Friday

Treated myself to an omelet this morning. Used all my favorite veggies in it. Planned ahead and, while chopping items for breakfast, created a salad that I took for lunch.

Had the last of my tomato-based vegetable medley with a chicken breast for dinner. It was a very tasty combination and I plan on making it again.

I'm starting to get the itch to weigh myself again. I need some validation, I guess. My plan is to head over to the contest site and doing my official weigh-in on Monday.

I know it took me years and years to get here. I know it'll take time to get to where I'm headed. I wish the journey could be quicker... but it's not. It's day by day. Planning ahead. Making sure I have plenty of nutritious, tasty, appealing, healthy food on hand. Staying out of the drive-thru -- even (especially!) when it'd be so easy to hide. Nobody would know... but I would. And this is one of those occasions where 'cheating' really is cheating yourself.

The contest is in my head less and less. I do want to win, but with 400+ competitors it seems so unlikely. What is in my head is winning my battle with my sedentary lifestyle, my pre-packaged warming-lamp hydrogenated carbonated corn syrup convenience foods and the apathetic attitude toward changing them.

Six weeks down. The rest of my life to go.