DAY 13: B O O M!!!!!!!

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Today was pretty dog-gone-great! I woke up in a good mood and enjoyed time at the office with my co-workers and our alumni. I have been shocked the last couple of days because of the VERY limited amount of diet Pepsi/Coke I have had, (or more remarkably), even wanted. I've now been in a grocery story; a gas station: a drug store and my office without eating ANY junk....and YES there have been opportunities! I even went with my husband and friends to the iPic Theater in Boca Raton @ Mizner Park and ONLY had the 3 small Angus Burger sliders! I did not have a soda, french fries OR dessert. Let me say now, "I have ALWAYS done bad at the movies... ALWAYS!" Obviously something has changed - right?

There is only ONE primary explanation I can arrive at for this "out of the blue" change in desire that I was experiencing, and that is the Incomprehensible One! A couple of weeks ago I had an experience in my room one day after work. It did not so much arise due to weight or food issues, rather a deep internal struggle I was having - wrestling, (if you will), with hanging on to angers and fears in my life. I don't know if you know the kind...they're like flypaper - you try to get rid of it, and it just sticks to another part of you. I had been staying in that for quite a while and of course, you can not hang on to "self-driven" feelings AND cling selflessly to God at the same time - hence the "misery". I find there is no more miserable state, than feeling separated from the greatest love I've ever known. So that day I just let go and wept with God, giving Him all the things that I clung to...all the things that are His to have. From that day, (very gradually), I found myself feeling calmer and incredibly, desiring "unhealthy" things less.

So anywhoooo...
On the way home it was really rainy - not a hard rain, just a steady light rain with ominous cloud cover. I got home however, and my husband had the bikes ready, because we had determined earlier that we were going riding - NO MATTER WHAT!

I got in my riding clothes on, we loaded up and hit the road. I have to say that the rain and cool air felt really good. We got over to the park and about 2 miles, when it happened: Flash ----------------- B O O M!!!!!..and with that, we high tailed it on home! Larry Wayne dried the bikes...( I just love him to pieces!)

I came walking in the door and who do you think was waiting for me? Why my babies' Zeke and Pickles! BOY were they hungry!

 I fed them dinner and Larry took them out. Following that we finally sat down to have our DELICIOUS salads! I had my special "Fruity Salad"

...and I made Larry his special Tuna Salad...but of course...Zeke gave his "death stare" throughout the meal -- always thinks it will work! ...CRAZY dog! 

Tomorrow Larry Wayne is going out of town and I will face my historically weakest time for "unhealthy living"...but you know what? I believe this time it is going to be different and successful!