NSV's Rock.

Today we celebrated two birthdays in our home.  Both of our daughters share the same birthday even though they're not twins.  Sarah is 21 now and Kelly turned 17.  I always get tickled when someone says "well how did that happen?"  But anyhow, it's the first big event since we started Weight Watchers and I thought I'd share how our day went. 

1.  We had a piece of cake with our girls.  It was a "normal" sized portion, not the "sugar-inducing-coma" size.

2.  It didn't really taste all that good.  But considering in the past 21 days, we've had 2-3 treats total, it doesn't surprise me.

3.  I spent almost a 1/3 of my grocery budget on fruits and vegetables. The rest went to meat, milk, eggs & such.  Only two things that weren't great made it into my cart, one of which was the cake.

4.  We went out to dinner at a Chinese Restaurant but had a plan of attack before hand, so as bad as we did, we did great. *more later*

5.  My daughter was surprised to see her boyfriends parents had joined us for dinner, but she was even more surprised when he proposed to her.  She said yes, after saying "seriously" about 15 times. :)

6.  Carl had been craving a shake and I almost gave in and went to DQ.  After thinking about it, I didn't really want it, so we decided to go to Walmart and get a pint of ice cream to make a shake at home.  We did just that and split it.  It was okay, but I think both of us were kind of unimpressed with what we thought it would be.  Big win for us though because we didn't buy a 1/2 gallon and there's none left to tempt us over the coming days.

7.  While we were at Walmart, we walked all around the store.  It's not our local store and wow wow wow was that place huge. LOL :)  Definitely worked the legs tonight.

8.  I admit, I blew the end of the day.  The cake is in the kitchen and I just had a huge piece of the "sugar-inducing-coma" kind.  Wasn't smart.  I didn't want it.  I ate it anyhow. But you know what, it was okay.  Old habits die hard and as much as I regret having it, I know tomorrow it's going in the trash so the temptation won't be there for me again.

9.  I'm not going to beat myself up.  I know for the most part of the day, I did okay and I'll take it. It's not going to be something we do every day.  And it gave me a chance to see what I could do to make bad choices better.  I tried and I'm pretty proud of myself for handling it better than I ever have.  That's my NSV. :)