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Monday, January 21, 2008
Well, I weighed in today at 222 which is 4lbs down from last Monday so woohoo! I was a little nervous about today’s weigh in because I went over on my calories yesterday, had a lot of high sodium foods and it’s TOM so yeah, I was NOT looking forward to this morning. Yesterday we had a huge brunch of biscuits and gravy with sausage, eggs and hashbrowns. I should have had smaller portions and maybe skipped the sausage and hashbrowns all together but I didn’t. I had like 3 servings of hashbrowns, 2 sausage patties and 2 biscuits @ 200 calories each with easily a half cup of gravy. Not to mention before I ate this I had an orange and some grapes. So, needless to say I was over on my calories by 1:00. Usually when I screw up this early in the day I just write that day off as a failure and keep eating but I didn’t yesterday which surprised me. I drank lost of water (6 bottles @ 16oz each) and kept busy as much as I could. I made dinner for the rest of my family (grilled chicken, potatoes and green beans) but while they ate I cleaned the kitchen and I was sure to only make enough for the two of them so I wouldn’t be tempted. Before bed I had a big glass of warm fat free milk to keep my metabolism running and to meet my protein goals for the day but that’s it. I expected to weigh in at about 225 this morning which I would have been okay with considering I went over 2000 calories yesterday but no… 222!!!! It must have been all the extra cardio from last week! Anyway, this puts me two weeks and two pounds ahead of my 2/4 goal of 224 so YAY!!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I’m having one of those days where I’m fighting with myself to do anything at work. I like my job I do just some days I want to do something or be somewhere where people speak to each other. Everyone, including myself, is really busy all the time and I know this and for the most part I enjoy the quiet but every once and awhile it makes me feel restless and sort of lonely. I spend a lot of time on SP these days and I think it’s because I’m desperate for some kind of human contact even if it is with people I’ve never met. Again, for the most part, I’d say 90% of the time I actually enjoy the quietness of everything but when I break it down it’s like this:
1. I wake up in the morning while everyone is asleep and get ready for work. It’s quiet.
2.I wake up my son to get him ready for school reminding him to stay quiet because my husband works nights and is asleep. Another 15 minutes or so of quiet.
3. We drive the 5 minutes to Ryley’s (my son) school. I try and get him to talk during this time but he’s still half asleep so sometimes it doesn’t work. Partial quiet.
4. I get to work between 7:45-8:00. My boss tells me good morning and then there is no actual speaking in my office after this until 5:00 when we tell each other good night. Any necessary correspondence is done via email. 9 hours of quiet.
5. I pick up my son from his after school program around 5:30 and he’s much more awake now and talks to me the 5 minutes home about video games and pokemon cards. The first solid conversation of my day.
6. We get home and do home work, work out, make dinner, clean up and read until Ryley’s 8:30 bedtime. We talk about things like how to make a cursive k, why we don’t have cookies for dinner and why wiping boogers on the wall instead of using a tissue is unacceptable. This is 3 hours of talking in between activities which I estimate adds up to about 1 and a half hours of actual speaking.
So to summarize, there are 1 hour and roughly 41 minutes a day in which my surroundings are not silent and free completely of the sound of human voices. Not to mention that the vast majority of my communication is with a seven year old. See how it’s easy to get lonely and bored? =)
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