Dieting at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

I decided to take the day off today to spend some quality time with the fam.  The weather was perfect, so we decided to go to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. It's basically a livestock show with a giant carnival next to it.  Do you know what they serve at Carnivals????  Just about everything is fried or on a stick -- neither of which are good for the diet.  Luckily, it was a Friday in Lent so that ruled out most of the cuisine.  That didn't keep me from staring/drueling at all the food people where eating.  Lots of BBQ, Giant Burritos, Giant Sausage on a stick.  I'm pretty sure I scared a couple kids looking at their burritos.  We ended up getting a bowl of crawfish etoufee and a fried shrimp plate to share between Marilyn, Tyler, and I.  While fried shrimp probably isn't the best choice, at least I only got one plate and we split it -- the old me would have gotten two.

So while we're eating, I look at the booth right next to us and what do I see?  I giant Funnel Cake on the sign.  OMG -- can you say flashback???  I don't remember where I had my first funnel cake, but I remember it was at some fair back in the day when I was probably 5 or 6.  I'll have to admit....I broke down and got it.  Guess that means I need to burn some extra calories to make up for it.

For dinner, we did good and split a foot long tuna sub from subway.  

I haven't been doing too well on the working out part of my sacrifice (i.e. I havn't done anything).  I'm gonna run this weekend some, and next week for sure.  I'm scared to start the P90X work-out.  I think I'll watch the first video before I attempt it -- just to make sure I can do it.  Once you start, it's 90 straight days of working out -- intense!!

I went to the hardware store today to get some lawn fertilizer.  Afterwards, I drove through the Culver's parking lot to see what the flavor of the day was -- it was Mint Brownie, but that's not the point.  Once I realized what I was doing, I thought "Why am I even here in this parking lot?  Am I really going to buy this stuff?".  I knew the answer was no....just thought it was interesting that I put myself in the situation.  It was almost second nature until I snapped out of it -- perhaps some deep seeded psychological perversion that draws me to all food bad for me.  Good thing I was able to drive away.