Hi gals.... I'm back from my MX trip now and looking slightly browner although I wear 40 SPF Zinc & Titanium Oxide all the time when I am down there. I look at all the flabby, beet red, peeling bodies of the other tourists and am appalled. Doesn't anyone care about their bodies anymore??!! I'm telling you, there were Brazilian Bikinis down there on some sz XXL bodies, I'm sure of it. Ugh, if anyone
shouldn't wear a thong-ish sort of outfit with a couple of pasties it's someone who is peeling from a burn & 100 lbs overweight. On a couple of really hot days I strolled along under a blindingly neon pink Victoria's Secret umbrella, lol. Perhaps I will bring back the pale look one day.
Ok enough trash talk....
So much reading to catch up with everyone!
Sounds like everyone is back in the swing of things, I hope we get all our issues straightened out whatever they may be, physical or emotional traumas. I don't remember ever being in a Tony Roma's... sounds like I won't even bother. The restaurant I hate & my MIL loves is Swiss Chalet. YUK!! Lucky we don't have either around our little town.
I am up a couple of lbs, back to 140, but I weighed myself after a 36 hr day filled with pyramid climbing, cycling, long bouts of walking, red-eye flights with screamingly tight connections, and then home to find an 'issue' with the phone company that we got DH's mom's cell from. So perhaps it is just inflammation... we'll see in a couple days when I weigh again. I will vent about the cell phone/family issues in another post when I feel a serious craving for a couple jiggers of the SKYY vodka that is sitting in my fridge.
I don't know... personally I love the carb fat separation thing, but that is how my cravings usually go anyhow - sometimes I just want to eat all the salty fatty things, mac nuts, blue cheese, avocados, bacon; and sometimes I want to eat all the carby things, fresh strawberries with balsamic vinegar syrup, crunchy jalapeno tortilla chips & salsa, fresh pineapple, a mound of perfect fluffy basmati rice with only fresh ground seasalt & pepper. It just seems that that is my intuitive way of eating anyhow (it was before I gained weight due to illness). I figure if I want something that is too much of an equal mix, I can eat it for breakfast, which was the answer I was given when I wrote in to ask IP head office if it was an OK thing to do for maintenance.
My issues these days is just an off schedule, with way less time to exercise & I need it for my sanity, and hardly any time to connect with friends because our schedules don't mesh. I feel bummed about planning the meals lately. Good news is DH has started his work season so I won't have to contend with fitting our day schedules together and consulting on what's happening when. It is much easier when you are on your own for the day and don't have to take into account someone else's plans.
Tomorrow is a day filled with a dental cleaning appointment, a possible emergency-brake repair job (rear caliper seems to be sticking slightly & heating up), and a write up of a little 5 minute presentation I am doing on Thursday. Luckily no work til March 8th. I won tickets from the radio station this morning for playoff seats with our local Junior A hockey team - that's Monday. DH & I and all 3 parents are going out to celebrate our 2 anniversaries (on the 13th it is our 34th, and on the 22nd it is Mom & Dad's 53rd) at a concert of El Mariachi Los Dorados on the 15th.
http://www.losdorados.ca/home
And we have an 80's Film Festival with dress up potential and prizes that runs all three days & nights this weekend, lol. Gotta figure out a retro costume.
I
am busy this month, holy smokes, at least with fun stuff...
Liana