Sistah Pat

I slept in. Woke up at 7:00, went out to the spa for a few minutes with my coffee, and now I’m back inside. I don’t like working these hours. I have to leave here by 10:30 to be at school by 11:00 today. That means I have to start getting ready around 9:30 which means I only have about two hours of freedom and then I won’t get home until late. I’m going to try to get in a workout this morning. I need bandaids. Wore my cute little Liz Claiborne shoes yesterday and the bitch gave me blisters. Not a total disaster because I always have a change of shoes at work and I wore them the last couple of hours yesterday but the Lizzies started rubbing when I was all the way down at the far extreme of the school and they managed to do a little damage before I got back to my room to ditch them.

I’m still thinking about that C25K program. I think I’m going to download the first week to my MP3 when I get a chance and give it a try.

It seems like my diet has been terrible for ages. I MUST GET BACK ON TRACK! Lunch is provided today. They’re having it catered by The Spaghetti Shop. That doesn’t sound very promising. On top of that, we’ve got a potluck luncheon coming up on Friday. I think I must get off track simply because of boredom and laziness. Let’s face it…dieting can get kind of boring after a while. I’ve cooked the same old foods forever. I get tired of salads, fresh fruit, and low carb. Especially in light of the fact that I have 4 men living here who don’t like to eat it and usually do their own thing. Last night is a good example. I was going to broil some tilapia for dinner but DH said he was going to bread it and deep fry it for him and the boys. He also fried up a big pile of french fries. Once he got to frying, I just decided it was easier to throw my fish in with the rest. I ate greasy fried fish and french fries for dinner. As I was eating it, I was thinking, “These fries look good but they don’t really taste that great and the fish tastes greasy.” On top of that, I was running around spraying the house down with Febreeze because the whole house smelled greasy and fishy. Still…I ate two fish sandwiches and a pile of fries. Of course, I was up twice last night sick to my stomach so I guess there’s not too much left (I know, TMI) but I don’t know why I ate it in the first place. Boredom and laziness. I’m sick of Lean Cuisines. I’m tired of cooking a complete dinner for myself when DH is going to do his own thing and cook an entirely different meal. I have to give this some thought today. Figure out a way to deal with it. What I really need is a cookbook entitled A Whole New Bunch of Delicious, Healthy Recipes that are Heart-Healthy, Low-Fat, Low-Carb That Can be Prepared in Twenty Minutes or Less and Have no More than Six Ingredients. Maybe I should call Borders…anyone know the author’s name?

9:40 - I only have a couple of minutes.  I can blog while I cool off.  I get some kudos for taking an hour to workout when my time is really limited this morning.  I worked for an hour and the treadmill shows that I burned 600 calories but that doesn’t mean a thing because I wasn’t on it most of the time.  Jumped on and jogged a few times but the majority of the time I was doing aerobics.  Threw something new in today.  I grabbed my steps and worked out on them quite a bit.  I really enjoy step aerobics and they really got my heart rate up there.  I really should buy some kind of heart monitor that I can wear while I do aerobics and get a more accurate readout of how many calories I burn.  At any rate, I’m finding just a tad bit of backbone this morning.  I thought about the catered dinner at work.  I don’t even like spaghetti all that much and a plate of spaghetti is going to totally undo my workout calories.  I don’t think it’s worth it.  I’m just going to take a Lean Cuisine.  If I go down to the cafeteria, I’ll probably fall all over myself at the dessert table anyway.  So…I’m not even going down there.  I can be perfect…just for today…