Chocolate truffle

OK! So....good and bad news. Good news! I swam 30 laps today at the pool and I lost another pound! I haven't seen that number on the scale in three or four months!!! I got really tired during my workout and I was practically panting. It was terrible! But I felt good! I went off the diving board again...twice! Once again, my brother helped me out with the workout. I'm starting to realize how much of a benefit it is to have someone there to motivate you. When you've got someone that keeps saying telling you to keep going, it's kind of hard to stop because you don't want to disappoint them. So that was the good part of the day.
 Bad news, I relapsed...I had two chocolate truffles....they were so good. Look at it...it was just staring at me. Healthy eating is really hard...I'm learning in my behavior modification class that one way to change one's behavior is to make competing behaviors less likely to happen by increasing the effort it takes to get it to happen. I think that's why I keep going back to unhealthy foods because they're easier to find. There isn't really anything good and healthy to eat. I need to fix that, somehow. It's difficult. I'm a broke college student so it's not like I can buy healthy food for the entire family.
Some friends from high school and I had a small Olympics themed get-together tonight. (Queen Elizabeth and James Bond? Very cool!) That was where I got the chocolate truffles. We also had pizza and spring rolls which were different, but very good! I tried to make something else healthy to balance out the meal so I attempted to make a fruit pizza. Worst kitchen fail of all time! I attempted to bake the fruit pizza in the oven...on a plastic pan. I didn't really think. So I ended up almost burning the house down, fruit and fruit dip,and some weird peach glaze. I kind of balanced it out...it would have been nice to serve fruit in a different way, but I did my best. I think I'll attempt to make it sometime soon...with a metal pizza pan this time!
In honor of the 2012 Olympics, today's quote comes from an Olympic athlete from 1996. "And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record." -Noureddine Morceli. So today I might have taken a step back. But I did swim 30 laps today. Yesterday I swam 25. Tomorrow I hope to swim more and work off those truffles. While they were REALLY good (my friends are awesome cooks), I can have any more sweets. I'll just fall off the wagon again. And even if I can't eat healthy like I plan to, I'll just have to make do with what I have and just cut back. Today, I don't think I did my best as far as eating. But I do think I did my best as far as working out. So, working out, doing fine. Healthy eating something to work on. More tomorrow! ~Emily B.