I just looked and I only posted once in May and in June, so I guess it's time for a July post.
I haven't much news. Tony and I go on and off plan, though last Sunday we spent the entire day planning and shopping. WW has a "pantry to plate" cookbook so we stocked up on items they recommended that looked like stuff we would use.
The on again, off again eating is better than some of the other parts of life. I never get any exercise right now. My thesis looks just as bad as it did a month ago. Although I met with my advisor last week so maybe I have a little more focus now. I certainly hope so. Also, I have a due date - that should help me (at least 2 days before the due date it should help me!!!)
I still feel overwhelmed by the stuff that needs to get done. And new things keep popping up. One of my tortoises is sick again. Tony and I are planning ways to make their environment better and healthier for them. He's planning to do work on their enclosure Saturday, while I go monitor my wells again in Zzyzx.
I wish I had great things to report, maybe I'd do it more often. But I get tired of saying I haven't made any progress...
KBB told me a while back that my weight chart looked like a squiggle. I had started to make it go steadily down for a few weeks, but the past few were hard and the squiggle is back. But that's temporary. The visitors are gone so Tony and I are able to get back into the groove. I'm even tracking again today!
I've missed being here but maybe now that I'm back on track I will spend more lunch breaks at my desk and reading up on y'all!
In that time, I've only had 3 weeks in which my weekly WI was a gain. One was Key West and it took a couple weeks for it to all be gone. But overall things are starting to look pretty good!
Tony and I are both being very good about journaling. Even bad days, like the party last Sunday when they had fried chicken. Now, I pull off the skin and save myself a few points, but nonetheless, 3 pieces of fried chicken (4 for Tony, who eats the skin) can really add up, especially when added to the homemade potato and other salads, the beer, etc. But still we journaled it (almost all of it, by Monday we probably "forgot" some stuff).
Tony has also had a lot of losses lately. This seems to be really working for us!
I've also been bringing my lunch to work a lot more often. Here's what a great man I have: Tony packs my lunch every day! He makes me a sandwich or puts some leftovers in a dish. If its's a sandwich I get a bag of WW cheese twirls or pretzel chips, and I get a couple pieces of fruit and a WW 1-point mini bar. Isn't he the greatest?
And now that I've eaten my sandwich, twirls, and bar, I need to go log it (we journal online) and get back to my online training for work. I just wanted to take a moment to say hi because I haven't done so in a while.
Hi!
Alright, back to work. Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Tracking is very eye-opening. My WPA was down to 4.5 after Friday. Friday is my first day of the week. I'm now at -3.5 WPAs. I think I could make that up with activity points, if I could find the time to earn some.
Tony and I are tracking again. We are actaully learning a lot about our food habits and our recipes. And the WW online tracker!
I'm staying home tomorrow to work on my thesis. There isn't much to do in the office and there is a lot to do here. I am hoping to get in a nice long walk with the dogs when I need a break tomorrow.
I'm sort of struggling again with the concept of having not enough time to get things done. The house is a mess. I'm not exaggerating. It's really aweful. There literally is laundry all over. That's Tony's fault, but still it's there and it's driving me crazy and I don't have time to do anything about it. Maybe tomorrow I'll also get in some cleaning-the-house activity. It will be good in more ways than one.
I just updated the Excel spreadsheet I use to track my weight, and I have had only 2 gains in the past 10 weeks. One was that really ugly 6 pounds from Key West, but that's gone now.
Tony and I stayed after the meeting today for a getting started session. We are recording our food. Which means, for the WW site, we have to do Flex - so we switched. I was looking at the e-tools yesterday and I found some great recipes - they were Core and they only added to 7 points so that was our dinner last night.
If Tony can stay focused on tracking, I think I can too. We just started yesterday so we'll see what the weekend brings (eating when not near a computer to record it!). Hopefully we'll stick with it this time!
Tomorrow is another trip to Zzyzx for me - but at least I don't have to do any surveying (see previous post), just my regular monitoring! Yipee!
And I'm on a 2-week losing streak, I hope I can keep it going.
So, I haven't commited my thoughts to writing in a couple of weeks and I have some things to get out in the open. Once I've said them outoud, or rather written them in black and white, they'll be out of my head. Somewhat.
Exercise. Time. These two words do not go into a sentence together in my world right now. Yes, I do know how important it is. But I also know how desperate and stressed I am about my thesis (so much it makes me cry daily. Can I lose water weight in tears?).
