Sistah Pat

Today’s goals are pretty simple.  Continue to do some laundry and get the RV clean.  I really enjoy cleaning the RV.  It’s so simple.  Itty bitty house.  There’s nothing in the bedroom but the bed and some empty dresser drawers and closets.  Make the bed and the room’s clean!  The bathroom hasn’t been used since we took the RV to Florida over Thanksgiving so it’s already been cleaned.  There’s nothing to do in the kitchen either.  In fact, I like cleaning the RV because it can go from being a mess when everyone wakes up in the mornings to being totally clean in just a matter of minutes.  You get up, make the beds, do the breakfast dishes, run the vacuum and the entire place is sparkling!  

I finally lost a pound this morning.  Weighed in at 178.5.  I’m trying to remember what my goal was supposed to be.  I think I wanted to be at 175 by June 15 which isn’t likely.  Boy, this is slow going!  I was thinking I might try to boost the exercise up to twice today but I don’t know if I’ll have time.  I’m meeting a bunch of girlie friends for dinner and a play at 5:30.  I forgot which restaurant we’re going to but I hope they have something light.  Guess I’d better save as many calories as possible for dinner.  Think I’ll take a break here and look through my email to see if I can find out where we’re going and see if they have a menu on line.

8:50 - My back hurts.  My ankle hurts.  I guess it’s because of all the digging I did planting the rest of the flowers yesterday.  I keep sitting here hoping it will ease off but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.  I really DON’T want to do the treadmill this morning but I’ve been procrastinating for about an hour and it isn’t going to go away.  Guess I’d better get it done.

11:15 - Done!  In deference to my ankle, I kept the speed down to 2.9.  In deference to my back, I didn’t take the incline any higher than 7%.  In deference to my stubborn nature, I went for 2 hours.  Went 5.7 miles but only burned 612 calories because I didn’t use the steeper inclines.

Found out we’re going to Bistro 301 for dinner.  I looked at the menu and it looks delicious but it doesn’t look very low cal.  The dinner menu is at http://www.bistro301.com/  Anyone got any suggestions?  I love Hot Browns and French Dip sandwiches but, obviously, those are out of the ballpark calorie wise.  They have several salads but they all seem to have croutons, or bacon, or ranch type dressings.  Hmmm…decisions, decisions.