Chicago

On Friday night after work Sean and I headed to Detroit so that we could stay at a park n’ fly before we caught our flight to Chicago.

The line up to get into the states was a bit long, an hour and 20 minute wait, but we had a good time joking and laughing so it went by quickly. We went to the Golden Corral in Port Huron for dinner where I had two plates of salad (with dressing on the side) and a small amount of roast beef (very, very good there). After that we headed to Detroit. On the way to Detroit we were in bumper to bumper traffic, in what seemed like construction.

Sean was getting really annoyed but it didn’t really bug me so I thought it was funny how upset he was getting. After we were bumper to bumper for almost an hour and got almost no where the traffic started getting a bit light (keep in mind this was about 10pm at night, not rush hour traffic!) Once we were out of the bumper to bumper we were annoyed because two of the three lanes on the interstate were closed for NO REASON! There was no construction going on, no holes in the road, NOTHING. So they wasted our time for nothing. But in the end we arrived safely and went to bed.

Saturday morning we woke up early and ate breakfast before catching our flight to Chicago. Our flight was good, we were in the front row of the plane and had big seats. When we touched down my dad met us and we went to the hotel to change to the OBS conference.

Let me tell you this – I did NOT want to be there. I was miserable. I didn’t want to hear what they had to say, because to be honest I didn’t want anything to do with the business at all. There was a product training with one of the Presidents team member that taught me a lot more about Herbalife products and started to plant a little seed of excitement. It is reassuring to know what high quality materials they are made from. I know I have been taking them regularly for about 3 weeks now and haven’t noticed a big difference, but they do take time to work, especially when I had some of my symptoms to the extreme. It  will still take a bit of time, but I am going to stick it out and I am going to get rocking results!

I was still very uncomfortable sitting so long and so I kept getting up and walking around at the back of the room while they were talking. Slowly, little bit by little bit I started to think more and more about keeping doing my business. Our chairman gave a really good message about stretching yourself and not giving up. The people in our lives who think we are going to fail are what drive us to keep going.

The Sunday morning training started at 9am but I was just SO exhausted and tired and miserable I decided to sleep for a while and then go to the training for the 1pm break out sessions. At this point I was still wishy washy about starting again because of everything I have been through the past year. Then listening to Tanya I started to get really motivated and excited and I knew at that point that this business will be a big part of my life for ever. I was understanding concepts that hadn’t clicked before and things started making sense and I wanted to jump in with two feet and just go for it!

There was a voice in my head though that was telling me just to wait a bit though. I ned to still give myself some time to get better and focus on me before I jump back in and go for it. I have given myself the deadline of the August training which is in Georgia. I am going to keep working on myself and put all of my effort into my product result and personal health. After the August training I am going to jump into this full and give it everything I have. I will use the August training as my pump up and really give er.

After we left the training yesterday we went to dinner and of course we got deep dish pizza. I knew that we were going to be having this and was so looking forward to it. I ordered a salad because I knew that I only wanted one piece of pizza. It took about 40 minutes to cook, which was fine, and when it got there I was salivating.

We just got a regular and this was ONE PIECE! I ate it very slowly and savoured every single bite. I stopped and ate my salad in between bites and of course I was talking a lot too. I can honestly say that when I was done my 1 piece, and ½ of my salad I was stuffed. It was SO good and worth every single calorie. I tracked honestly and tried to over estimate a bit so hopefully I was able to get it right. I had planned for this for a long time and felt very good about my choice to have 1 piece, my salad, and water.

We also knew that we were going to a donut shop too that had a very large selection of fresh donuts. When we got there we decided to order ½ dozen and I got a knife so I could take a small bite of each one. I LOVED all of them but 1 (I tried 5). The one I didn’t care for I only took a small bite then left the rest, and the others I took pieces of and really really enjoyed them. Again, this was something we planned for and I tracked them as accurately as possible.

This morning we went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel and I had a really healthy selection that has left me quite satisfied.

I know that most of this post is about the food I ate this weekend, but I am really really proud of myself for planning and tracking, and sticking to it. Given that we were sitting so much and in the car a lot, I didn’t have a chance to get my exercise but I am going to kick that up this week for sure.

Since our hotel was 30 minutes away from downtown Chicago we didn’t get a chance to see anything there. After pizza we were going to do a drive through downtown howeverpolice had everything blocked off for the NATO summit that was happening.

Now we are on our way home and I have made myself some new goals, that I will share with you over the next few posts.

Tomorrow is Sean and my two year anniversary so be ready for a bit of a sappy post J

Talk to you all soon!