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My First Temptation...and so Soon

It's officially day 2 of my first 21 Days and already I had temptation thrown my way and I'm pretty sure I have a lot more to learn.   It was my day off today, but we had arranged to do some training with my Platoon (I'm a Dispatcher for a Fire Service).    When we had our lunch break they all wanted to go out together and have lunch.  Since our time was limited it would have to be a fast food restaurant.   I did bring my own lunch.   A lovely, healthy 21 Day lunch that was sitting in the fridge.  I just didn't want to miss anything, so I went.  

I settled on a chicken breast on a whole wheat bun with lots of veggies for toppings.  This finished me off for my yellow container for the day.  I don't think that decision was so bad.   However, I caved and had some onion rings.   I probably should have skipped the onion rings, but sometimes old habits die hard.  

I marked everything down on my tracker and had a veggie heavy dinner then got right on doing my next 30 minute exercise DVD.   Today it was Upper Fix.   Going back to yesterday's DVD, today my training was for CPR/First Aid.  Let me tell you, when I had to bend down to the floor and do my chest compressions, I could actually feel that soreness in my legs that I have only heard other people complain about after they work out.   It felt gooooooood.  

I managed to have a better balanced day today as far as my food went but I think I still have some tweaking to do. 


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