No, not yet. Still not there with my plans.

Bed last night….7:15 pm.

But I won’t dwell on this right now. The week is not over. If planning things in your head counts, then I’m on the upside. Neil is taking Friday off to have our van serviced and do that thingy with the sticker on the windshield - shoot, what’s that called? Anyway he is going to sort things, and I’m supposed to step in on Friday night and Saturday when he’s got some semblance of order. I’ve been tense all week over this.

Having joined the Weight Watcher’s web thingy, I tried to track my points online yesterday. I am disappointed that there are not more points values available for everyday foods. For example, I had a slice of pizza on Monday night from a local pizzeria. I don’t know if the pie was a 14″ or an 18″, but the points value is anywhere from 9 o 15. And yes, I am aware of what a lousy choice that was - I wasn’t even going to track Monday, but I decided to hold myself accountable. The website carries a lot of points values for store bought brands - pre-made food and restaurant chains and of course, all the Weight Watcher’s frozen foods and desserts. It seems to me that their frozen entrees, as well as most other brands, have ingredient lists that run into the thousands of words, many of them the names of obscure chemicals.

Monday was not a stellar day when it came to food. Tuesday was not too bad. I managed to reign myself in. One thing I did notice about the tracking was that it really brings it home when you make dumb choices. I like a cup of tea or coffee in the morning and I still use real sugar. I put 2% milk in my tea and half and half, if available, in my coffee. Trying to allocate points to this was hard. I estimated I’m using about 1/8th of a cup of milk or h&h. Then there’s the sugar, I estimate 2 tsp. I haven’t switched to skim milk or sugar substitutes because I figure it isn’t the tea and coffee that made me fat. My friend Jacqui, who is slim, figures the same thing. She never gave up on the half and half, although she doesn’t use sugar at all. Now I’m thinking I should look for the fat free half and half for our coffee. I just don’t know if I can give up the sugar. I could maybe cut it down, but I haven’t tasted a sugar substitute yet that wasn’t bitter. Even the new Truvia. Actually, that stuff is more bitter than either Equal or Splenda. And I can’t replace the 2% milk in my tea with skim. What would be the point of even having that cuppa? Instead, I limit my intake of tea or coffee to no more than two servings a day.

Yesterday instead of the gym, since the weather was so nice, I walked the grounds very briskly for 45 minutes and did 3 sets of climbing the stairs to the third floor. It seemed more strenuous to me than my usual workout on the elliptical, which I do for 30 minutes on a cardio setting at level 6. I try to get my pulse rate above 150.

Okay chickees, I can smell the coffee and I’ve got to go fold a load of laundry that I left unfinished last night.

Have a good day…