Will Power

Cardinal Rule for Staying on Your Meal Plan:
NEVER grocery shop hungry!!

Have you ever done that? Gone to the grocery store with your stomach growling? Have you noticed that somehow all kinds of crazy foods that you wouldn't normally buy? And you get to the till and your total is crazy expensive and you're trying to figure out how the hell that happened?

I've totally done that before. I once read somewhere that the best way to save money grocery shopping is to go after a meal instead of before one. I've tested the theory before and it's true. It's a lot easier to stick to your list and not be so easily persuaded to grab the junk. Actually, when I'm not hungry, I have no trouble walking past that isle all together.

Yesterday I broke the rule. I was out running errands and I got caught not having enough snacks. See, I've been doing much better on my meal plan after my little spill off the wagon. I've been on point and eating everything I'm supposed to, when I'm supposed to. But I was out doing deliveries and I remembered that I needed to pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving. So I went to the store. The first store I went to didn't even have a single turkey. Which meant I needed to drive to a completely different store. And then there was traffic. And for some reason everyone forgets how to drive as soon as it snows, which it just did, so it was snail speed ahead and before I knew it I was hitting that 2.5 hr mark. My body knows to burn my calories. So when that timing hits, I am freaking starving.

It all started while I was walking into the bakery isle. I can't usually have baked goods. I can't have gluten as it triggers a disorder I have. But as it's Thanksgiving, I will be having stuffing. And in order to make that happen, I require bread. Considering it needs to be done up right, I spend the extra and get GF bread so that I can partake in one of my favourite parts of the Thanksgiving meal.

Anyway!

So I was in the bakery area, at the little GF end-of-isle display. And there they were. Calling to me.
GF vanilla cupcakes. Omg, I could taste them in my mouth! They looked so good even though they were 370 calories a piece with 138 carbs, and 3 g of protein and I can't remember the sugar amount per 1 cupcake. I didn't have cake for my birthday. And on the way home from an Herbalife STS in Calgary, we stopped off at a donut shop and I could have NONE of them, even though they smelled heavenly. Oh, believe me, my stomach made all kinds of justifications.

But I was strong. I gave them a nice ride around the store in my cart, but had my daughter put them back before we checked out.

I'm not going to lie to you, I could have eaten the whole freaking package, I was so hungry. But I exerted the most insane amount of self control and I let them go.

Goals vs the food. The cupcakes aren't going to get me to my goals.  Cupcakes don't build muscle (as much as I wish they did!) So I called my hubby and he's fabulous and made a stir fry and had it ready for me when I got home. And it tasted amazing because he's an amazing cook!

With the failures I've had over the last few weeks, it feels good to be winning again. My mindset it right, which means my will power and focus are back! I'm excited to see what I can accomplish now :)