168 Choices

Happy day after Thanksgiving!  I'm not a big shopper, so I avoid the craziness of Black Friday like the plague (I'll do most of my Christmas shopping over the internet).  My two oldest granddaughters (7 and almost 6) spent last night and they want to knit (oldest one already knits and I'll teach the younger one), watch a movie and have a tea party.  That sounds like a perfect way to spend the day :-).

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and regardless of what you ended up eating (or not eating) yesterday, I hope you woke up this morning on plan.  If yesterday's eating didn't go exactly as planned, today IS a new day! 

In case anyone is thinking, "well, I blew it yesterday so I might as well wait until after Christmas to get back on plan," may I offer a different perspective?

Since we eat six times a day on this program, between now and Christmas Day you will eat 168 times.  Even if one (or two) meals yesterday were off plan, you still have 168 opportunities to make healthy choices that can easily have you down 8-10 pounds, or even more, before Christmas.  How great will it feel to be down 8-10 more pounds a month from now?

I know that some of you will face a couple of holiday parties, etc. between now and Christmas, but I'm encouraging you to think about where you want to be a month from now.  You have 168 meals between now and then and the choices you make for each of those meals will determine where you'll be Christmas Day.

Whether you're out shopping today or doing something else, choose wisely :-)