A Day At The Fair

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The Fair is in town and we had to go. Since the fair started yesterday, they are holding special admission prices this entire Labor Day Weekend. We got in for $1, but parking was $15. They had $1 soda from 1pm-4pm (or maybe it was 'til 5pm).



Originally I had been planning on taking a 5 mile walk before heading to the Fair, but I didn't. I stayed up a bit late last night so this morning I did not feel like getting up. I figured I was going to get some walking in at the Fair any way, so all I had to do was to be careful of what I ate.

I had breakfast at home and packed a lunch. How'd I do? Pretty good. I had 1 treat and turned a blind eye to the calories. Curly fries with chilli and cheese. Ah! I did not have the whole thing. I had somewhere between 1/4 to 1/3 of basket. I threw away a good portion of it so I would not be tempted to nibble on them some more. They were yummy so I know I could have finished the whole thing by myself.

It was a hot day and so the cold beer was tempting, but not tempting enough to get me to cave in. I loaded up my water bag with just under 2 liters of water. Then I stuffed it full of ice until I had a full load of 3 liters. I kept drinking cold refreshing water all day long. I did have 1 soda, but I think that might be mute point. I drank ALL 3 LITERS OF WATER. To top it off, when I got home I had another 16oz.

For dinner I had a 1 small grilled chicken breast with a large salad (no croutons), and 2 oz of light ranch dressing. I took a peak at my Fitbit (my pedometer) and it said I had walked over 10K steps, so I splurged, I had another soda. Maybe I should not have, but I did.... then I had another 8oz of water.

I am so excited I went to the fair and did not load up on all the non-healthy deep fried stuff I used to be so easily tempted by last year. Yay! I started thinking about how much I want to share this little NSV (Non-Scale Victory) with my Sparkpeople Live group and I remembers I might not be able to. It bummed me out, and unfortunately am still bummed about it. *sigh*

I used to post on SparkPeople's Facebook page every time I made an entry on my SparkPage on SparkPeople.com. I asked and was told this was okay. All of a sudden my posts would not show. I sent SparkPeople.com an email inquiring about this. I find out I am blocked. Why? Because I posted a link to my blog, ... my blog which resides on SparkPeople.com? Well, they can't say for sure that is why. I am really bummed about this. I was not given a warning. I got blocked, I asked, and they can't tell me why either? I am not happy about this. I hope this gets resolved favorably FAST. I want to continue making entries on my SparkPage at SparkPeople.com

So I am writing this blog entry and . . . it will sit in cyberspace because I can't share a link to it on Sparkpeople's Facebook page.
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My motivation is pretty down low right now. I feel like I've been told I can't talk, I can't share with others, I have to keep quiet. I never knew how much a part of me SparkPeople was until now.

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