I wake up early. When I worked I was always one of the first in. When I worked and had a gym membership, I was there before 5 am. If I'm not trying to stay up to play games and drink beer, I just start waking up earlier and earlier. And I haven't stayed up late/drank beer for a long time.
So I'm standing outside of our grocery store just before 4 a.m. like a dumbass for like a solid minute before I realize it's not 24 hour. When did they change that? No one needs to buy groceries until 6 a.m.?
Past diets I recall that I slept a lot less, but I haven't been exercising nearly as much so I haven't really had that happen as much this time. In fact, for a while I was sleeping until a comfortable 4 a.m., but on the weekends I never got to sleep all the way through the night because my husband would usually wake me up while he made a snack before bed.
And now I'm waking up at a freakish 2 freaking a.m. Interestingly enough, that's about the time my husband would be making a snack and waking me up on the weekends.
It's already as hot as the sun here by the afternoon, and I like waking up between 3-4 a.m., but 2 a.m. just seems over the top somehow.
161, but it didn't seem solid. Hoping to at least maintain it tomorrow.
Nox
Accountability - Tues p.m.: Made my food and water goals. Walked >1 mile with the dog. Started to ride my bike, but my knee felt funny, and later my knees hurt a lot =/ I'll probably stay off of them tomorrow.
161.5. I hope its genuine. I really don't want to see 162 again.
Our friends get here on Thursday. The whole thing screams derailment. I'd totally take a day off and partake in whatever dining we go out to do if it wasn't for the 6 days I spent at 162. And I wouldn't worry about putting on a lb from it if it wasn't for the 6 days I spent at 162. I'd consider it worth it, if it wasn... blah blah blah.
But as it stands, I'm going to get to sit and watch 6 skinny people eat Tex-Mex and brunch this week. Go me!
"Donnie, you got struck by lightning last summer, you were on vacation in Tahoe, I don't think braces is a good idea." Avi Soloman, Magnolia
I don't think queso is a good idea. Best to get used to that notion now.
Hoping to get a bike ride and a walk today. I wish I enjoyed it more =P
This plateau has sucked so bad that I added a small yogurt to my diet at the recommendation of The Council of People Who Make Money Off of Selling Dairy Products to Overweight People. I hate yogurt. So to eat it I dipped some whole grain Ryvita bread in it, hoping my body would say, 'oh wow, a whole grain, perhaps I should metabolize this'. Then I tried to mentally will my period to start, thinking that my cycle may have something to do with it.
I really hope that I'm not back up to 162 again tomorrow.
Made my water goal. Barely stayed under my food goal (1189 cals today). Walked a mile in the a.m. with the dog, then another one mid-morning with my husband. Snacked a bunch on ritz chex mix so I had a lot of salt =/
I hardly watched any Millennium at all because I stayed up too late playing Warcraft with my husband. This will probably only make sense to FTW!, but I was having a pretty good time drinking wine and killing these fat ogres with my hunter alt. And the game is pretty, so my toon was in this really pretty pavillion that was stuffed with these fat ogres.
Then I went to an Ony raid with my undead priest (my main) which is fine because it's a short event, but I bailed before we went to MC. That's just too long of a raid. I had important things to do, specifically I had to put on a Millennium and pass out.
It was fun though. A lot of laughing on teamspeak, so it was a fun Friday.
My weight doesn't count today because it's just water loss from the wine, but I have to admit, it's nice to see it be under 162, even if it is false. It will bounce right back up again tomorrow though.
So I have my food and water goals today. Exercise pending on hangover. Booo.
Today I'm getting a haircut that I don't really need. My bob has really taken priority since I've been trying to not be a super-chunk. I'm thinking that the sleek, groomed line of a well maintained bob swinging just below my jaw will undoubtably draw attention away from the belly pudge.
I think my 'do guy will have to trim a whole 1/4". Even my husband was like, "why are you getting a haircut?" and i was like, "I don't know." I'll add some more bangs to justify the expense.
So our company gets here next Thursday. It's really a special thing as I'm so looking forward to spending some time with these folks. It's definitely the kind of event that I would have taken a day off of my diet to drink and dine. Oh yes there will be drinking and dining. I'm just not sure how much drinking and dining I'll actually be able to afford to do this time =/
But I'll just have to see how I feel. It's more of a waste to miss something that could be a lot of fun by not participating in the above mentioned drinking and dining, and I don't think it's the special events that make people into super-chunks. It's the days in-between.
And besides, I'm a freakin' time bomb on this diet during the day. I'm great in the morning, but my mood slowly ticks away as the day goes by until I'm just a short, hungry, angry woman who needs to go to sleep. Thank gawd I didn't buy that archery set.
So, I have a 1 lb loss since last Friday, and I'm going to drink wine and watch a disc of Millennium tonight. I like the tormented Frank Black, and his skinny wife who was freakishly ingrateful that he saved her life by killing that guy who tied her up in the basement. I would have been giving my husband high 5's and stuff for saving me. But she's like 'omg frank, you're so dark now!' - hello, he's been dark and tormented by disturbing visions since the first season. I'm guessing she knew this when she married him. Dr. Phil would rip her to shreds.
Made my food and water goals. Took my bike out 3 times, but it was one too many and my knees are sore now. It's really tricky because they didn't bother me while I was riding, just after.
I doubt I'll make my mini-goal of 159.9999 before our friends get here. They arrive next Thursday. Just too close, but I guess that's fine.
Tomorrow is wine day. I don't feel like I've lost enough weight this week to have wine, but I also don't feel like skipping it ;)
Let's see... dishes, clean the microwave, clean/wax kitchen floor.
Ride my little 4.3-ish mile bike ride through the neighborhood twice today. Walk a mile with the dood.
Short term: do not eat cottage cheese. Long term: enforce a household rule about putting a paper towel over anything cooked in the microwave at all costs. (Someone has to be reading this and thinking, 'oh crap, my microwave is gross too'. Probably not Ashley or FTW!, but someone is. =P)
162 again. At least I know it's a real weight, and not just water. Too bad it's still "new freakin' high weight".
I think I'm about 10 lbs away from fitting back into some of my clothes. I commandeered (yes, that's spelled right, doesn't it look weird?) an old pair of my husband's khaki green shorts to bridge back down to some of mine, but... they are snug in the waist. (emote: slaps herself in the head like she forgot to drink a v8 in a timely fashion)
Hopefully, I'll burn a little of the last of these 160's off while I'm biking today.
And I think I do have pms. If I could blow things up with my mind, my husband would have been a pile of smoking ashes last night when he woke me up making popcorn.
I posted a pict of myself from early 2004 in the gallery again. I like that picture =) Just to drive home how recently that was taken, I'm still wearing those same sunglasses. Haven't even had time to break or lose them yet. (But that's all I can still wear in that picture =P I would so NOT wear a sleeveless shirt yet.)
