Cinco de Mayo!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo, everyone!  

Any and all holidays in the Diet Mentality Era of Beth Crawford's life were good excuses to let loose and break the 'rules'.  Now in the Post-Diet Mentality Era, I can celebrate how I want while still making good decisions.  Because you know what?  I don't need to cram it all in before the next diet starts.  I don't have to think, "Well, I better drink 10 margaritas and have 16 cheese enchiladas, and a bazillion sopapillas because after tomorrow, I will be on a diet and will never have those things EVER AGAIN!"  

Man does it feel good to be free.  Today I went for a walk to Whole Foods for lunch, which is 2.4 miles round trip, and had a spinach salad, part of a cup of soup (I got full) and some freshly made fruit juice (ran out of ingredients at home).  It was great.  Everything was delicious and the walk there and back was very nice.  A little chilly, but mountain-less and calm.  When I went to the back of the store, I noticed a sign for cupcakes, so I wandered over and decided to get an organic chocolate cupcake.  I wasn't hungry for it just then, so I walked it back home with me.  After an hour or so, I had that cupcake and it was delightful.

When Joe got home from work, we walked to this really awesome bicycle shop about a mile away to pick up his bike that was being tuned up and then we talked 1.5 miles in the other direction to go have dinner at a Mexican restaurant.  By the time we go home, I had walked 5.4 miles.  And I feel great!

For dinner at the restaurant, I had a strawberry margarita and portabella mushroom fajitas.  So delicious.  The waiter forgot to bring us chips and salsa and I was glad he did.  I would have eaten WAY too many and wouldn't have been able to enjoy my awesome fajitas as well as I did.  

A year ago, this day would have been different.  I would have driven to McDonalds or another fast food restaurant for lunch and then I wouldn't have wanted to walk with Joe ALL the way to the bike shop and to dinner.  I may have still had a cupcake at some point in the day but would have felt really guilty about it all day.  And for dinner I probably would have had two margaritas, chicken fajitas, and a whole heap of chips and salsa.  I would have been way more stuffed and would have driven home and been miserable and guilty.  Currently, I feel a little too full, but nothing like I would have experienced in the past.  Plus the half mile walk home, though a little chilly, was a nice way to help digest.  

Joe and I are now back home getting ready to relax on the couch and watch some Netflix.  Life is good. Muy bueno.