Today's Challenge

So after turning a small corner yesterday and actually feeling some positivity, today I got smacked with a challenge first thing.  I walked out the door this morning without my lunch.  The weird thing is I also forgot my snacks. I remembered them while I was putting my gym bag in the car and went back in the house for them, but completely forget the lunch until I got to work and went to put it in the fridge.  Crazy!

Anyway, I had four options:

1. Go out to lunch (boo! I would not be able to eat my lunch from home like I had promised myself I would.)
2. Go home for my whole lunch hour and skip the gym altogether (boo! I had also promised myself five workouts this week and skipping today's would set me back)
3. Skip lunch and try to exist only on snacks for the day. 
4. Make a mad dash to the house to get the lunch and then go to the gym for 35-40 minutes.

I ruled out #1 and #2 pretty quickly. I think writing yesterday's post helped with that.  It just made me better prepared mentally when the challenge came up. I was seriously considering #3; there are days when that would be a valid option. (Although, please note that I do not advocate skipping meals, nor do I hardly ever skip a meal.) Today, however, I was starving by 11 a.m., and I had already had one of my precious snacks, which means I would've never made it without lunch. That left me only with option #4.

So, I did it!  I raced home and back in 15 minutes. Bonnie (my beautiful Golden Retreiver) was highly confused to see me home in the middle of the day, but she didn't seem to mind. I went over to the gym with Monica, my regular lunch time work out partner, and got to walk for 10 minutes before hitting up the weight room. 

Hooray for mental preparation and will power!