So, what had happened was....

I just finished Cardio Power & Resistance.  I should be on week 3, instead I'm on week 2.

No excuses - wasn't sick.  Had plenty of time.  Just lost my mojo.  As I *often* let happen around day 10.  Blurgh!

I had a friend who was visiting Atlanta.  I drove over to pick her up and we celebrated by eating 2 Egg Breakfasts (with hashbrowns for me) at Waffle House, then Palm Sunday services at a local church, then lunch at The Varsity (2 chili dog combo with onion rings for me).  And downhill from there.

It's easy for me to make the excuse that I don't want to subject friends to the inconvenience of my healthy eating and exercising patterns.

"My early morning workouts involve a lot of jumping.  I could wake them up."

"If I insist on finding restaurants with healthy options, it'll cut down on our happy-happy fun tiems together."

Bull.  Generally, other folks don't care all that much as long as I'm not being obnoxious about it.  Basically I've gotta learn new patterns of hanging out with my friends.  Scary thing - some friends won't like the new patterns and will resist and *I've* gotta figure out how I'm gonna respond.

So, I've gotta stick up for myself and the life I'm trying to live.  It's not like I'm gonna expect my friends to help me pay for my diabetes meds if I drive myself into a preventable illness because I'm trying to be a "gracious hostess."

Also, the net result of my downward slide - about 3 days of eating crap with abandon and then feeling like crap for another two days as my body tried to deal with processing all that.

Lessons learned:
- Figure out what I want, why I want it, and why it's worth the inconvenience and change of getting it.
- Realize that my friends want me to be happy.  And exercising and eating healthy stuff makes me happy and they're pretty accommodating when I ask them to be.
- Eating crap + not exercising = bad mood for ~days~ for Lisa P.