Day 3 of 21

Total failure. I accept it and move on.

I was too burned out from work when we got home to go straight to the gym, so I set out to cook dinner, which also happened to be a big batch cooking so I could get several meals out of 1 session. Well it about tripled the cooking time. In the time waiting for it to cook, I was starving, and for some reason I turned to the few bits of chocolate I have around the house still. I had my last Rice Krispie's Treat bar (got those a long time ago), 3 mini Reese's cups, 2 single-serving (like from Halloween bags) Twix bars, a peanut sweet-and-salty bar, and later, a bowl of m&ms (though I did try to pour out what I thought was only 1 serving, instead of snacking from the bag). Then I had my dinner (chicken marsala, mm).

By now it was 10pm and I was tired from the day, from the cooking, and upset that I let myself eat so damn much chocolate (the supply left has severely dwindled though, so I won't be able to do that too many more times! This is literally stuff from Halloween still, shows you how fast I eat chocolates). I really didn't feel like going to the gym at this hour (you're not supposed to go within a few hours of bedtime, and I had gone REALLY late the night before), but....Dairy Queen has these girl scout thin mint cookie mint shake goodness things, and they only have them for the month of July. Let me tell you, I love mint. So with just 2 days left in the month, off we went to fetch the desserts.

Oh look, they're closed. Josh assured me they were open "til midnight or later" - turns out he got that confused with Wendy's. Defeated and missing my minty treat, I went back home and declared it was our punishment for not going to the gym.

Then I had a lot of wine and the aforementioned m&ms to make up for not getting my dessert, the dessert I really didn't need in the first place.

Today I feel even worse about the whole thing. Yes I failed on only day 3, but you know what, scheduling sucks. It really does. I'm not a morning person for anything, and I don't appear to be a night owl when it comes to the gym. So, I need to do better on the scheduling. For today, I will try my best to go after So You Think You Can Dance at 10pm. You know what would help with scheduling? A DVR. Then I don't have to watch my show at 8pm - I can go to the gym and then watch it when I get back instead of planning the gym around the TV (I refuse to give up TV and you can't make me!). I'll have a DVR soon enough. Until then, I'll have to try extra hard.