I now have a title for today's blog.

Food Log
B-oatmeal, egg beaters
S-zoneperfect bar
L-homemade chicken fried rice, 1/2 yogurt (shared with Carter )
S-mango, 2 cheese quesadillas (I was starving!)
D-2 very small pieces of pizza; topping on polenta pie (see below)
S-

Close call with dinner disaster
Tonight I tried a new recipe for dinner called polenta pie. It had a cornmeal pie base with chili beans, cheese and crushed tortilla chips for topping.
Well, it didn't turn out as the cornmeal bottom didn't set and I don't think I cooked it long enough.
But I started eating the topping, which had my major trigger food-my favorite kind of tortilla chips.
And I wanted more chips. I wanted to tear into the whole bag. This is why this is a trigger food that I just have to stay away from.
The good thing is I thought it through. I thought about how I've gone at least 3 days without triggers and how good that has felt. And how awful I would feel if I ate the chips.
So I threw out that mess and we made gluten free pizza.
I wasn't very hungry since I had those cheese quesadillas. So I only had 2 very small pieces.

Exercise Report
I did Lower Body workout today. But while I was doing lunges, my quad muscle on my left leg stiffened up and it felt like I pulled something. I stretched it out and tried again, but couldn't finish the lunges. I was able to do squats and the rest of my workout though.

Joy Report
During my son's OT appt today, I had 45 mins to myself to just read. I read my "When Women Stop Hating Their bodies" book and gained a lot of interesting insight into the terrible things we say to ourselves about our bodies and why we do that.

Grattitude Report
I believe God is really watching out for my husband and especially today. Back in October he submitted a resume to a company. They called him a couple weeks ago and he had an interview last week and a second interview today. While he was at the interview, the shipping area at his present job had an accident. The storage area above where he works collapsed and came crashing down on the shipping area where my husband usually is! His co-worker said if my husband had been there, he would have broken his neck. Just another reason for my husband to find another job. He warned them that they should not put so much stuff in that storage area and that it didn't look safe (the area above him was bowing in) but they wouldn't listen to him.
Anyway, God is taking care of us and I am so thankful that my husband was not there today.