Sistah Pat

DS woke me up at 6:30 to say that the electric flickered and all the clocks went out.  He didn’t know if DH or I had to get up early for anything and didn’t want us to oversleep.  There’s nothing on the agenda that requires an alarm this morning but I couldn’t get back to sleep.  Anyway, it’s nice and quiet and that doesn’t happen often around here so I’m just going to sit here and drink my coffee and enjoy the solitude.

We had a lot of rain last night but the front page of the paper shows that we were lucky.  It looks like Iowa’s about to float away.  I hope all you little chicklets are on high ground this morning.  We would have been driving through Iowa and spending the night in Des Moine in six days if I hadn’t reversed the vacation route.

My dear friend, Mr. Scale, is showing me 176 this morning.  Whooo Hoooo!  Of course, I know how fickle he is.  He’ll probably throw me a curve tomorrow but it feels good this morning.  That’s only one pound from my goal of 175 by June 15 and I can live with that.  At some point, I’m going to have to reassess my goals.  I thought 5 pounds every two weeks was pretty reasonable but I can’t do anymore than what I’m doing and I’m not getting there.  Actually, I have gotten there every two weeks except the one on June 1st.  I missed it by a little bit and that’s what’s thrown me off on June 15.  Of course, today is only the 14th but it’s not likely to change by tomorrow.  Maybe I don’t need to reassess the goals.  I’ve lost 19 pounds since April 15th and that’s only one pound off the goal.

I didn’t eat enough calories yesterday.  At the end of the day, I’d only eaten 515 calories or something like that.  Didn’t do it on purpose and I’m not going to worry about it.  It’s actually kind of nice to be at a point where I forgot to eat.  Haven’t had that problem for a long time.

10:30 - Treadmill is done!  It feels so good to have that behind me and know that I don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the day.  Did the “3 more miles” workout although I guess I should really call it the “5 more minutes” workout because I never look beyond the next 5 minutes.  The first 30 minutes is pretty much a warm-up to get the ankle to loosen up, the next 35 minutes are killers, and the last 30 minutes are cooling down.  It’s nice to start out the day 610 calories ahead!

1:00 - I’m going crazy trying to find the leak in the airbed!  After I set it up the other day I realized, a couple of hours later, that it was going down.  I’m not happy about it because it was “borrowed” without permission by DIL and she loaned it to someone else.  Now I’ve got it back and it has a leak somewhere.  I’ve gone over and over it and can’t find it!  DH went to pick up the car dolly so we can tow the car behind the RV on vacation.  I’m going to get him to help me when he gets back.  Maybe if one of us lies on it and the other goes over it looking for the leak, we’ll find it.

8:30 - I’m bingeing.  STOP IT NOW!  I ate a package of peanut butter rice cakes.  Then I ate dinner.  Then I ate another package of rice cakes and had some Crystal Light.  I just realized I just ate another package of rice cakes.  I’m bored…Snacking is not going to help.  Ughhh…Let me add up the calories and see what the damages are…

1,185 calories.  Okay, I’m safe but nothing else to eat tonight.  I think I started eating because I’m frustrated.  Sprayed soapy water on the air bed and found a leak.  Patched it and noticed it was still not holding air.  Found another leak.  Patched it and it’s still leaking.  Now I have to keep looking for yet another hole somewhere.

I was looking through some diet recipes for dinner and came across several using chicken.  I tried one that used chicken breast, mushrooms, cheddar cheese (I used fat-free) skim milk and dried stuffing mix on top.  As it was baking, I looked over the recipe and saw that it has 500 calories per serving.  Gasp!  I don’t know how I missed that except that I looked at a lot of recipes before deciding to try this one and somehow missed checking the calorie count.  Can’t believe I did that.  Anyway, it turned out pretty soupy and blah and I don’t like wasting 500 calories on blah, soupy chicken.  Guess I’ll call it a day and go look for some more leaks in the airbed before I give up. 

Later, Chicklets!