Upcoming Doctor's Visit

Well, on Friday I go back to the doctor again. Can you believe it has been a month already? I can't! There is nothing like the fear of the scale to inspire a bit more diligence in the areas of exercise and proper eating. Now this is not to say I have been horrible or anything but I have not been as good as I could have been. I mean at the wedding there was a chocolate fountain! I had to taste it! It was just a taste a strawberry and a pine apple piece but still...Then there was the wedding cake! True it was very small bite and just a bite. SO while it all has been a little here and a little there with the food you couple that with being so busy that walking with my friend became more the exception than the rule and you get...Well I get guilt. Last week I decided to be really good. Measure my portions, eat slowly but get it done in 20 to 30 minutes, not an hour of grazing and no matter my schedule put walking back in the top 3 of things to do. Plus while my pup has gotten walked it has not been as... Shall we say... hmm... Fast or as far it has been the required 30 minutes but not much more.
How have things gone? Pretty good, if wet! I have walked in the rain several times, twice on purpose once was just bad luck. I was walking my pup our 2 mile route and we had just reached the halfway point and turned to go home when the skies opened upon us. What choice did we have? So we made our way home to a bath for the pup and a shower for me. I will say she kept looking at me like I was a meanie giving her a bath after she already had a shower! With the way the weather is looking I may need to get a doggie rain suit for my pup and maybe a rain coat for myself! But, inspite of all the rain, I am back up to 3 miles at least a day. So there rain!
The food has been a little more difficult only because I really have to prepare my food to take to work or I end up eating out and my choices eating out are limited and expensive not just talking money here! The foods I tend to be able to eat out tend to be the ones that are not really high in nutrition. Oh, yes. I could do a salad but most places put chicken on their salads and why pay for something I can't have? And if the salads don't have chicken it is some equally bad thing for me either high in fat or breaded or way salted. I know it is an excuse. So I decided to pack my lunch no excuse then! I eat what I bring and nothing more!
Hopefully, all this means that Friday when I get to report on my doctors visit it is good news and that I have gotten the habits back in full swing again.
I think part of the problem is wanting to be "normal" so I tend to make bad choices when out with people. Not really good at stating my needs and tend to just figure I'll find something to eat wherever we go. Sometimes it isn't so much a where issue as a when one. They can go all day without eating but me I need to eat every 3-4 hours or I get too hungry and have issues with eating too fast. Sigh! I am working on it and getting better at it sometimes though I feel the absolute witch when I do state my needs and get the point across. I have taken to making sure I have some sort of thing I can grab and eat when I need to so that we can just go on with our day. I don't really believe any of my friends think that I am a witch but sometimes that is how I feel. Because I want them to be happy. It is my problem not theirs.