Week Six Recap - Halfway Point

Hi everyone,

I am officially half way done with my challenge!  I'm just chugging along trying to make the right choices.  I've noticed that most days are easy now.  I feel like it's more of a habit or way of life now (which is nice!).

I began to really pay attention to my urges to grab something and shove it in my mouth (like nibbles of cereal or candy corn).  I didn't have any slip ups when it came to that this week!  I did really well this week and I was purposely trying to do extra good because we had a couple Halloween parties this weekend.  I wanted to be able to have a treat and not feel guilty about it.

My "treat(s)" were a  mini cornbread muffin, one small pumpkin chocolate chip cookie and a handful of white chocolate candy popcorn (that was SOOOOOO good).  This was all at one party...  I probably should've spaced it out a little.

A couple things I ate that I should've avoided were baked beans and some of my tortilla at Cafe Rio. I could've really gone overboard this week though so I am not going to beat myself up over any of that.

For fun, here's what I would've eaten at the Chuck E Cheese birthday party and 2 Halloween parties I attended this weekend:

• Pizza
• Soda
• Candy
• Yummy looking homemade birthday cake with FONDANT frosting
• Krispy Kreme doughnuts
• More candy
• More soda
• Lots of mini cornbread muffins (I LOVE cornbread!)
• Lots of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies 
• Tons of the white chocolate candy popcorn
• And, of course, even more soda!!

AND than at church yesterday there were BOSA doughnuts and bag of Halloween candy.

It would've been a calorie-packed, carb-binging weekend for the old Kara for sure!!  It's such an eye opener to me to reflect on what I would've eaten without giving it a second thought (well, until I felt sick or woke up super grumpy with a headache the next morning).  Yep, sugar gives me hangover symptoms.

Alright.  Well, back to it.  I've got 6 weeks left of this competition and I need to focus.  Especially with today being HALLOWEEN.

I have a goal to complete one entire week without any slip ups or treats.  Hopefully I'll report that this week??!!

Feel free to leave comments, tips, questions or encouraging words for me.