Today I had a nightmare of a day at work.  I’m an accountant for a church and just dumped our payroll service January 1 to do payroll myself.  Today I spent all day trying to figure out how to pay a deposit of federal income taxes withheld from employees.  It was supposed to be as simple as going to an IRS web page, logging in, and paying them online.  What I didn’t know is that it takes up to 3 weeks to get approved and get a password.  Meanwhile my deposit is late, there’s another due next week, and I have the money but I don’t have the form I need to send with the money and I’m not an “officer of the corporation” so I can’t even get the form myself…  It was a lot  of web research, automated phone systems, and a couple of times I got to speak to actual people who mostly weren’t so nice.

 So I came home at 3:30 this afternoon and immediately fixed myself an Irish coffee (don’t judge me!).  Then I had a little chocolate, then some potato chips… I was afraid of where this was heading.  Fortunately, the combination of alcohol, chocolate, chips, and diet soda quickly gave me a tummy ache (thanks to a few weeks of healthy eating ).  I told my boys I had had a tough day at work and I wasn’t feeling so good.  I grabbed a blanket and hit the sofa for almost 2 hours.  Then I went out to get them Chick-Fil-A for dinner - I just didn’t have the energy to cook.  And of course I got a kids chicken nugget meal for myself - I had a coupon!

I was afraid to count it all up, but that’s what accountability is all about (and I found my food journal I lost last week - hooray!).  So I figured I used 17.5 flexpoints today - and the week just started!  But tomorrow I’ll be at the gym, in the pool, working it off.  I’m not going to let a day like this derail me and undo all the good I’ve done these past few weeks.

I’m hanging in there - hope you are, too!