Grrrrrr. Reminding myself right now that life and health is about more than weight from one day to the next, but it's hard when the struggle comes so early in a new journey.
Long story short, my best friend's husband got taken away in an ambulance today and I'm watching her kids and mine. Since we didn't want the kiddos to worry, we're making it a fun date night with movies and pizza. Shouldn't be the biggest deal, but with the emotional stress added onto the temptation I didn't stop at one slice... or two... but three large slices. Plus a slice of chocolate chip cookie. AND I had to cancel my walk.
HOWEVER, I did stop at one slice of that cookie instead of the two or three my emotions wanted. And I still have over 16k steps. And although I won't make my calorie goal in addition to the extra eaten calories, I'm still already 550 calories over my basal metabolic rate for the day and it's only 6:30.
The lesson for me today is that life is more important. Focusing on goals, even good ones, pales in the face of an emergency and the ability to help my friends. Also - and this is a hard one for me - I am perfectly capable of picking up again tomorrow and I will. I think I'm mentally in a place that I would have anyhow, but DietBet is helping spur that right now. I've got WAY too much money that I absolutely CANNOT afford to lose on the line! So I'd better get in gear and work it. But never to the exclusion of the ultimate reason to even lose the weight - to live life better.