided that because the weather was so bad on Friday I wasn’t going grocery shopping after work.  Instead, I would stop at THAT store and get a few items to tide us over.  First mistake!  Second was that I was hungry because instead of taking a lunch with protein, I had decided to eat some of the food piling up at work.  All healthy, but not high enough in protein without a main meal.  The third mistake was that I had planned on eating all of my carrots with my lunch and when I went to get them, they had frozen solid.  So, going to the bad store without enough protein and vegetables to fill me up led to my downfall two days later.  The partially good news being that the cookies have lasted way longer than usual, making it until today.

Oh well, I can’t change the past.  I can, however learn from my mistakes and not let this happen again.  Today I made over 12 lunches to freeze and take so that I have protein with my fruits and veggies at work.  I’m going grocery shopping next Friday no matter what the weather and even if I change my mind, I won’t be going into the store with the yummy cookies anytime soon.  We’ll go without milk and bread next time.  One day at a time.  I can’t fall off the wagon and stay there; I have to get right back on.