Junk Food Run! The End Is Near!

Friday! Friday is the day that the challenge will end. Can you sense the excitement in my writing?  Well if you can't, let me tell you, I'm excited!  What am I most excited for?  Well, let me tell you:

• Cottage Cheese
• String Cheese
• Milk
• Whole grain waffles with butter.  (I can have butter now, but butter without the waffles is just not the same!)
• Not having to score myself everyday.  It's been VERY helpful and I recommend this to people who are looking for some extra accountability, but I'm ready for a break.
• Not stretching every single day.  Yep, this is one thing that I will NOT continue.  Stretching bores me beyond belief.  I know it's good for me.  I've done it every single day for the past 7 1/2 weeks, but I still can not stand it.
• Cereal with cold milk.

I'm so surprised at the foods that I am craving these days.  As you can probably tell, my body wants dairy, in a bad way.  And I fully intend to give it dairy once this challenge is over.  

One thing that I'm not missing is all of the bread and pasta.  I love bread and pasta, who doesn't?!  But I haven't missed it like I though I would.  I thought for sure I would just curl up and die without pasta.  But, here I am, still standing!  I found spaghetti squash and fell in love.

I went on a quick "junk food" run yesterday.  It was actually a "re-stock my kitchen with foods that I can finally eat again run".  Loud and proud.....COTTAGE CHEESE!  You can bet your behind that I'm eating that for breakfast on Saturday morning!  I asked Brian if he wanted anything.  His response....ranch and pizza!  So I got my hubs ranch and pizza.  

Take a look at my "junk food" below.  I'd say I did pretty good!  Behind the yogurt is some cocoa almonds.  They are not approved for the challenge, but I'll be eating them come Saturday!  Almonds with a little cocoa powder on them....Mmmm!!  I would say I did pretty good.  This challenge has really helped me to take a good hard look at my food choices.  I don't want crap constantly going into my body.  Every package that I picked up I turned around and read the ingredient label!

I am so proud of how Brian has done in this challenge.  He is hands down killing it!  His results have been amazing.  He wants to continue with many of the habits and I think that is awesome!  Next Monday we will start 22 Minute Hard Corps together and complete 8 weeks of that together.  We figured if we could make it through 8 weeks of the Whole Life Challenge, 8 weeks of 22 Minute Hard Corps will be easy!  I suppose that will be the focus of my future blogs.  Expect to see lots of family workout updates. 

I've learned a lot about people on this journey as well.  I will leave you with this today.  Your character shines true by how you treat others.