Yesterday was a disaster. We had a last minute lunch meeting called and we had to leave at 11am to get there and it was going to last until 2pm. No way could I eat lunch here before or wait until after --- I figured I’d just have to figure what I could eat and eat a lot of that. Well, it was more a deli luncheon so that was good. I skipped the potato and pasta salads and got several pieces of roast beast, turkey, Swiss cheese and a piece of provolone cheese and skipped right past the dessert table. Well, since I’ve been coming in at 15-19% fat I had figured I could afford some butter in my oatmeal in the morning – soooooo after that and the cheese and the roast beast my fat percentage on fitday was up to 47% fat!!!! OMG!!! It has to be wrong, doesn’t it? Hindsight, I might have tried to sneak in my lunch, but it was a business lunch and I just wasn’t sure how well that would have gone over. It was impromptu and very secretive as to the agenda, but important enough for quite a few big wigs to have come in off vacation for the meeting. Turns out the company was sold to USA Networks. Our now former owners got paid a pretty multi-million dollar penny for a company they started from nothing by maxing out their credit cards. Nice to know it can still happen in America. Also, the new company has promised to keep things exactly the same – after all, what we’re doing here must work or we wouldn’t be so profitable. They said they’ll pretty much leave us alone and enjoy the additional revenues from buying us as long as we’re making the numbers….doesn’t sound like a bad deal to me if it’s true – NOW, if they’ll just throw in some stock options and discounts at their other companies like Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster!
With my face aches and eye problems I haven’t worked out since last Wednesday.
I’m really feeling guilty and desperate to get back into the gym.
did that come out of my fingertips???? I know that my weight doesn’t come off by itself I have to be exercising to get results from the plan. I’ve also had no problem getting my 1900 calories the past few days and have cut it close or gone over a couple of days – I much prefer to be cutting it very close and struggling to get there – means it will be easier to go down when the weight goes down and the calories need to go with it.
I think it’s going to be chick flick day tomorrow. I don’t really want to get out in the heat and battle the crowds. Vince will be on bike patrol so it’s not like he’s going to be doing anything that I need to be there for support for this year. Last year the Honor Guard presented the flag and it was a big deal for him so I went and filmed it and fussed over him and the other guys – made ‘em all feel good even though they pshawed me for doing it. I could tell some of them were tickled since their wives don’t really give a crap about what they do. They have the biggest grins in the pictures I took. I’m roasting a turkey tomorrow too. I wish they made sandwich meat without all the preservatives and crap in it. We may start roasting a turkey or something every other week or so for sandwich/salad meat.
Someone asked about the food scale and I can’t remember who, I’m sorry. But I saved the box and I’lll post the info on it from home. It was about 30 bucks. White, electronic. Has a platform and if you’re using a container you can put the container on the platform empty, set the weight for pounds or ounces, weigh and then push a “tare” button and it will reset the scale at zero from there so when you add the food it doesn’t weigh the container. It’s pretty cool and easy to use. I really like it cause I’ve been guessing at my cheese for so long now.
LDBLOND – Those big screens for work are nice, until you don’t want someone to see your screen, huh? I am so thankful that my computer screen faces away from anyone. They’d have to walk around behind my desk to see what’s on my computer. I hope things slow down for you soon!
DEBBIE – CONGRATS ON THE NEW ALL TIME LOW!!! 127 – I think I may have been 10 years old last time I saw that weight. I remember weighing 135 in 7th grade and that was 11 or 12 yrs. old. It keeps threatening to rain at our house, but hasn’t so far and my little tomato plant could really use it. (But not tomorrow!) It’s rained everywhere in our neighborhood except for our little loop! I drive through rain on the way home just knowing the yard finally got some rain and our loop is bone dry – go figure!!
