Friday February 4, 2011 Unplanned blessings

Today's Good Things:
Restful
Spontaneous trip to visit with dear friends
decent recovery on eating choices after yesterday


Not So Good Things:
Still not getting in my exercise
No logging for a couple of days

Today was nice. It's our relaxed day for schooling and we ended up running an errand which allowed us to make a visit with some of our dearest friends. What a lovely day to end the week. We packed our lunch, so I won the victory over a Drive-thru run that dh had suggested.  Ds loaded the crockpot with potatoes before we left, so we had a healthy dinner of baked potatoes, leftover sweet beans and bagged salad for dinner when we got home. It was so nice to come home to a healthy and EASY dinner and fight off the temptation to pick something up on the way home. Breakfast was a lovely treat of eggs scrambled with apple-cinnamon chicken sausage topped with cheese prepared by my 13yo dd. She added in whole wheat toast and cranberry juice to make it special. (it's gotta be a special occassion for us to have juice!)  Dd is working on earning a Keeper's badge, so we've been enjoying her kitchen creations lately.

So, I was happy with our eating choices today. Yesterday, not so much. All the talk of getting Off Track and back On Track, it's important to think about. I think getting off track is easy, normal, and definitely what we all struggle with in many aspects of our walk with the Lord. It seems to me that the recovery is what matters most. How quickly do we notice we are off course? How willing are we to acknowledge our shortcomings and identify the causes? What is our strategy to get back on course?  Getting a plan of attack seems the smartest thing to do since getting Off Track can happen before we even know it.

When I'm derailed with my health goals, the first thing I do in my recovery mode is to meet my water goal. Once I've got that going, I work on my eating choices. Then I work to add in at least one activity each day to be sure I'm moving. If I do just one thing, it's a pretty good bet I'm going to want to do more because it feels so good. That seems to help me refocus and begin again.