The journey from fat to fit. Road trip, woo hoo!

Today is the last day of my way too busy work week.  I have three transcripts to get done over the weekend, and then a relatively light work load next week (only two depositions) because……. drum roll please……  I am having LASIK Thursday afternoon!  EEE GADS!

I have Friday as a day-after rest day and then next weekend I will have a light workload since I’ll have a light week, so hopefully I can catch up on everyone’s blogs!

This week has been crappy food wise but my exercise has been good.  Need to get the food under control, which isn’t going to happen today, what with a TWO HOUR each way commute to work (but only for today, thank God).  But that means I’ll be eating my breakfast and probably dinner on the road, so there goes healthy eating.  Could have planned ahead and had things to take with me but, no, I didn’t get around to any of that.

I skipped my weigh in this week because I had to work when I should have been at my Jenny Craig appt. and because I have been eating shit all week and didn’t want to see the results.  Time to buckle down and lose these last 15+/- pounds, but I’m having trouble finding the motivation to do it : (

Off to work now, bye!

I’ve been having a pretty “quiet” time work-wise, which has totally changed in the last two days and now I am in overload mode and thinking, man, I could sure get a lot more done if I just skip the gym until I’m all caught up.

But I’m not going to do it, so yay for me!  I am taking DD9 to school right now, she only has school from 8:30 to 10 am, which is ridiculous, but whatever.  That will give me time to drop off, go to the gym, do a quick 5k, shower and then pick her up.  Then I have to work, work, work, go to a graduation celebration and work some more.

My goal was to run four miles today and tomorrow, but there won’t be time today.  So I’ll be happy with getting in the three miles this morning.  If I am feeling really ambitious, I might be able to squeeze in a neighborhood run this evening after the family is fed etc.  Wouldn’t that be something, to go from too busy to run to getting in two runs in one day?  I guess that three miles in the a.m. and one mile in the p.m. still equals four miles for the day, right?

 UPDATE: Got behind schedule this morning and made it to the gym with EXACTLY 30 minutes to run.  So I ran 2.37 miles, 30 minutes, then zipped home for a shower.  Now I have 10 minutes to get my daughter picked up from school, delivered back home and then off to work for me.  I think I’ll have time to do upper body stuff this afternoon, then another half hour run in the neighborhood before bed.

I got a good bit of work done yesterday evening.  I went to bed at 8:30 pm and CRASHED.  So odd for me.  I obviously needed some sleep, though.  I was up at 5:30 am., back at my computer tackling the work.  I got DD9 up at 7 to prepare for her track meet and sent her off with a friend.  Friend’s mom is going to be there for the first half, until noon, and then I will relieve her at noon and bring both girls home.  Good compromise, but I feel guilty about not being there for her first two events.  But it does feel good to be making progress on the work that had me so freaked out.

So now it is 9 am, I have finished one of the three deposition transcripts that needed to be done by Monday, and am halfway through the second one.  But in reality I’m not really halfway done with the work, because the third one is the longest.  But, progress is progress, and now I am going to take a breakfast break, then get back to work before I go to the track meet.

I doubt I’ll get in any exercise today and will probably indulge in a hotdog at the concession stand, so food is not looking too promising either.  Maybe I’ll take a banana with me.

I am really angry with myself.  I screwed around this week here and there when I should have been working, and as a result I have deadlines to meet by Monday morning which means working over the weekend.  DD9 has a track meet Saturday 9 am to 4 pm.  I have a church volunteer commitment Saturday 5-7 pm and Sunday 9-noon.  Then I am sure there’s going to be some kind of lunch for Mother’s Day (of course, shame on me for assuming, knowing my kids, haha).  And through all of this, I have several hours of work to do, I mean, seriously, like 10 hours at my computer.  Why do I do this to myself!  ARGH!  And what am I doing right now?  Watching this week’s episodes of General Hospital on Tivo and reading blogs and posting.  I SHOULD BE WORKING RIGHT NOW but I’m all sweaty from the gym and need a shower and need dinner and am “on break.”  Problem is, I took way too many breaks this week and now I’m screwed for the weekend.

 I keep thinking that some day I’ll learn my lesson, but at age 42 and many years of this bad pattern under my belt, I don’t know if this old dog has any new tricks up her sleeve.  My destiny is going to be to be continuously behind schedule.  ARRRGGHHH!

I had to put in another full day of work today and I am so wiped.  I did get my dress picked up from the tailor and they did a great job of altering the shoulders.  I am so short and shortwaisted that nothing ever fits properly, so I took it in to have the shoulders “shortened” so the dress wasn’t so floppy on top.  It looks really good.  I’ll get a pic taken tomorrow so I can post it. 

Tomorrow is the dinner/dance/auction.  Formal attire, but DH is wearing a suit, refused the tux, and that’s OK.  He won’t be the only one.  I’m actually looking forward to it now that I have a dress that I feel pretty in.

Tomorrow Princess has a basketball game at freaking 8:30 am, location 45 minutes away from home.  Gag.  After that, I’ve got a hair appt. and want to try to get a walk in appt. for eyebrow wax and pedicure.  I did my manicure tonight and it’s fabulous… rich girl red.

Not much to write about.  Work was boring and my children have been totally neglected (McD for dinner, yuck) and I didn’t get any exercise.

Oh, well, tomorrow is another day : )

I had to work today.  This is only the third job I have done this month, so I really NEEDED to work, but, man, did it blow.  It was an easy job and only lasted two hours, but I am so out of my work mode right now.  I took off two weeks during the holidays, and then DD20 started school in January and I am on baby-duty from 3 - 9 pm five nights a week with the grandchild.  So I had to turn down any jobs that would last all day and only go out on half day jobs.  I had a decent amount of work scheduled, but had four or five last minute cancellations.

Back to the point here… I have been lazing around the house on my ass all month and now I have to actually work and I don’t like it!  Lazing = good, work = bad.  I actually did a huge amount of volunteering at Princess’ school this month, which has been a lot of fun, so it hasn’t been complete lazing.

On the bright side, being busy helps me stay on my food program because I don’t have time to snack and I don’t have time to really prepare anything for myself other than my JC meals, which are oh so convenient.  I had the fish and chips tonight, and that is one of my favorites.  It’s really tasty.  I had an excellent day food wise.

We did a lot of eating out over the weekend and I really feel like my food is under control.  I like that feeling.  I am the master of my domain!  My only weak spot has been chips and salsa.  We ate Mexican food twice over the weekend and both times I went overboard on the chips and salsa.  The salsa is a free food on JC, so that’s a nonissue, but I need to get my chip eating under control.  Other than that, I did great ordering healthy options, no heavy sauces, nothing too cheesy.

I have to work ALL DAY tomorrow, off Thursday and then ALL DAY Friday.  I know I sound like a major whiner complaining about working ALL DAY, but being a court reporter is actually quite demanding physically.  When I put in an eight hour day, my neck and shoulders kill me.  And after two hours sitting in the same position in a usually uncomfortable chair, I start squirming like I have ants in my pants.  And forget about getting all of my water in on those days because then I’d have to pee and peeing is not allowed.  Well, peeing is allowed, but only on a limited basis.

So, woe is me as I rejoin the rat race.  Maybe I will find a bag of money in the gutter tomorrow, enough to carry me for another month of lazing.  And there will be chocolate in the bottom of the money bag, and it’ll be fat free and calorie free but still taste like real chocolate.