Sistah Pat

Looks like it’s going to be a long day.  David said he has a 12 hour catering job today and will need me to watch the boys from 12 to 12.  He got a new $80 Chef Jacket to wear to today’s function and it’s in the backseat of the car Stacy took.  Still in the package.  He didn’t have a chance to get it before she took off.  There’s also a bunch of DHs tools in the trunk that David had borrowed.

Weighed in at 181.5 this morning.  I had a bad evening yesterday.  Don’t know why but I found myself mindlessly watching TV and eating.  I caught it in time to avoid an all out binge but I’m not sure what triggered it.  It was after David picked up the boys, around 8:00 and I ate another bowl of tuna pasta salad with two garlic breadsticks.  Not a big deal, 200 calories for the pasta salad and 40 for the breadsticks. Then I had another small piece of the cherry clafoutis, another 100 calories.  A few minutes later, I had another bowl of pasta salad and a couple more breadsticks.  After that, another bowl of cherry clafoutis.  This is when I realized that I wasn’t even tasting it anymore and I was eating even though I was stuffed.  I haven’t done that for at least 6 weeks.  I wonder what triggered it.  I’ve been very stingy with carbs and I’m wondering if I somehow triggered it by consuming so many carbs at dinner.  I don’t know.  Anyway, I’m lucky to have caught it in time to have only loaded up an extra 600 or 700 calories.  It could have been much worse.

Have to meet Sistah Pam at the gym in about 45 minutes.  Gotta run.

10 minutes later…Pam called and cancelled so I guess it’s just me and the treadmill.  I went ahead and calculated the calories for my  bingeing last night and it came out to be around 900 calories!  Maybe if I put in 1 1/2 hours on the treadmill, I’ll be more careful next time I find myself bingeing.

11:30
95 minutes, 4.6 miles, 595 calories.  All the way up the incline in increments of 5 minutes at 2.9 mph and all the way back down.  Geez!  Remind me of this the next time I binge!

3:45 - Trying to think of something to fix for dinner.  I just realized today is June 1st.  Not tomorrow, today!  So, I didn’t meet my goal. :-(  Oh well, I’m not going to get upset about it.  I’ll blame the broken toe and try to make it up before the 15th.  I was going to fix lemon garlic chicken breasts and brown rice with almonds but DH says he wants spanish rice tonight.  Not sure where to go with that.

Finally gave up on fighting the kids.  Let them spend the day in the pool.  It wasn’t as cold as I thought it was.  74 degrees.  That’s still too cold to me but they’d turn blue before they’d admit it.  I raised the blinds in the family room and I can look right down there and watch them in the pool.  That’s good because it got them out of the way enough to let me clean on the kitchen some more.

8:00 p.m. - I’m out in the RV.  These kids are doing me in!  There’s a reason you have to be young to have kids.  Jake and Scout nagged me to death to go in the RV and watch TV and “sleep”.  I was trying to work on vacation plans but finally gave up and brought my laptop out here.  They weren’t in the RV a full minute before they spotted the rack-it-back game and took off for the back yard to play it.  Maybe I’ll stay out here.  It’s kind of warm and stuffy but it’s nice and quiet.

I’m supposed to drink 64 ounces of Gatorade this evening to prep for the colonoscopy and a day of fasting tomorrow.  I went to get it (I DON”T LIKE GATORADE) at the grocery and found that it has 310 calories in 12 ounces!  Are they crazy???? The doctor’s orders said you could get the G2 if you’re diabetic.  I’m not diabetic but there’s NO WAY I’m blowing 1,700 calories to choke down a bunch of Gatorade.  I got the G2.  It has 70 calories for 20 ounces.  I’m not even happy about that.  If I drink 60 ounces, that’s the same as a frozen dinner and I’d much rather have some food than a bunch of icky sweet soft drink stuff.  I’m not doing very well.  I’ve been working on it for almost two hours and have only drank about 14 ounces.  I hate sweet soft drinks.  I usually drink unsweetened tea, coffee, or water.

hmmmm…am I getting a little cranky or what?