Day Eighty-Six - Black Friday

Well folks, it's the day after Thanksgiving, a.k.a Black Friday!  There is shopping to be done and fights to be won.  There are deals to be had and people to make mad.  Now I'm not here to upset anyone who does go out into the craziness that is Black Friday (especially since some genius decided that Friday now begins on Thursday).  In fact, I once drove an hour and a half to get cheap computer parts at CompUSA when I was younger (yeah, that's how a geek does Black Friday... at least before Newegg and Amazon came along).  The thing that bothers me is that Black Friday seems to make us all hypocrites.  We say "thank you for all we are blessed with" on Thursday, only to say "give me more" on Friday.  Even today, I was looking online to see what deals are out there for electronics (I didn't find anything, I guess I'll have to wait until Cyber Monday now).  It is so easy to fall into the materialism of it all.

Now if you are still reading this, that means you either aren't a Black Friday shopper, or you aren't terribly offended at me for knocking it.  I'm glad you're still with me here, because it's now time for me to attempt to relate this journey to Black Friday.  You see the day after Thanksgiving really is a very important day.  For me it's the first full day of watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music (yeah, I'm not the all year round guy.  Just between Thanksgiving and Christmas).  It is also the first day of Thanksgiving leftovers (unless you are the person who has leftovers for dinner on Thanksgiving night).  I wonder what everyone's favorite leftovers are?  Mine are rolls turned into turkey sliders.  I take a roll (my favorite are Sister Shubert rolls) and put some turkey and stuffing on it.  Some people like cranberry and mustard or mayonnaise.  I think I may have added ketchup in the past (don't judge, my relationship with ketchup is very complicated).  I usually have a side of sweet potato casserole (without the marshmallows this year, because Bekah snuck those off earlier) and some green bean casserole.  For those of you who's goal is weight related, let me give you some caution.  I made sure to still measure my food and weigh the meat.  I counted calories, because just like Thanksgiving I don't want to set myself back.  It is so easy to overdo it when scrounging through Thanksgiving leftovers.  In fact, let me encourage you to be careful for the whole weekend.  That goes for everyone, no just those of us trying to lose weight.  Don't get complacent in your journey just because you have a few days off work.  Reaching you goal doesn't involve a break.  I'm not taking a break from my journey.  I'm losing my butter half.

Great day for calories and I just finished another workout.  Here's to doing the same tomorrow!