Marathon Mom

Weight: too much pork and apple stew last night!

Sorry, everyone. I’ve been a bit MIA around here. I have a lot going on at home and I’ve not been able to spend any time blog reading. As it is, I’m barely eeking out a few minutes to post here. I’m hoping after this week things will calm back down a bit and I can get back on track.

Today is my oldest son’s 17th birthday. Finally, he can go to R rated movies without me. He’s jazzed! We’re going out to dinner with my parents tonite to celebrate. We rarely eat out because of a) expense and b) Sean’s food allergies. However, my ‘rents are paying and we’re eating at Mary’s Pizza Shack who offer a gluten free pizza crust! Yay!! They do not have casein free cheese, but you have two choices there. Either bring in your own cheese and they’ll make the pizza with that (I’ve done that in the past, it’s worked great!) or just get the pizza without cheese (which is the option we’re choosing tonite.)

My plan for today is to eat but keep things on the extra light side and just have one slice of pizza tonite. We’ll see how that goes. Oh, and there will be cake! And I will probably have one small piece. Cause TOM is here with a vengence right now and I LOVE CAKE!! If I don’t have a piece at dinner with everyone else, I’ll just obsess about it and end up having a super huge piece when we get home, eating two to three times as much as I would have if I just had a regular piece with everyone else. I know me. I don’t need to set myself up for a binge. And so I won’t. It’s ok to eat normally, to have a small piece of what you want. It’s the denial, the “bad or forbidden” foods list that jacks everything up. That’s not to say that I have foods I won’t eat because they are trigger foods for me. Like chips. And muffins. But I can have a small piece of cake and be satisfied. Unless I’ve denied myself the cake and then cave later on. Oh BOY, is that the set up for an out of control food orgy! No more. I know myself too well.

UGH - it’s just pouring rain out and I do not want to get up and moving today. I want to stay snuggled up in bed and sleep all day. Why must my life suck so? Ok, it doesn’t really suck. I’m just tired and lazy today.

Have a great October 13th everyone!!

Today is Sean’s 8th birthday. So I planned a day chock full of 8 year old fun. Well, as much 8 year old fun as I could handle (and afford!) We started with a matinee showing of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (in 3D!!!) This was possibly the most fun movie I have ever seen! We all loved it, it was hilarious. Even the credits are entertaining. They practically had to drag us out of the theater (we were the last ones to leave!) Go see it if you can, especially in 3D. Definitely worth the $$$. This is the first zero bathroom trips movie we’ve had all summer! The number of trips to the bathroom is in direct proportion to how bored the younger ones are. They didn’t even flinch - but they practically ran to the bathrooms afterwards! Ha, they were so enthralled with the movie they didn’t dare go! That speaks volumes!!!

Next we went to Chuck E. Cheese. Ah, apparently so did everyone else! I’ve never seen it so crowded. We had to wait 10 minutes for enough people to leave so we could go in!! I was seriously reconsidering, but Sean and Skye were literally jumping up and down with anticipation, so leaving was totally not an option! Fortunately, once we were in, it wasn’t so bad. The noise level was no worse than our house on any given weekend afternoon, and the kids didn’t seem to mind one bit. So, I didn’t either.

They got to play lots of games, eat some cheap-ass pizza, and buy crap with tickets they won. A successful trip! Then we went to my mom’s store to have cake and open presents. Sounds weird, but so’s our family! And it works for us. A good time was had by all!

I ate today:

a handful of popcorn
a few sour patch straws
a few bars of a Kit Kat bar
a very small slice of pepperoni pizza
about 10 shoe string french fries with ketchup
three bites of chocolate cake
a Lean Cuisine bbq chicken pizza

I got to have a taste of what I wanted without feeling like I pigged out. Not an optimal diet, for sure. But a couple of months ago, that would have read like this:

half a large bag of popcorn
large box Junior Mints
package of Red Vines
several large slices of pepperoni pizza
large order of fries
large slice of chocolate cake with tons of buttercream frosting, possibly a second
two to three slices of pepperoni & sausage pizza at home
one or two cupcakes

Yes, I’ve come a long way, baby!!

Note: I am SO FREAKIN’ SORE! It’s odd parts, like my hams and the backs of my calves. Oh, and my hip-flexers. OUCH. And my big toe-nails. They are tender. Like everytime I rolled over in bed and a big toenail touched the bed, it WOKE ME UP! I am hoping this will pass. And I’m now worrying about my half-mary. My toenails didn’t hurt AT ALL yesterday. In fact, I even mentioned to my sister how my feet were the one part of my body that didn’t give me a hint of pain or discomfort yesterday during the run. I hope they stop hurting soon!!!

Thanks Katy for the water-intake check. I do drink tons… but it’s mostly Coke Zero. I do try to drink a few mugs of tea a day, but I miss some days. It’s probably caffeine overload. My neurologist would probably shoot me if he knew how much caffeine I consume - not good for someone with a history of migraines! I need to get back to drinking more water. Will do!!

AM. weigh in: 146.6 (almost back down to 144.4!! So close so close!!)

Today I’m treating myself to an early birthday present - I booked an afternoon at one of our local salons for a facial, eyebrow waxing, make-up “lesson” and hair cut/color/spruce up. It’s going to be expensive and I’m worth every damn penny I’m spending!! I never do stuff like this for myself and with my 39th birthday just around the corner, well, it’s about time! My daughter’s 18th birthday is next week, and I have to say that is really playing into this too. I don’t want to look old enough to have an 18 year old! I guess you could say I’m freaking out just a bit. Oh, and I don’t know if I’ll hit 139 by Saturday, but I’m going skydiving anyway! I’ll be damn close and that’s good enough for me!