All in a lunch break...

... what goes good with a new ipod, lunch break, a nice walk around the block ... ???

How about getting stopped by a man in a pick up truck who thinks you look good walking and who says you look like a gal who likes to have fun so he thought he'd stop and see if you wanted to go have a drink?

Yep. That's it. That's what happened to me on my lunch break today. TODAY. My SECOND day with my ipod... a walk around the block... and a man tries to pick me up. Not a really cute man, either.... had he been cute, I might have been late returning from lunch... (now that's funny!)

Well... I guess you are DYING to know what I said to him? I told him that I was flattered and so appreciated the compliment howeverI had to get back to work...

That iPod's paying off already...

Reward time... Finally!

... SparkPeople suggests you give yourself small rewards as you travel the road to weightloss success... I've given myself a few along my journey... a new pair of shoes, a necklace... a new outfit...

When I reached my 50 lb. goal... I thought I needed to give myself a GREAT reward... What to do? Before I could decide, I had made it to 55 lbs. off... Still I hadn't given myself a reward... I thought of a "journey" necklace... seemed appropriate... Still... days and days went by... Until last week.

Last week I started biking more, walking more... and my little $6 radio kept skipping and losing my station... every time I hit a bump in the road... So... I decided... I'm gonna buy myself a good MP3 player... That's what I'm gonna do... So.. without much thought... I talked to my son, Dan, and promptly ordered a iPod Nano... yep. I did.

I've been nervous about getting it for days... Can I do this? Am I smart enough to figure this new technology out?? (Not so new, but to me... very new!) Can I do it myself?? Or will I have to have help? (I did have to have help opening the package! Wow... what packing!)

It arrived yesterday... I anxiously opened the package... it was like Christmas... I was so excited... Rushed home... plugged it in to the computer... began reading info... and guess what???

IT IS THE MOST AWESOME REWARD EVER!!!! Oh, my gosh... I did it! I'm listening to it right now... It is the most awesome thing ever!!! What a reward... what a gift for my biking and walking... wow... this is going to make it so much nicer... AND I've already "danced" to two songs!!! That can't hurt either!! I've never been so excited....

Thanks Dan for the suggestion... Thanks Bekah for believing that I COULD DO THIS... and thanks... Apple!

You name it... I ate it...

... and I don't even have a good reason as to why... and why am I writing this blog about my most recent lapse in food intake? Because I am insisting on "owning" my mistakes as well as my successes... It's the only way I believe that I can be accountable for what I am doing.

Oh, I could go on about my day today... as if last night didn't happen. No one would ever know... except me. However, that is not how I am... so here I am spilling my guts...

Last night... well, let me preface this by saying work yesterday was unbelievable. Things are happening there that... just should not be happening in the year 2008! Having said that... I was not in the best mood last night so BF decided we would go out to dinner. Which was nice, by the way.

After dinner, arrived home... and we began relaxing and watching the new episodes of Prison Break.... and that's when my demise began.

Was I hungry? No.. in fact, I was full from dinner... but I wanted something sweet... just a little nibble I thought... So I had a small rice krispy treat.. only 90 calories... no harm there.

Prison Break (first two episodes) made me nervous... suspense was killing me... so what did I do? I grabbed something else... and then something else... and before I knew it... I had eaten WAY more than I needed to and all because of a suspenseful show and nothing to do with my hands?

Perhaps. However, I believe there is an underlying culprit. I am a tad depressed. I am a tad sad. I am a tad overloaded at work and I believe... that I let that take over my sanity last night.

Now having "owned" my behavior of last night... Having written it down here... I, am hoping I will somehow forgive myself... for that lapse... and I will pick myself up today... dust myself off... and continue on the most amazing lifestyle journey change that I have ever been on...

It's 7:45 a.m. and so far ... so good!