I ATE FRIED CHICKEN!!!!

AAAAAHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!!!!!   Autumn Calabrese would kill me!!!!  One of my weaknesses, fried chicken, for some crazy reason Scott was craving today.  He NEVER cares for fried chicken, but you guessed it.  Smack in the middle of my 21 day fix, he decides he really needs fried chicken for lunch.  So off to the store he goes. 

I was so determined to stay away from the chicken and be content munching on my grapes, tomatoes and cucumbers, but the smell of the delicious, saturated, deep fat fried, MSG coated chicken filled the air and then it was RIGHT THERE.  Sitting in front of me to dish out onto all the kids plates for lunch.  I was so strong, I got them their plates with chicken and grapes and once everyone was served I walked back into the kitchen and like a flippin' starving woman grabbed a chicken leg and devoured it in 10 seconds flat!!!  Holy cow!  Where did that come from!?!?!?  It's like I didn't even think about it.  The old me had reared her ugly head and grabbed the food and shoved it down my throat!!!!  And it was soooo goooooood.....

Get control of yourself, Lisa!  One chicken leg and half a thigh later, I walked away.  What had I just done???  I felt like crap.  Quite honestly, I had just binged and I felt like I had undone all the work I had been doing the last 2 weeks.  And for what?  Fried chicken?  Really?  Wow, people's weaknesses are so strange.  Luckily, I hadn't done my workout for today, so I hit it hard and did the upper body workout digging extra deep and pushing harder than before.  And after that, in the hopes of clearing my body and conscience of that stupid chicken, I did the 10 minute abs.  And boy, 40 minutes of work made me feel a little better about the chicken.  Not perfect, but less guilty.  Next time, I hope I'll just skip the chicken so I don't have to torture myself trying to burn it off later.  It's amazing the games our head can play on us and how there can be such an inner battle over something as silly as fried chicken!  I'm not a foodie or anything, but man, today was a tough one. 

Right now, I'm drinking my Shakeology with banana, peanut butter and sunflower seeds , so we're back on track.  For the rest of the day and this whole weight loss journey, I'm going to be extra careful to not let small temptations set me off track.  I literally felt like the Tazmanian Devil.  CRAZY! 

I hope that by sharing my weaknesses and successes, I can encourage you to keep on going!

Happy sweating!