Day 541: Enjoy Life



"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only

 the scenery you miss by going too fast,

 you also miss the sense of where you are

 going and why."  

~Eddie Cantor~



It's Day 541 of Nutrisystem. Today I opted to enjoy life. It wasn't about the eating regimen. It wasn't about the fitness regimen. It was about being with family and having a good time. 

Breakfast was a 2.8 ounce package of pancakes with sugar free syrup and a 5.3 ounce Light & Fit key lime yogurt. After that I was out for the rest of the day and eating mostly off program. I did have a 1.8 ounce 200 calorie fudge graham bar in between breakfast and lunch/dinner but I can't really put a calorie count on anything else. Lunch was a buffalo chicken wrap with fries and a margarita. I brought half of the wrap home but I ate all the fries. I've gone over 1200 calories and didn't drink enough water but I'll be back on track tomorrow.

Today was an unexpected day of shopping and casino with my older sister and my mom. It was nearly 10:30 when I woke up and found a text from my sister. She wanted to go to Boscovs and I will never say no to that ! I bought a couple of new tops (one a size small!), another set of shorty pajamas and a pair of bermuda length shorts. I also finally found some sandals ! I loved them so much I bought a pair in black and a pair in white ! I was hesitant to look at shoes because I didn't know what their safety procedures were. Turns out you just need to slip on a pair of plastic gloves before handling the footwear and of course wear those silly nylon things if you don't have socks on. I've always liked their shoe department because you have to bring the display shoe to a store associate to request a pair in your size to try on. It still amazes me that I don't need wide width shoes anymore. I spent my entire adult life struggling to find shoes that fit and sometimes wide width was not wide enough. Until it was gone I never realized how much foot pain I was dealing with. My feet seem to like being relieved of 140 pounds ! After we shopped we took our starving selves to Turning Stone Casino. We had lunch at Emerald's and then gambled for a couple hours. After a mini fashion show and a couple cups of coffee at my mom's I headed home. It was nearly 10:30 by the time I got home so there was no exercise today. I'm not happy about that but I had a great day. 

I'll be home all day Sunday so I'll get my treadmill time in. If the weather clears I'd like to wash my car too. It was kind of fun to wash it myself so I probably won't go back to a car wash until this winter. Unless I get myself to bed I won't get anything accomplished tomorrow, so it's time for a quick shower and then some z's !

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