orange juice the pub killer?
May 15th, 2009
My sister’s fiance’s little sister and her boyfriend came over last night, so we went out to the local pub quiz. Which meant: PUB DINNER! Oh dear. I ended up ordering the veggie burger, no fries, with peas. I only ate half of the burger bun and the whole burger pattie (which was delish). Surprisingly enough my meal came to about 315cal. Awesome.
UNFORTUNATELY - I was being all responsible and mature, and only had one glass of wine. So while others were ordering bitter shandies and kronenberg, I drank orange juice. Which IS very sensible, but had one of my two orange juices been water I would NOT have gone over my calorie limit by 80cal!!!!! RRRRRGH.
Oh well, at least I did well on the food front. I made an awesome hamcheesespinach omlette for lunch yesters, and I think I’ll have the same again today. woot.
The cleaner is coming this morning, so I’ll get out of her way and go for a walk while she’s here. I’ve really got to step up the excersise situation. I have been putting it off by waiting ’til I get a job to do anything that costs money. But I don’t have to spend money to excersise. I have about sixteen trillion excuses- even though I do love to excersise.
Laters!
off the flippin’ wagon
May 13th, 2009
On both Friday and Saturday nights I went out with friends and drank probably the equivalent of a bottle of wine and a bit each night.
I always knew that I ate a bit more than usual when I was hungover, but it has extended well into this week this time. It must be because I haven’t had a big night in ages. Or possibly I never noticed before because I ate so badly anyway.
I, like many many others out there, suffer severely from a post night-out nightmare of hungover depression, which my friends and I call the hung sads. So that lovely, positive mindset I had fashioned for myself over the two weeks previous has been ripped to shreds. SHREDS.
Which is why, I think, I should not drink anymore. I don’t think I will become a total tetotaller - just someone who thinks one drink is enough - I love wine and should drink it for the taste, not the after effects of imbibing a bottle. Which means no more cider (bleargh), beer - never a problem for me, I think it tastes like, well… beer. Maybe the occasional vodka lime and soda (which I love only if it is real lime, not cordial).
But for now I’ve got to get back to work on building up my self esteem again - I’m job hunting for goodness sake, nobody wants to hire a meek little fattie. Oops, slightly negative there.
I’m going to see Coraline in 3D tonight with my sister - I haven’t seen a 3D film since I went to a theme park about eight years ago, and all it did was give me a headache. But I’ve heard that it’s advanced since then, and the glasses look remarkably like ray bans. Awesome.
Ok:
No more being down on myself.
I will forget that greasy sausage sandwich I had for lunch.
I will acknowledge that, while chocolate and I can co-exist in harmony, we should not meet too often, lest I be seized by a fit of ‘must eat chocolates’ and devour all existing chocolate forever. Because that will happen if I’m not careful.
I will tape my drinkbottle to my arm so that I do not forget to drink enough water.