Mess up. Like, bigtime mess up.

Yesterday, for one reason or another, was not a good day in my little healthy world here. I made mistake after mistake after mistake, and then to top off those mistakes, I made some more bad choices.

I don't really have any excuses either. I was busy at work, but that's no reason to just make horrible decisions. I had an event after work, but that shouldn't have caused me to make such dumb mistakes.

Ready for fess up time? Here she goes.

1. I brought my workout clothes, but didn't workout over lunch.
I was busy at work so I don't think I had time to take a full-on workout lunch complete with shower. But my plan from the get-go was to just lift weights and I normally don't shower after that. When I saw how busy I was I instantly thought, "Yup, not making it to the gym." I didn't fight my urge to skip. I didn't think of where else I could fit it in. I just didn't go.

2. I packed a lunch, but still went ventured out into the skyways and ate out.
Not only did I eat out, but I had Chinese. Like, worst decision ever. The lunch I brought wasn't anything I was excited about, but it was lunch. I should have eaten it. Plus, I am constantly trying to not spend money. Hence, packing a lunch. Fail on two counts.

3. I followed up my Chinese lunch with a brownie.
A coworker of mine emailed out that she brought brownies. I don't pass these brownies and they're nowhere in my eyesight. I didn't think about them at all yesterday. But then I overheard someone else say "brownie" and almost like clockwork I got up from my desk and went to find one for myself. Was I hungry? No. Was I even craving chocolate? No (and that's a rarity).

4. I planned a post-work run, but let laziness win.
I heard that it was raining all day but then when I got out of work it was beautifully sunny. "Hmmm, I should go on a run!" I thought. Nope, that was instantly stopped with time management thoughts. I didn't have time to run and shower before this event I was going to. So I just skipped any ideas of a run.

5. I did have a semi-healthy dinner.
A Boca chicken patty and corn. I'll take it. This was probably the best decision of my day. Sad.

6. At this event, I had beers. A multitude of beers.
No need to explain this one. I enjoy my brewskis. I planned to just have one or two. Well, I had four. On a weeknight! Don't worry, it gets worse.

7. After this event, I went to a late night happy hour.
The event I was at was right next to one of my favorite late night happy hours, Legends in Northeast Minneapolis. They have HUGE mugs of beer for $2 after 9 and half price apps. Well, I went just with intentions to get a beer. But then everyone started to order food....

8. At late night happy hour, I ordered tater tots. TATER TOTS!
I will happily admit that I didn't eat the whole plate by myself, there was lots of sharing going on, but still! Why did I need these? I wasn't even hungry. I just had my food beer goggles on. UGH.

9. Then this morning to counteract some of this, I was going to get up at 6 a.m. and hit the gym.
Well, you guessed it. Alarm goes off, Sarah doesn't get up. FAIL!


The only thing I can do at this point is just admit my mistakes and move on. I'm going to go to the gym for a bit today even though we have a company lunch. I just want to get some weight lifting in. And then I have tennis tonight. So I'll get some activity in.

I just hate when I have days like this. At the time I wasn't even thinking about how bad these decisions were, but now this morning I started to make a check list of where I went wrong in my head (and it looked something like this blog post) and I was just pissed at myself.

It's not that I even gained 5 pounds yesterday or anything, but I just FEEL like crap. I'm super thirsty (I'm blaming my beer + tater tots combo here), my stomach hurts, I'm tired as heck, and bloated like a mother.

You live, you learn, you move on. Right? Well, I'm trying.