TGIF

I am so glad that today is Friday. It as super slow at work today. I have to say that I love my job. They have set up goals for our department to meet, and this week we met one of the goals. So for our not reward, or yeah I would say reward, the department bought us breakfast burritos for breakfast. Which, when i heard about it I decided to eat my oatmeal, banana, plus a Fiber One bar so I wouldn't be tempted to eat the burritos, and then I had half my snack because I ate the other half for breakfast. It saved me from eating the equivalent of four bowls of oatmeal. One burrito has 300 calories, 16 grams of fat, 830 mg of sodium, and 1 gram of fiber. And they told us that there were a couple of burritos per person. So two burritos eating is eating over 1/4 of my daily calories. It was good to pass!!
I actually enjoyed my workout today. I rode the recumbent bike for 30 minutes and then did some sit-ups on the swiss ball. I figured out that when I am doing sit-ups on the ball that I used the ball to propel me forward to do the sit-up. But then I decided to lightly put my hands behind my head and use my stomach muscles to propel me through the exercise. It was twice as hard to to the exercise strickly rather than by using the the spring of the ball. It was great that I was able to figure out what I have learned through my high school career of weight lifting and studying bodybuilding that strictness is the key.
I think that I mentioned before that at my work they have Friday treat day. Well I had just eatten my lunch when the email came out and they announced that it was treat day. I went out and I looked at the treats and I picked up a bag of licorice bits and headed back to my desk. As I headed back to my desk I had a second thought, if I eat this I am giving up I am doing what I have always done, giving in to my body temptation, but I am not going to give in, so I put the licorice in my desk and turned my thought process to something different. I have this wierd capability of being to put something out of my sight and then forgetting about it. Out of sight, out of mind. My wife has taken all the Christmas candy and put it in the freezer, and I totally forget that it is there. It is there for another 12 days until Christmas Eve and Christmas day. So I will probably get rid of the candy or maybe be the cool day and stockpile all of it so when my kids come to visit I will have some treats for them. Moderation for them of course, because if they have the genes of their dad they will have the potential to be fat like me. But I figure that if learn and teach myself to eat healthy then it will be easier to feed them healthy and then they can do more than their father did while they are young.
I feel like I limited myself so much when I was a kid that I missed out on opportunities to do different activities. I always wanted to skateboard and ride BMX and do things like that. I wanted to be a football great or be great at wrestling the biggest problem? My weight, because of my weight I could move fast enough to be a decent wrestler and I didn't have the balance to be a skateboarder or BMX rider, etc. Snowboarding? Forget about it. I couldn't control my balance for the life of me. I wouldn't say that I have missed out on life, because that wouldn't be true, BUT I have sat by the wayside for too long not being able to do things that I have wanted to do, things that I would have loved to do. When I was in Arkansas I caught a glimps of those things. I have always wanted a BMX bike and when I was out there in a small town called Pine Bluff, there was this little bike shop out on the outskirts of town that had a guy who used to do flatland tricks and he rode the half pipes. In this little shack, which was packed to the ceiling with bikes and gear I learned some of the basics of flatland tricks and I really fell in love with it, but I didn't have the cash, but I swore that I would by one of those bikes when I got back to Utah and learn how to do those tricks. Well I gained my weight back and I don't have the bike mainly because I am still in school and don't have much time, but when I do, I would love to get one so that I can learn. I don't want to ride the pipes, just do the technical balance tricks. So I proceed with my goal so I can enjoy those dreams. Today was a great day. I feel like my ability to resist those temptations is getting stronger. That is a wonderful feeling, but it's just the tip of the iceburg. we all know how iceburgs work, underneith it is the larger problem. I still have a long way to go.