Living Healthy Sucks!

This is the year that I vowed I would get my act together and start living healthier.  I started off by FINALLY getting in to the dentist after many years of not going (and I chronicled how well that went in the entry before this one)... The second part of my "healthier living" is to eat better. 

Anyone close to me knows my love affair with all-things-chocolate stems from childhood (hense why, in part at least, I have a mouthful of fillings).  If there was a proposal for adding chocolate onto the food pyramid as it's own food group (and a very necessary one, at that), I'd so be all over it-- it'd probably be the ONLY food group requirement I'd make every day.  You know you've got a bad addiction when the girls working in the pharmacy next door see you coming and just automatically know to ring up a Twix and a diet green tea before you're even up to the counter.  Sad, sad, sad...

Every day I have AT LEAST two chocolate breaks. *Sigh* Well, time to change, friends,  before it catches up with me, I guess...

Today I opted to pack my lunch. I don't usually pack on the days when I know I'm going to be at this particular site because the drug reps are always catering food for us here.  But, because I'm TRYING to do better (and because we have a wedding to go to this weekend and I want to look smoking-hot (laughter from the audience)), I've decided to pass up the chicken wings and pasta catered from O'Charley's and instead eat my little sandwich with my cup of applesauce... and my small container of M&M's... and diet Dr. Pepper.  Okay, so it's not the healthiest lunch I could've packed, but it's still better than the greasy-fat diet I usually consume here.

I'm also going to use my lunch hour to "exercise", by running to Kohl's and Walmart (because everyone knows how huge the Super-Walmart is.  I mean, two laps around it and you've walked, like, five miles, right?).

I have done better today than usual, though.  This morning around 8 I was sitting at my desk, jonesing for a Twix and instead of walking over to the pharmacy to buy one, I opted instead to eat my Yo-Plus yogurt with my Special K "grab 'n go" and surprisingly, the craving passed.  Till 11:00, at least.  Then I caved and ate my M&M's out of my lunch.  Huh, guess the pharmacy will see me this afternoon for my Twix-run, afterall...  Damn.