Hello, hello and happy Monday (except I wasn’t very happy this morning about having to get up for work; slept poorly and was really, really tired). Hopefully, I will do better today than yesterday. I’ve been doing SO well with my eating, sticking right to my point totals each day, and feeling very virtuous (especially after losing those two pounds last week!) and I did very well over the weekend until
LAST FREAKING NIGHT when I couldn’t sleep….. well, earlier, DH and I drove out into the country looking for farm stands (and yummy fresh-picked tomatoes!) again, only this time southwest of Worcester instead of northwest (just to interject a little variety) and not only found a great farm stand and loaded up on tomatoes, zucchini and summer squash, cucumbers, and two (count ‘em – just two) ears of corn for DH, but also drove out to the apple orchards and got some nice early Macintoshes plus some Macintosh apple sauce (0 grams of fat, high in fiber and very little sugar) and THEN kept on driving until we got to the Quabbin Reservoir where we got out and did some walking, but not so much as last week (and I didn’t do any bike riding this weekend; I’ve been in an exercise slump). Dropped some tomatoes off to my girls, and then went home and baked two apple pies (one for DH and one for dinner tonight at DD3’s for her DH’s birthday). We had a pork tenderloin roast for supper with a small (for me) baked sweet potato, Brussels sprouts and apple sauce. Yummy. DH had apple pie for dessert and I had one of my WW ice cream bars (More yummy). Took a bath, went to bed, and woke up at @ midnight STARVING to death. Weirdest thing! Came out to the kitchen and ate another ice cream bar (Now I’m two points over for the day – or since it’s midnight, is that technically two points into today’s eating? Anyway, that didn’t do it for me, so I ended up eating
a Fiber One bar, which brought me up FOUR points over, and THEN I just couldn’t help it – I ate a sliver of that danged pie! Just a sliver, but boy, was that crust good…and it was just tart enough to be REALLY GOOD as opposed to too sweet…oh what a GREAT pie!!!!! (Hey, I made it with Splenda instead of sugar! That’s
something, right?) Anyway, I haven’t even
attempted to figure out those points – I’m just writing it off as a “blown” day and starting fresh today. I swear, I don’t know what came over me! I was ravenous! Needless to say,
I won’t be weighing myself today. I’m one of those people who just plain doesn’t WANT to know the bad stuff.
Well,
Lynn, if joining the Peace Corps would give me “Private Benjamin’s” shape, I’d be down there signing on right now! Considering how lousy I’ve been about exercising lately too, I probably couldn’t get through the most basic of basic trainings – not the way I’ve been feeling – more like a wet wrung out dishrag than a human bean! AND we’ve had some unreal swings in weather – from the 60’s and damp to the 90’s and sunny & humid for a couple of days and now chilly and damp again today. One of the reasons I kept waking up, too, was that I kept coughing. It seems to come and go since I had that bout of bronchitis a few weeks or a month ago.
Good job resisting temptation,
Lynn. Wish I’d been as successful myself!
Hey,
Tee…yup…paying bills sure
is what we live for, or it feels that way, anyway. And you’re right – “change is in the air”. I’m just not sure what I want to (or can) change into, you know?
Ali? I HATE shopping! I HATE schlepping around malls like that, and yet end up doing it – usually with one of my daughters. I consider it one of those necessary sacrifices of motherhood (but I don’t LIKE it).
You really made me giggle,
Meowee-Linda, with that offer to wrap and send a cat to
Tee. There are
definitely times when I’d gladly send our Yoko off to whoever would take her (usually when I’m petting her and she turns around and bites my hand. SO cat-like, eh?) But mostly, I love her, brat that she undoubtedly is!
Gee,
Trish, aren’t your arms tired from all that *flying by*??????
Hmmm,
Bobbi, gotta wonder why I wasn’t using Tide when I was married to my ex.
Welcome
Sho6…..nice to meet you!
Glad your foot’s doing a little better,
Phyl. Probably the eating out gave you higher points than you realized, don’t you think? For some reason, when restaurants prepare your food, I think they add a cup of points as well. I bet you’ll do a lot better if you’re making it yourself.
Some of us haven’t done too well this past weekend. Oh well, Today’s a new day, right?
Jo-annie –
Karen? Everything okay?
Have a great day,
Golden Girlies, wherever you may be!
TTFN,
Z