Sistah Pat

Tomorrow I’m meeting with Pam and we’re going to begin serious training.  I’m doing well so far but I know it’s just orientation.  I got up this morning and went to K-Mart to look for a new bicycle seat that won’t bust my balls.  For me, this is a good thing.  There have actually been Saturdays (entire weekends, if I’m being honest) where I haven’t even gotten out of my pajamas.  Just spent the entire weekend watching TV, playing solitaire, working on the computer, or just hanging around the house.  I decided that I would get up, get dressed and keep myself busy all day.

 My car has needed a serious scrubbing for almost a year.  You can run it through a car wash for a while but the time comes when you just have to break down and do some heavy duty cleaning.  I picked up some stuff to remove the haze on my headlights and general cleaning stuff.

Polishing the headlights and cleaning the car took four hours but it looks great.  All shiny and clean, vacuumed and scrubbed (including the leather and carpet).  Now I have an hour to kill before we meet friends for dinner.  Guess I can use that time to scrub and polish myself.

Rick and Pam invited us over but she called and asked if we just wanted to meet somewhere for dinner because she didn’t feel like cooking.  Ordinarily, I would have said, “Why don’t we just make it another night?” and spent the evening watching TV and eating.  I suspect Pam just didn’t feel like having company because this is not like her and it would have been easy to cancel. I know it seems trivial but I feel good about agreeing to meet them for dinner.  She mentioned Applebees about three times so I guess that’s where we’ll go.

What’s my plan for Applebees?  I went to their website and looked at the menu.  It seems that they work with weight watchers and have ten items that are weight watchers friendly.  An onion soup au gratin appetizer clocks in at 150 calories and I’ll probably have the grilled chili lime chicken salad at another 150 calories.  They also have a tortilla chicken melt appetizer but it’s 480 calories.  I guess I could go that route if I want to because I haven’t eaten anything all day so I certainly have some calories to play with.

About not eating all day…this wasn’t a concious decison but I’ve never been much of a breakfast person and I worked through lunch.  The last few times I’ve tried to diet, I’ve tried to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and healthy snacks throughout the day.  You know what?  I’m not going to do that anymore.   I never made myself eat just because it was time to eat before I got fat so why should I do it now?