Sistah Pat

Woke up a few minutes ago to Jake and Scout (cute, little grandkiddies) climbing up on my bed and giving me kisses and hugs.  Nice way to start the day.  Still, they quickly lost interest in me and were like little vultures with the gifts I brought them from our vacation.

After a whirlwind of activity, they left and I’m finally sitting down with a cup of coffee.  I’m usually an early riser but I tend to get up later and later as the summer wears on and it makes it rough when I go back to work.  David was really surprised that I was still asleep at 9:30 but, with the schedule I’ve been on for the last month, it’s like 7:30.

Okay, it’s time to get back to business.  For starters, I went out and got Mr. Scale from the RV and let him in the house.  He’s showing me 174 this morning and I believe him.  The last three or four days have not been a pig-out by any means but they haven’t been low-calorie either.  I have to go back in my blog and see where I was when I started vacation but I’m pretty sure I still managed to lose a little bit.  The most difficult thing will be getting back into the exercise routine.  It’s not going to be enough to just do cardio.  I’m starting to get saggy.  (Could it be that I’m just getting OLD?)  Starting today, I’m going back to writing down everything I eat and getting exercise.  Not sure what I’m going to do for today.  The pool is cold and I don’t want to get in it and the upstairs is hot.  Maybe I’ll do an aerobic tape downstairs.

…just went back in my blog to see what the vacation damages are.  Looks like I was around 176 or 177 when we left so I’m down a little but not as much as I was last week.  I’m still sitting here at the kitchen table contemplating getting my butt moving.  Gotta think about it a little longer…

11:30 - Okay, I got my shower.  That’s progress…My mind is beginning to function.  I’m thinking about dinner and dieting.  I don’t like beef which is good because I really shouldn’t eat it with my high cholesterol.  Just looked in the freezer and it’s pretty bare.  I’ve got to go to the store and get some chicken breasts and porkloin.  Just looked at all the ads in the Sunday paper and all the grocery stores have beef on sale.  Just my luck…

1:45 - I should get some kind of kudos for the grocery shopping!  Went to GFS and bought 3 huge bags of frozen chicken breasts (GFS is the only place I know that trims them as well as I would) and three huge cans of Allen’s green beans, hit the oriental market for summer roll wrappers and rice vermicelli and then headed to Meijer for porkloin which I found at a pretty decent price so I bought three loins.  Also picked up fresh green beans, strawberries, blueberries, soy milk, and cabbage.  Walked into Meijer and was assaulted with a double whammy of the smells of fried chicken and baked bread.  I think I probably gained a pound just from smelling it.  While I was waiting in line, I took a look at the magazine covers.  One of them had a headline of “Fabulous at Forty” and another had “Fit at Fifty”.  Didn’t see a single one that said, “Sexy at Sixty!”  I’m sooo doomed…  Another couple of years and I’ll be like all those little old ladies I was cursing today who were driving down the roads doing 25 mph.  Forgot that Tuesday is Senior Day in all the stores around here.

7:30 _ Ugghh!  I ate too much.  Dinner was Vietnamese dry cooked pork on a bed of shredded romaine, tomatoes, cucumber, cilantro, shredded carrots, and rice vermicelli.  I kept adding more lettuce, more cucumber, more tomato, until I was stuffed!  Why did I eat so much?  I was trying to watch TV and DH wanted my remote because the batteries were dead in his.  Usually, I fast-forward during commercials but I kept getting up and adding more veggies to my plate everytime a commercial came on.  Gimme back my remote!  You’re making me fat!  I’ll have to make a note of this.  I can only eat while I’m watching TiVo.   No eating during regular TV.  Too many commercials.