Day 2 - a new day

FOOD - Last night as I was watching my nightly fare of tv (there was just nothing on, but did that stop me?) I decided that I was - SURPRISE! - Hungry. But I decided to give in to my good girl instead of my bad girl and grabbed a clementine from the box I bought earlier in the evening, instead of the break and bake chocolate chip cookies that Rob made for dessert. That clementine tasted just AWFUL, I mean, really REALLY bad -- not even a hint of that normal citrusy sweet flavor. I don't know if you can take back a box of fruit and claim false advertising... can you? Or should I pitch the entire box and call it a loss? Not to be deterred from eating, and again deferring to the good girl, I grabbed a Kroger brand "chewy Trail Mix bar" of the fruit and nut variety. Oh. My. God. This is the most exquisite non-chocolate covered yummy treat I have had in a long long time. And best of all, they were on sale - three boxes (6 bars per box) for $5. According to the package, normally they are $2.59 a box. I felt SATISFIED at the end and didn't pine for anything else. I'm literally going to go to the store and drop $15 to get 9 more boxes of these things. I highly recommend you girls check them out!!! I woke up this morning and ate a bowl of three packs of instant oatmeal -- 2 plain mixed with 1 maple & brown sugar. YUM. That has gotten me to just 1 minute ago, when I felt compelled to split another one of those Trail Mix bars with Lucie.

MOOD - The 10 o'clock hour has come and gone and I have not started foraging. This must be because of the super-size oatmeal portion, which, if it staves off hunger for longer in the morning, might be a good way to go. At work I am simply famished at 10 a.m. Instead, I am planning to have a nice salad for lunch, and that half a trail mix bar should keep me going until then. To recap: the good girl has continued to win the war since dinner, and that makes me feel better about myself and the possibility that I could actually side with the good girl on a more-or-less permanent timeframe. But I'm sure the bad girl is concocting a plan to derail the entire process in the next several hours... those break and bake cookies are just sitting there on the counter, afterall....