I'm back on track, totally, today.

Yesterday, my food was back on track but I didn't quite get a proper workout in. I'm quite pleased though that I did get 2.5 miles on the bike in. By the time we got home, I wasn't sure that I'd actually get anything done.

This morning, I got up a little earlier than I normally do so I could get in a mile with WATP. It had been almost a week since I did it last (the first time I did it) and I really worked at it. I was a little more coordinated than the first time too. When I started, I heard myself whining in my head, my back hurts, my hips are sore, I should quit now, this can't be good for me...etc. I didn't stop though, my back stopped hurting, my hips loosed up, I got through the whole thing and felt really good by the end of it. After the cool down, I hopped on the bike and did almost 4 and a quarter miles. I've decided that I'm going to shoot for doing the 1 mile WATP and 20 minutes of the bike on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays and do shoot for 30 minutes on the bike the other days. I'm feeling really good right now and want to keep pushing myself. I sweated a lot this morning too which is a good thing for me to be doing.

So that will be my fitness goal for the next couple of weeks. I'm really working hard at keeping the fat intake low and the water intake high. It's also PMS week so I may be fighting chocolate cravings as well. I'm going to try to do my very best because, really, that's all I can do.

I'm so glad that Blogger is out of it's funk today. I didn't write much all weekend because several times, when I tried to update, Blogger was down. I know that they've been working on upgrades and stuff lately but would it kill them to send us an email about outages? Sheesh.

I'm feeling much better today than yesterday. I just felt like I'd been hit with a truck yesterday, not good at all. Because I'd napped in the afternoon, I got to bed much later than I normally would last night. I kind of slept in this morning and didn't work out before heading to the office. My plan is to do it tonight when I get home. I've been taping Dr Phil so I figure I'll pop the tape on and just do it then. By tomorrow, I should be totally back on track.

I'm feeling a bit better than I did a few hours ago. I'm completely exhausted though so I won't be working out today. The upside of feeling this lousy is that I didn't each much today, no dinner at all actually. I'm sure I'll feel a lot better in the morning and will be back into my routine. I sure hope so anyway.

ugh

I woke up this morning, feeling great. We had a nice breakfast of scrambled egg substitute with onions, peppers, garlic and little itty bitty shrimps. I also had a toasted, dry bagel. It was really yummy. A couple of hours later, I had another gas attack. It was as bad as the first one I had but this time, I knew what it was and that it would, eventually, end. I must have drank about 5 cans of diet ginger ale before it passed. I felt really wonky once it had passed and ended up grabbing a nab this afternoon. I think it's because of the garlic and onions this morning. Ordinarily they don't bother me but it might have been a bit too much for me to eat so early (we ate before 8 a.m.)

I still haven't worked out and am not sure that I will. I'm going to try but I'm not sure how far into I'll get into it. I still feel a little fragile at the moment.

break day

Today was an official break day for me. I didn't workout at all. I spent the early morning cleaning up the house and getting things ready for company. Two of my best girlfriends were coming over for lunch and some serious patio/cocktail time. It's been ages since we've done that and I couldn't remember the last time I had anything alcoholic to drink. We had a great time. I had made a huge veggie platter with some low-fat dip and got a small pumpernickel loaf and spinach dip for us to nibble on. None of us wanted to have a big lunch so I thought that this was a good idea. We just snacked on stuff through the afternoon and made a few pitchers of blender drinks. The weather was overcast but warm and the rain they kept calling for never happened.

When my hunny got home from work, he hung out with us for a bit and then drove them home. As this was a day off, we decided to grab a pizza for dinner. I just figured out my calories for the day and despite the pizza, booze & bread, I didn't do too bad at all. Probably because until we had the pizza, everything else was pretty low calorie (alcohol aside). I'll be totally back on track tomorrow. The day off on Saturday thing is working for me though. I've done it the past couple of weeks and while I never go totally nutso, I do get to treat myself. I find that even on my free days now, I usually stay pretty close to what I would otherwise. I just can't eat as much as I used to and I don't crave much of the crap anymore. It's nice.

Oh, by the way, I measured up this morning and I'm happy to report that I lost .5" from my chest, hips and calf this week. That's a total of 11.5" from my chest and 11" from my hips since January. I was also down 2 pounds on the scale and I'm really thrilled about that.

I made it through the pizza

I survived the pizza party at lunch. It really helped that the pizza arrived late and didn't look that good. The other thing that helped was the fact that my lunch smelled way better (to me anyway) than the pizza.

I'm pretty pleased with myself as far as my eating goes this week. I've also had a great exercise and water-intake week so I'm hoping that I'll see some results tomorrow when I "measure up." I'm feeling very positive.

Tomorrow will most likely be a break day from exercise (although I do have some serious housework to do in the morning so I may "workout" after all). After many postponements, I'm having 2 of my girlfriends over tomorrow for the afternoon. We're going to sit on my patio and have some drinks and munchies. I think I'm going to do a big veggie platter and I know that we're going to partake of some blender drinks. It's okay though, Saturday has become my break day (not that I go totally overboard but I do allow myself some "treats" on Saturdays. It should be fun and I'm really looking forward to it!

second hurdle passed

Today was our professional development day at work. I wrote about this earlier, about the barbecue luncheon and the poor options I would be offered. I had my breakfast and coffee at home so when I got to registration I wasn't tempted by the coffee, danish, muffins, etc. which were on display. I grabbed a bottle of water and went to the opening session. I was pretty happy with myself. I didn't even bother with the fruit because "hello!" it's extra sugar/carbs that I just didn't need. When lunch rolled around I discovered that the "vegetarian option" I'd ordered was a dried out veggie burger. I ate it, sans bun, with some mustard and onion on it and piled up a bunch of raw veggies and grabbed a diet coke. It was not really my idea of a good meal but at least it got me through the day.

In the afternoon we had "musical round tables" where we went to round table discussions given by our colleagues. The idea behind them is that we can get up to speed on what other folks are doing in their units. One of my co-workers manages a program which sells "care packages" to parents (they are then delivered to their student, during exams, when the student has a cold, birthdays, etc.). I noticed that she was giving away care packs to folks who went to her session so I grabbed an empty seat when one opened up. It turned out that this particular kit contained 2 bags of chips, oatmeal cookies, a freezie, a coke and some candy. Not what I was hoping for exactly. I'd hoped that it might have some toiletries or office gadgets. So I carried this box of calories and fat around with me all afternoon. I overheard the director of our IT department teasing two of his staff members that they'd have to share their kits with him because he didn't get into that session. After the final session, I found him and gave him my kit, explaining that I couldn't really eat any of the stuff in it and that if he would enjoy it, he should have it. He was really pleased and I was happy to not have to bring it into the house.

In a nutshell, I survived the day and only have one more hurdle to face, tomorrow's pizza lunch. I do have some really yummy stir-fry leftovers to take for my lunch so passing up pizza should be fairly easy. I'll keep you posted!