whew--what a week, eh? I feel so...derailed.
The good news is, I've got 2 more weigh-ins before August is over, and only 3 lbs to lose in order to make it below 190 before September. And I am going to by-God do it. This is getting ridiculous. I thought I was going to be below 180 by now, at least.
Speaking of ridiculous...I had chicken flautas for lunch today. 24 points in the flautas, according to fitday and my handy-dandy points calculation spreadsheet. 77 grams of fat! Holy crap! I guess I should know better than to order anything with the word "deep-fried" in the description, but damn. Putting those on the list of things I will never order again as long as I live (even though they were quite yummy). So yeah, at the beginning of a week when I was going to really "get serious" and "turn over a new leaf" and "stop stuffing my face every second of every day", and here I am, not even 8 waking hours into the week, at 35 points for the day. Ugh.
So, in an attempt to redeem myself from what I am now calling the "Great Flauta Folly of 2003", I'm going to get on the bike tonight if it doesn't rain (they're saying thunderstorms tonight, but right now it's low 80s and sunny). With the 40-mile ride coming up at the end of September, I need to be training anyway. I'm planning on going for 10 miles, but I may decide to go as far as I can in an hour and not worry about distance so much. Once I get Noah fed, the kitchen cleaned, and the bike tuned up, that's just about all the time I'll have before it gets too dark to ride without a headlight.
Rob's supposed to be coming over tonight and bringing some Pilates dvds with him. I'm kind of fired up about trying that. I've always wished I was more flexible, and I think that my walking speed would also improve if I could manage a longer stride. I've also been reading that these Pilates workouts are pretty intensive in their own right, so I'm looking forward to making them part of my routine. If it does rain, I'll start tonight.
I took the day off from work yesterday for Noah's meet-the-teacher thing and an appointment with a plumber. The plumber cost 3x more than I had budgeted, but at least my toilet isn't running all the time. (I'll make up that difference in my water bills for the coming months, I'm sure.) It was nice to stay home all day...with Kat around to help clean (okay, that should say "to clean", since I don't do much housekeeping at all), there's more time to just sit and be quiet, rather than get stressed out about the laundry that isn't done, or the dishes in the sink, or the blanket of cat hair covering the floor in the breakfast nook.
I had planned on spending the afternoon hanging out with Noah, but he wanted to go to daycare instead. I think he gets bored being an only child surrounded by adults all the time. None of his friends were home yesterday, so daycare just sounded like more fun than hanging out with Mom, I guess. And I was even going to talk him into seeing Freaky Friday with me. :) Oh, well...vegging on the couch was nice, too. Kat had a book club meeting last night, so I didn't feel all self-conscious putting in the WATP dvd and letting Leslie Sansone kick my ass for 4 miles. It was a good day, all things considered.
Other than that, not really much else to report. TOM's here, right on schedule despite my lax pill-taking practices. I'm hoping for a swoosh-y loss on the scale next week, but you just never can tell with this body. There's going to be a little bit of adjustment chaos around the house now that Noah's in school again and Kat's got a day job. Might be a little rocky, but hopefully won't spiral completely out of control.
Posted by Joy at August 13, 2003 02:21 PM