Marathon Mom

A.M. weigh in: 163.2 (I know it’s mostly water weight, but I DON’T CARE!! I’m not turning my nose up at a 5 lb loss!!)

I woke up with a horrible stress headache. I’m sure it’s caffeine withdrawals from ONLY having two 20 oz bottles of Coke Zero yesterday. Yeah, pretty sad that is such a huge reduction in my daily caffeine intake that it triggers a headache. This week is going to hurt in more than one way!

Victory over at home snacking last night! I did end up eating some bing cherries. My stomache was literally growing about 9 pm, so a handful did just the trick. I need to get some more fruit in this house. And I didn’t even touch the dinner leftovers (which shockingly the kids HAD cleaned up literally every spec. And the BBQ chicken smell was mixed with bleach and cleaner by the time I got home last night. My kids are brilliant. I think I’ll keep ‘em.)

Time to run and get Sean ready for school. His bus will be here in 20 minutes. 7:10 am for summer school pick up is insane, but I guess I should be grateful cause it forces me to get moving in the morning!

UPDATE 7:31 AM

Sean’s bus showed up at 7:05. Really? Cause 7:10 wasn’t early enough?? Thank goodness I got him up and moving when I did. He was just slipping his jacket on when it pulled up. I don’t like running late or stressful mornings. It just sets up a bad vibe for the rest of the day.

After he was on the bus, I decided to do something I rarely do: fix myself breakfast. Scrambled eggs with cheese and turkey bacon. Mmmm… can I just say how much I adore turkey bacon. 35 calories a slice. It’s like the perfect food! I could eat a whole package of it… wait… that’s probably not good. So I limited myself to three slices. The tip for turkey bacon is to nuke it in the microwave. Since it’s so dry, frying in on the stove only works if you add oil and that REALLY defeats the whole purpose of turkey bacon, doesn’t it! I nuked the 3 slices for a minute 30 seconds and it was perfect. I like my bacon with a little bit of chew, not totally crispy. Ah, delish!! I could blog about just turkey bacon for hours… but I won’t. I’m going to get my 30 minutes on the elliptical right now, before I do anything else.

UPDATE 8:31 PM

Whew! 30 mins on the elliptical and a shower later and I still just want to crawl back under the covers and sleep for another few… days. I am SO tired! TIRED!! Mentally and physically worn out. However, I do feel better today than yesterday. And I guess really that’s all I can ask for. I told Cali I’d take her to see Pelham 123 tonite. My biggest challenge today will be no candy at the movies tonite. Yikes! We know that’s my biggest weakness!!

UPDATE 2:56 PM

Already had my 2 Coke Zeros for the day. Am currently chugging a liter of water with Crystal Light Raspberry Lemonade. It’s totally NOT Coke Zero.

I feel like I am STARVING! I have no idea why. I just ate lunch like an hour ago. 1 Gorton’s grilled salmon fish filet and a package of steamed sugar snap peas. And yet, I can feel my stomach like curling in on itself. Like I’m hungrier now than I was before I ate lunch. WFT? So I’m drinking the spruced up water and hoping that maybe it’s really thirst, not hunger… riiiiiight! I’m just used to snacking all the live long day. And that’s a hard habit to break (thank you, Chicago!)

Posted on June 16th, 2009 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering