Made It!

I left Georgia last Wednesday for Arizona, with my business partner and best friend, Melissa. Now traditionally, this has been a wonderful adventure, but this time I was really scared. You see, if there is one thing Melissa and I love to do it is EAT! I have worked SO HARD to lose this 81 lbs, and I don't want to gain an ounce of it back.

Melissa and I LOVE food. Not like a wonderful hand crafted salad full of good stuff, well we do like that, but prefer it to be fried in lard and laden in chocolate! Not the salad, whatever else we can put our lips around.

Normally on our travels, we search out tasty gourmet restaurants and never save room for dessert, although we always have it. We have made a few trips together and have had some really good food across this country.

Last year we were in Memphis. Now let me tell you about the best B-B-Q I have ever had, and I have had a lot of B-B-Q! It is a place called "Rendezvous", in the basement, down the alley right in the heart of downtown. If your ever there, do yourself a favor and stop by, it is orgasmic! We had B-B-Q nachos, nachos being a big downfall of ours and these spicy ribs, with meat falling off the bone, that you tasted for hours after eating it. It was such a treat and that doesn't even tell you about the ambiance of the place and wait staff. Just a stellar experience all around!

There was another time in Long Beach California. We stayed in hotel surrounded by beautiful restaurants, oh yeah, there was a beautiful body of water also. We were there for business, but all I could think of was getting out of each meeting and trying out the next new restaurant. We ate at one place where the dessert was enough to feed at least 4, if not more, and we ate the whole thing. I was SO sick after that conference was over. But, OH, the memories.

How is it that we allow food to surround, create, take control of every minute of our day? I mean, the world has so much to offer, there are only so many minutes in every day, there is so much variety, and I lived in this little world were the most important portion of it was taken up with what I was going to eat and when. What a waste of time. It is truly sad the years of creative energy that I have wasted on this process.

Well, I am happy to report that we made it across country without one mistake, misstep or bad food choice. We sought out salads and lean meats and most important we did NOT have dessert. I'm really quite proud of us. Also we managed to workout for around an hour every morning before we took off for the day.

I will admit that I would of rathered to have eaten all the crap and all the desserts. I would of rather have not had to sweat on the treadmill every morning. I would of rather eaten cookies and candies all the miles across the country in the truck. But I'm glad we didn't.

I'm glad I don't feel so sick and stuffed that I can't breathe, I don't miss that feeling, as much as I miss that sweet chocolate taste in my mouth. I don't miss that tired, gotta lay down, have absolutely no energy feeling. But I do miss a moist gooey brownie.

It's a trade off I guess, and today I choose trading fat cells for a healthier lifestyle. It will be worth it in the end. Because in the end, when my BMI is where it should be, I can have bits of that stuff I miss so much, and by then I probably won't even want it!