Day # 1 of Weight Loss Challenge

This morning is not what I would call a good start.  My intention was to wake up early and make myself a nice breakfast and get this weight loss challenge off to a good start but that is not quite how it worked out.  Instead of waking up at 7am I woke up at 8:15am which is not good when Tyler's bus comes at 8:30am.  But we made it work but that meant no breakfast for me.  Which only made me realize again how important it is to have things prepared the night before.  Lesson 1 learned. 

While I was at work today I really tried to make sure that I ate the right things and stayed away from the buckets and buckets of candy that coworkers had brought in but as the day went on I realized that I was staying away from all the food and not really eating any food which is not good either.  So lesson 2 learned for today is bring your own packed food to work so you do not have to make any decisions through out the day.  

So as I was preparing to leave work today I had made a plan.  I was going to pick Tyler up from school and bring him to gymnastics where he had practice from 3-7.  I figured that in those 4 hours I would go to the gym and get a great workout in and go to the food store and prepare for my weeks ahead with the two new lessons that I had learned.  As I picked up Tyler from school Tyler informed me that the rash on his face had gotten worse. ( Tyler was a joker for Halloween and had makeup on his face so he had developed a rash, so I thought....When he left this morning it was not too bad)  Tyler informed me that he had gone to the school nurse three times during the day and the nurse informed him that he should go to the doctors because they thought that he might have chicken pox.  Really chicken pox... I did not even think that chicken pox existed anymore but apparently the school nurse said it does.  So no gymnastics for Tyler and off to the walk in we go. So the doctor in the walk in stated that it kinda does look like chicken pox and that we would have to wait it out.  That if the what I call rash goes anywhere but his face then it is chicken pox but if by tomorrow it is just on his face then it is an allergic reaction to the face makeup from Halloween. (Boy I am glad he has a medical degree I do not think I would have ever been able to figure that out).  So needless to say I did not get to work out today and I really did not eat at all today so good start to weight loss challenge not so much. 

The positives are that I learned some tips for the future...

1. Always prepare the night before 

2. Always pack a lunch so that you eat during the day and are not tempted to go off track

So here is hoping that tomorrow goes a lot better