Hanging in there…
I haven’t been posting much lately cause it seems like every free second gets taken up by work…except in those moments when I realize that hubby & I are descending into sloppy madness & I take a break to clean.
Yesterday was a “break to clean” day for the most part. I finally opened up 3 of hubby’s boxes that have been sitting in the living room since we bought the place. But all that stuff is now out of the boxes, washed & put away. Yay! Got the spare bedroom tidied up too: shifted some boxes around so they’re in the basement or closet & not in the middle of the floor & even made room in the closet for hubby’s giant UP-like winter coats that have also been occupying a corner of the living room.
I swear, I don’t usually live like this. I mean, I get as cluttered as the next person, but this is crazy. My next task was going to be getting the wireless installed on my office computer (the internet service we have has only the one plug, so the rest of the computers–even my basement desktop–have to be wireless). This isn’t something I’ve done before, but I figured I could pull it off. Only I didn’t get the chance. I asked hubby where he kept the spare wireless card (or whatever it’s called), and that’s it, he did it for me…& used the opportunity to play around with my computer for 3 hours rather than work on the diss. I feel bad cause I know I could’ve & would’ve done it faster on my own…when you’re writing the diss, any distraction is a welcome & potentially lengthy one.
Oh, this is a lot of talk not about diet & exercise. Both have been okay, but not great. I really count on bootcamp to give me my exercise for the week & it’s almost the only thing keeping me grounded right now…I really look forward to her beating the crap out of us twice a week…although last week we did a lot of exercises that involved beating & kicking the crap out of stuff, so that was relaxing. The only other exercise I get is walks & occasionally pushups/situps. Seems like no matter how often I resolve to do better, doing worse gets the better of me.
Food has been mostly home cooked stuff…chicken, ham, beef chuck, burger, whatever’s on sale. Lots of veggies & salads, but I’m not counting calories this week, apparently. I guess I’m burning calories with all the treading water I’m doing at work…barely keeping my head above it. But probably the stress is just adding inches to my waist.
No gains…I’m holding steady at 170. I really hate that, but I’m also really determined not to hate it so much that I sabotage myself & get the scale moving in the wrong direction. So still with the bootcamp & still with the weekly fast & still with the no stupid over-indulging & still with the small plates & single helpings. If I can hold steady until this crazy time has passed, I’ll feel like I accomplished something.
Damn, I’m boring. Time to see what you exciting chicks are up to.
Mmm. I love sundried tomatoes and I love the whole slow cooking concept in the winter. I have been looking through some recipes for crock pot stuff that I bookmarked a long time ago. I will have to ditch some of them since I avoid the whole “cream of something soup” thing these days. But I found some that I want to try. Anyway, I wish we had a trader joes.
One thing I do to try to talk myself out of eating two servings of something is to focus on variety. Like today I was thinking about how it will be nice when I can increase my calories and have a serving and a half of cereal or even two servings. But I know that if I do that, my diet is not as balanced as far as nutrients go. In this case, way too high on the refined carbs in the cereal. So I try to force myself to get all the food I need through one serving of different things. I helps a little. Although, I still see my son eating jethro bowls of cereal and really WISH I could do that.
HEY!! {{waving from underneath a lot of boxes}} Since you are on an unpacking kick, could you come down and unpack my house?