I have to admit to myself that I cannot do it all. And the thesis has to get done. Has to. Soon. Before I flip completely. I can't stand this much longer. So, I have to let something sit aside. It can't be work. It can't be sleep (have you ever seen me on too little sleep? NOT a pretty picture. You think crying every day is bad?!) To some extent, it's Tony - thank goodness he is understanding and also really busy with his website right now.
If I stop trying to do everything (and doing all of it half-assed) and just focus on finishing this, I can get back to normal. That means 3-4 days to the gym. Wogs with the dogs. The dog park. Walks with Tony. 5-Ks. Speaking of dogs, one is bumping me with her nose now. We've been gone all day and she's lonely. Next, she'll go chew up a shoe or something. Sorry, girl.
Anyway, I'm going to do what I can find time to do but not commit to anything right now. For example, last night I went for a 2-hour walk on the strand with my friend and the dogs. They were as pooped as I was by the end. But I'll bet they don't have the blisters I have... I figure we went about 6 miles!
So, some exercise will pop up. I am thinking of walking the 1.5 miles or so to our party tomorrow and ride home with Tony. But that assumes I can get an early enough start. We'll see how time pans out.
Foodwise, Tony and I talked and we are goingback to Flex. His Dr. told him to go on a website and post every bit of food he eats. All about the calories. It's a start. I told him we can eat Core foods (mostly) but count points or calories or whatever, and see if that jump-starts us. Honestly, we haven't been following ANY plan so anything will help. Anything.
I think I've talked enough. It's 8 and I am going to sit here for at least 2 more hours working on my paper.
Oh my goodness. I did not want to post that weight.
I had a fantastic vacation in Key West. I kept my eating pretty much in control. I ran 2 mornings. I walked a lot.
Unfortunately, I also drank a lot. Every day. And I'm paying for it now by seeing the scale up 6 freaking pounds. But it's weight that should come off just as quickly. My immediate plan is to drink as much water as I can possibly consume, in an effort to flush the alcohol out.
I don't guess I want to talk about it any more right now. Have a good weekend.
Day two - the first day of my vacation was ALL travel - from the taxi at 0900 to Tony pikcing me up in Miami and driving the 3 hours back to Key West because my LA to Miami flight was delayed - by THREE HOURS! So rather that have me in a hotel and spending all day yesterday trying to catch a flight here, he rented a car and drove up Thursday night. He's too good to me!
Food-wise I'm really doing okay - maybe a couple too many drinks during last night's "Duval Crawl" (gotta buy the t-shirt!) but we've waked a lot and I've been making pretty good meal choices. Tony went to the marked Thursday and bought lots of lunch meats and cheese and tortillas, so we eat in our room a lot which is not only healthier, but cheaper as well!
I don't really have time to go read up, but I hope you are all having a good weekend!
So, I say "sweets only one day a week" - and I figure I'm going to the LD on Friday, so I'll surely eat dessert. So I had a 1" cube of birthday cake in the office. Then, no apples. No brownie. No ice cream. NOBODY ordered dessert! Well, I refuse to let 1" of cake be "my day" if something else better comes up over the weekend.
Saturday I drove to the desert. We drove 3 hours, wandered around in the desert for 2 hours, then were ready to head out. I was really hungry. We went to the Mad Greek in Baker and I ordered a Greek salad ---- and a peanut butter shake. Something better had come up.
Yesterday I volunteered at the Automotive Driving Museum opening weekend. I was selling tickets for $0.25 hot dogs and sundaes. I had one of each. Something else had come up. It was a small sundae, not a crazy wild amount of ice cream. I also got the "home alone" munchies and ate 2 packs of WW cookies last night.
Added up, it still doesn't equal the stomach-wrenching I caused last Sunday, but I did "cheat" on my one-day challenge. This would probably have been a good week to be an extra good girl, because Thursday morning I'm on a plane to Key West, and I'm sure that I'll consume sugar in some form or another more than one day while I'm there!
I'm having a hard time with the 6 am wog too. Tony didn't get in till after 11 last night and by the time we got home and got to sleep it was midnight and I couldn't face 6 am today. But I'm wearing heels and walking is more of a chore today, does that count for something? I need to deliver some Jafra tonight, maybe I'll go home and hitch up the dogs and we'll run over to the park to make the delivery.
