Starting weight (7/15/08):    279.8    (1/8/08):    285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:  1128 / 28.3
Yesterday’s exercise:    30 min. elliptical / 10 min. ex. bike
Weight Yesterday:  250.2    Today:  249.8
Change today::  -0.4 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  30.0 lbs.  /  35.4 lbs. 

A guy once said to me:

“Wimmen cain’t be trusted - I don’t trust nuthin’ that can bleed fer five days and don’t die.”

Obviously he wasn’t exactly a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon, but he did make a good point.   It’s downright unnatural, this whole Tom thing.  Okay, alright, I know it’s natural, in fact it’s the epitome of natural, but it is also sometimes really creepy and unnerving.  Honestly, I’m just tired of it.  I am ready - more than ready - to be done with it.  Forever.  I’M FORTY SEVEN!  CAN I BE DONE WITH IT NOW PLEASE?!  *Sigh*

I got up this morning at 7 and went down to the hotel gym again!  I set the elliptical for a 30-minute-fat-burning workout and it took me seriously.  The machine wiped the floor with me!  After just three minutes I was ready to stop but I made myself work through it.  Twenty-seven sweaty minutes later I gratefully ground to a halt.  I felt good though - I was glad that I finished.

I’m back home again.  I haven’t done much but watch movies and eat.  I made ham steaks for dinner tonight.  Hubby had his with mashed potatoes and corn while I ate mine with green beans.  I had one little mound of mashed potatoes (just an eighth of a cup), just because I haven’t tasted them in like five months.  They were good but about an hour later I was craving sweets and I wondered if maybe the potatoes were the cause.  I actually gave into my craving and had a piece of milk chocolate (and some smoked almonds).  Now I have a small piece of Dove chocolate every day - but this was over and above that.  I went over my 30g carb limit (by only 8g) and over my 1400 calorie limit (by 90 calories).  It’s my goal to stay below at least one of those two limits each day, so I feel really guilty even though my indulgence was on a really small scale.

I did do one thing this afternoon that I’m really excited about… I rented a cabin in the North Carolina mountains for the week between Christmas and New Years!  I’ve been searching and searching the internet for just the right cabin and I finally found one that will be perfect for us!  It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms on three levels.  It even has a game room with foosball and electronic darts and satellite TV!  Sounds expensive, eh?!  Well, incredibly, this cabin costs far less for a week than it would to stay in a hotel or even motel! 

I’m so jazzed!!!  The kids are hoping that there will be snow on the ground!  My oldest son still has to see if he can get off from work that week - I sure hope so!  He’s 20 years old (sniff)… this may very well be our last family vacation together.

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