Sistah Pat

Two more days till school’s out!  HooRah!  Scales introduced me to 183 this morning, another BIG Hoo Rah!  I need to be really diligent today though.  I could feel old habits creeping up on me yesterday.  Gotta keep dodging the doughnuts, cookies and chips today.

6:15
I’m totally exhausted!  Work was non-stop.  After work, I had a meeting from 2:30 to 4:30.  Got home at 5:00 and raced upstairs to do the treadmill thing and it was NOT a good workout.  It was hot, hot, HOT upstairs and I didn’t want to workout.  My legs felt like lead.  I told myself I would try to do 30 minutes and then I went for 45.  At 45, I started coming back down, slowed the speed to 2.9 and dropped the incline from 8, to 5, to 3, to 1.  I only made it to 8% today but I’m glad I was up for even that much!  Went for 60 minutes, 2.9 miles, burned 330 calories. 

On other topics, some people really get on my nerves.  At work today, an office worker told me to try the jam cake someone made.  I told her “No, not really hungry.” and she said, “Oh, you’ve got to have at least a little of it, it’s homemade and it’s delicious.”  I told her no again and said I was dieting.  Here’s the kicker…She actually took a spoon and scooped up a big spoonful of the caramel icing and stuck it in my face and said, “Taste this icing, she uses brown sugar and whipping cream.  You can at least have a bite of that.”  I wish I’d told her what she could do with her brown sugar and whipping cream but I didn’t.  I just said, “No, really, if I even taste it, I know I’ll have to eat a piece and I don’t want to do that.”  I walked away and left her standing there slurping on her spoonful of icing.

Sistah Pam was leading the meeting today and she had brought some snacks but they were pretty decent.  I was wowed by the chocolate meringue cookies she brought.  Sugar free, fat free, no artificial ingredients and delicious.  Only 110 calories for 16 cookies!  I ate at least 10 and loved every one!  Also had a few pretzels and a couple of chocolate covered raisins.  I’m going to give it 200 calories.  That should be safe.

I’ve got to get up off this chair and go fix dinner before I collapse.