Discipline and Commitment

Discipline and commitment, two things needed to succeed in living a more healthy lifestyle and in controlling your blood sugar.  Are these things easy?  Not for me.
When are the most difficult times?  Whenever my schedule/routine changes.  As long as we will be home in the evenings and I have dinner planned, I am fine.  However, when unexpected things come up and I haven't planned and prepared for dinner, I struggle and often fail.  Over the past two weeks I have struggled and failed most evenings because my husband was in need of a car and his work schedule and the hours that car lots are open didn't allow much time.  Therefore, we were out several evenings in one week searching, and when we finally found a car and decided to make a purchase on a Saturday late afternoon, until all was said and done, it was past dinner time, and I had nothing planned, so we ended up eating at a restaurant, as we had the other evenings we were out searching.  I try very hard to stay away from the fast food restaurants, but it doesn't always work.
So, what do I do when I've had these struggles and failures?  I get back on track as soon as possible.  I try to keep our schedule/routine as simple and controlled as possible which enables me to plan dinners.  This works most of the time.  We don't often have times like the past two weeks and I am grateful for that.  So, I look through my Fix-it-and-Forget-it Diabetic and Fix-it-and-Enjoy-it cookbooks and plan meals and make my store list from the recipes.  That way I have a plan and those are the meals we eat for the week.  It helps me to stay on track and feel good both physically, because I am eating right, and mentally, because I know that I am eating what I should and therefore am not stressed out.
Now, if I could just get our weather to cooperate so that I could start taking a walk every evening, with our dog, that would be great!  Hopefully tomorrow.