Day 25: Be A Champion

Serena Williams said “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”. I can relate because I’ve fallen a lot, literally and figuratively ! I may fall during my weight loss journey but I will pick myself up and keep going.
Today is day 25 on Nutrisystem. It is going well but I’m still tweaking the program to get to what will work best for me. One thing I’ve changed in my next order is the bars for lunch. They send you 6 of them and I don’t really want to have a sweet bar as my lunch, so I’ve changed my next order to include other items for lunch. I don’t mind the bars for breakfast. I think my next order will be about perfect because it’s all foods I like.
Breakfast today was a 2 ounce 150 calorie blueberry muffin with vanilla caramel creme coffee. I warmed the muffin in the microwave for 20 seconds and it tasted like I had just baked it ! Morning snack was the usual 120 calorie shake, vanilla today. Lunch was 7.5 ounce 170 calorie bean and ham soup with some raw carrots. The soup is a little blah, probably because they try to keep the sodium content down. Afternoon snack was a slice of whole wheat toast (80 calories) with some peanut butter (95 calories). Dinner tonight was a 3.8 ounce 260 calorie Italian herb flatbread pizza. I don’t really care for the shelf stable pizzas and won’t be getting any more of them, but I have to eat what I have. I ended up not eating the leftover slice of buffalo chicken pizza as it looked pretty dry and unappetizing. I’ve pretty much eaten all of the food from my first delivery so now I can delve into the new shipment. I think I have one lunch bar left from my original shipment but my plan is to eat that as a snack one day. I’m only at about 1006 calories for the day, which is ok because I’m not yet exercising. Winter just sucks .. I get home at night and when it’s cold and snowy all I want to do is have dinner and hop on the couch with my blankie !
There is nothing new to report on my job situation. I am continuing to look for other opportunities in the company, just in case. I would be ecstatic to find a new job with AT&T that would allow me to work from home. I wouldn’t have to pay for parking ($90 a month) and I’d save a ton on gas. I would also enjoy the challenge of doing something new after all these years. I plan to work another 8-10 years so if I have to start over with another company I will gladly do that. Whatever I end up doing it’ll be different and that will make it challenging and fun !

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