I got a text tonight around 5:30 PM inviting me to dinner at Village Inn. I didn't know who it was from, but I readily accepted before asking who it was. I figure that it must be someone I know, right?
It turns out that it was someone I know and she wanted me to go with her and some friends to Village Inn. Before going though, they had a Facebook intervention with me. The right people were trying to convince me to join though. Had it been anyone else, I wouldn't have listened at all. They want me on Facebook so I can be in the loop and so I no longer feel like I don't have friends. I will not say whether I joined back up, but what I can say are the following things:
1. Screw Facebook.
2. My official stance is that I do not have a Facebook page.
After the intervention, we departed in my car for Village Inn (that's three times I've said the name of the restaurant now...do you think they'll give me a free meal?). As I pulled into the restaurant, I remembered a friend who had his birthday yesterday (technically two days ago, but I'm posting this just after midnight and I contend that the day doesn't start until 6 AM, just like in Jesus' day) and nobody was able to make it to his birthday dinner. Poor guy! I was busy, I swear! So I called him and he came. I told the others that it was his birthday and that no one was able to make it to dine with him, and so they ran across the street to Walmart to get a birthday cake for him.
They bought this really fun cake. It had delicious vanilla buttercream frosting (which is a project I intend to take up one of these days) on the outside, and four colors of cake inside. It all tasted like yellow cake, but there was bright yellow, blue, red, and purple cake with marble-like swirls. It was cool! I ate far too much in one sitting though. Not cake; I only had one piece. I got fish and chips for dinner, which included soup, toast, fries, and more fries (because that was my other side). I had five pieces of cod, all the fries, all of the clam chowder (I made it a seafood night), one half of the toast, and then that piece of cake. Oh, I also ate one more piece of cod because my friend got the all-you-can-eat meal (it was only $1.30 more) and didn't finish all of his fish. I can tell you this: all the guys (except for JMcG) had their bellies sticking out by the end of the night!
Speaking of bellies, I think mine is coming along, but I need to control my diet more. Today I did some high-intensity interval training on the elliptical because I read that it burns fat better than just maintaining a heart rate for an extended amount of time. I'm not sure why that is, but I'll take it. I'm going to continue this type of training for a while to see if there's an impact.
As for the diet, I really need to change something. First off, I eat WAY too much chicken. Why did God have to make chicken so delicious? Why couldn't He make soy beans that delicious? I like green beans, but I sometimes lack the motivation to make them...even though making fried chicken takes way more effort.
I honestly don't eat a lot of sweets and I have been limiting my soda intake. I guess I'll pay attention to what I eat tomorrow and then see which changes I can easily make. It really only takes small steps at a time. Green beans here, a handful of carrots there... I should go back to what I used to eat for breakfast, which was a banana, string cheese, and...something else. Maybe nothing else? I should eat oatmeal, a banana, and some string cheese for breakfast tomorrow. Tomorrow and every day, that is. I feel like if I can work off my soda intake in a given day, then it can kind of cancel out. But I do remember when I lost a bunch of weight at a time, and it was because I worked out and drank Crystal Light instead of soda. I'm going to set aside a "no-soda" day this week. Perhaps Monday or Wednesday. One is better than none, right?
Time to slay this beast of a belly I have.
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