No exercise because I decided to give my knees a day off.
I took my bike to the store, which doesn't count because it's 2 blocks away, then had cottage cheese for lunch and was totally wiped out for the rest of the day. I think I remember this same thing the last time I made lunch out of cottage cheese.
Anyways, all I wanted to do after that was sleep and eat. Specifically, I had a rice cake binge that would blow your mind. And Special K bars (yes, plural, I had 2), a kosher dog, and some turkey slices...
The damage for the day is 970 calories, which is amazing because I never really stopped eating for very long in the afternoon. I was just hungry and tired all day. But the calories are totally under my calorie goal unless I forgot to list something.
And it was kind of like The Perfect Storm, because for dinner all I wanted was a skinny cow chocolate ice cream sandwich, so my guess is that I may have pms too.
I did not get anything done today - not even the kitchen floor. I hope tomorrow is better.
Oh yes, I'm going to live like a rockstar today and finally clean my house. I'll definitely be cleaning/waxing my kitchen floor. The sad truth of it is that I wouldn't even bother doing it, except that we may have some company at the end of this month, and we don't really know when. And they probably won't be spending much time over here, but still...
I know, it's very glamorous. Someone will probably throw panties at me or something.
162 again this morning. That's only 3 or 3.5 lbs lost for this month so far. At this rate, I'm not even going to lose the 'federally approved, safe and healthy, 10-12 lbs a month'. Hopefully, I'm building a lot of muscle riding my bike, but that's what everyone says when the scale doesn't go down.
I don't know if I should give the muscles around my knees a day off to build or not. It seems like they are trying to get stronger now that I have a low impact way to work them out. Walking was tearing them up more instead of making them stronger. If I wasn't at a lousy 3 lb loss for this month, I'd definitely give them a rest today.
Made my food and water goals. Rode my bike, and walked a mile with the dog. Imagined myself working at the comic book store. It looked a lot like me sitting on a stool wearing a Radiohead t-shirt =)
So yesterday I ordered a Radiohead t-shirt for my 'you've lost 20 lbs' reward. I've only lost 18 so far, but the shirt has to be shipped all the way from the UK, so I figure that gives me some time for the other 2 lbs. And it's neato. For a t-shirt anyways. I plan on exercising my right to consume stupid stuff every time I lose 10 lbs.
Even as I sit here, I'm trying to figure out what stupid thing I want next.
Anyways, 162 this morning. Going to ride my bike today, with consideration of my gimpy knees. I'm going to imagine myself working at my dream job selling 8 sided dice at the comic book store by our house. The bar has been lowered a little bit since the dot.com crashes, and I no longer have a skill set for corporate America. I really hated design anyways.
I'll bet I could have a bitchin' discount on Buffy action figures.
164. Ew. I'm not eating enough to gain a pound of fat, and I'm not eating too little or getting get chills or fatigue. So I hope that's just my body telling me that there was a lot of salt in the sauerkraut that I ate last night or something.
My last diet snagged up and plateaued each time my weight ended with a 4 or an 8. I really thought I could skate past that this time because I'm so much heavier.
I was just going to get new bras for my 'you've lost 20 lbs' reward, but if this is going to be such a pain in the ass, I want something cool, like a Radiohead t-shirt.
Nox
edit to add: Our clock radio alarm plays cd's and my husband is currently sleeping through a totally loud and manic verion of Hava Nagila played by Camper Van Beethoven. Really, it's turned up loud and it's very manic. I just thought that was funny. Let us rejoice and be glad!
I was munchy all day. Not for any particular food, but munchy all day. Kept my calories at 1145 and that seems kind of high since my exercise seemed weak, but maybe it was good for me.
I blame the munchies on last night's wine. I don't think it usually does that to me, but who knows.
So, food and water goals met. Walked a mile with the dog in the a.m and another one in the afternoon. Never really felt like I was burning any fat or anything. Just didn't feel very productive.
There's this song that my husband and I like a lot, but we never understood it. We looked it up yesterday and it turns out that it's 'all smart 'n stuff'. The lyrics are underneath the definitions.
Thomas Flowers was the British postal service engineer who with Alan Turing built the first (years before the americans) electronic computer (Colossus?), allegedly powered by 1500 valves. Bletchley Park (sic?): the site of english and allied efforts to break german ciphers in W.W.II. Cipher Girls: the corps of young women who were hired to work by hand all the possible permutations once a code was partially broken. Monty: Montgomery. Ultra: the Cipher Girls slang for decoded german communications Valve: English term for Vacuum tube. Tunnyfish: nickname for the german u-boat cipher, apparently the most difficult to break."
"Bletchley Park - what a lark Cipher girls, they're dressed in curls They gave to Monty the very best of their Ultra
And Thomas Flower in his hour, It's 1500 valves were powered And tunnyfish, is permanently broken"
Pretty neat. No wonder we didn't 'get it'.
So... I don't know about exercise today. My knees bothered me yesterday afternoon and evening pretty badly. I maped out the bike path I took the other day and it was 7-8 miles. My husband had told me to start with 3, but I didn't know how far I had gone.
I had a good time last night drinking wine and watching Matrix 2. I'm going to have to break down and clean my house today. I've been so lazy about housework lately, and it totally shows.
