Skinny Saturday: Don’t Quit!

This morning Tim had a men’s bible study social event.   He’s leading a small group for church this winter.  It’s an early Saturday morning group so he thought it would be a great idea to put together a breakfast for all the guys.  He was expecting a rather big group, so he decided to go the whole nine yards:

• Pancakes
• Scrambled Eggs
• Bacon
• French Toast sticks
• Orange Juice
• Donuts

Is your mouth watering yet?

Mine was!  In fact as I watched him load up the pounds of delicious food, my stomach seemed to be actually growling audibly!  I have such a soft spot for breakfast food… ugh!

However, while he was gone this morning I forced myself to do my workout (even though I didn’t want to!).  Then when he came home a little later, with a ton of left over food and I let myself have one of the left over pancakes (that were delicious!) and then I stopped.  Did you hear that?  I stopped. 🙂

The Baker’s came later in the morning for their piano lessons and we were able to give them a bunch of donuts to take home with them.  Thanks goodness for that!  We still have quite a bit of left over donuts (I guess they all filled up on pancakes and bacon and didn’t have much room left over for the donuts…)  but it was nice to be able to give some away.

As I got ready to eat lunch I opened the fridge and gazed at all the left-overs and donuts.  All I wanted to do was gorge on donuts.  All I wanted to do was make a giant plate of cheesy scrambled eggs and greasy bacon and pig out.  But I didn’t.

It’s days like today I have to remind myself why I started.  Why am I doing this?  Why do I want to lose weight so badly?  What’s my true innermost motivation?  What do I hope to gain from all of this?

……..

And then I remember… it all comes back to me.

So I loaded up an extra giant bowl of spinach, grabbed a banana and water bottle, and walked away from the fridge.  🙂