NANCEMEISTER – That scrapbooking could be a little side business for you. I have one I have only gotten about 4 pages done and about 100 pictures to add to it! Here at work we’ve had (paid for) several to be put together for various and sundry reasons. We hired this chick to do one for the owners of our company on the 17th anniversary of the company being founded. Everyone submitted pictures, poems, thoughts, quotes, anything they wanted and could think of and this girl took it all and made a huge, beautiful, colorful “book of memories” for them. Turns out it was perfect timing as they announced yesterday they just sold the company. (The book was my idea – some role model I am, huh? Just glad they didn’t ask me to put it together!!!)
ADAMSRIB – I work with a bunch of 30 and 40-ish “social butterflies”. They throw some of the greatest “theme” parties. We just had a happy hour “remove the curse” party to ward off anymore sink holes from forming under our building. Part of the ceremony included “Put the Lime in the Coconut”. It was fun. Loved your motivational story. That’s all we can do sometimes, but it sure it nice to have someone to cry with when you need it. Personally, I prefer B-52’s or B-53’s if I’m going to have anything with Kaluha in it.
Your story about your husband leaving a stink bomb behind for you to claim was tooo funny!! I was laughing my head off over here and now I have to share with my office mate so he doesn’t think I’m crazy. (I just hope he doesn’t go pull this one on his wife now!)
FLY - You’ll get used to reading those labels!
I hate to think of what Meister and I looked like in the grocery store the first few times we went shopping for SB friendly foods! There’s a thread Debbie started on “Favorite SB Friendly Foods” for a start. I know Del Monte chopped canned tomatoes are the only ones without added sugar in our store. (ALL brands of the flavored ones have added sugar). CLASSICO has quite a few spaghetti sauces without sugar and I think Del Monte has canned spaghetti sauce without sugar now, too. WE tried it last week and Vince said it will make a better pizza sauce. I have a couple of recipes from Cooking Light on making your own spaghetti sauce which is much healthier I’ll try to post.
FATCAT – I’ve found using FitDay really helps, too! I
thought I was eating well balanced meals, but realized I was eating way too much fat when I started using Fitday. I’ve gotten much better, but blew it yesterday. I actually enjoy eating more “whole” foods and less cooking and I certainly feel better since I’ve been doing this. Can’t wait to see what my blood tests reveal.
FROG – Loved your quote! I think that’s sooooo cool that hubby does yoga with you! Vince keeps trying to get me to do his martial arts stuff with him, but I’m just not interested. We do rollerblade together and work out at the same gym (just not usually at the same time). He would LOVE to talk to your hubby. He has total admiration for the Rangers, Seals, etc. and is in great awe of them. You are on a roll cleaning up your body, soul and spirit! If that includes cleaning up your friends, then, so be it. If you start filling your schedule with people and events (camping in your 2nd home) that you enjoy and build you up then you just won’t have time for all that negative influence in your life. I was excited when I moved to Orlando to be able to “start afresh” with new, better kinds of friends, new job, new independence, etc…. And started down the same path I had been in before, just in a new city. When I ended up getting a really good job and started making friends there I just didn’t have time for the “old” crowd and the “new” friends were ambitious, kind-hearted, fun and responsible – it was just what I had wanted and the transition was a smooth one since I already had plans when my old friends called. With DH supporting your decision that’s going to be an easy one. You have
WAY TOO MUCH going for you and
WAY TOO MUCH to give to people for your time to be wasted on people who don’t appreciate how wonderful you are. OOOhhhh, muscle tone --- I long for the day when you can see muscle tone on my body……..’scuse me while I drift off into fantasy land……………
QUILTER - Your persistence is motivating and it will pay off! I’ve been slack in the exercise department – well, I guess I can blame it on the stupid eye/face thing – when your head is pounding it’s hard to get to the gym and, for some reason my energy was totally zapped, too. Thankfully, the scale is still holding at 201.5. I plan to get my rear in gear so I can post about adding jogging, too, one day!
The poem was very cool; thanks for sharing it!
SEF - We didn’t have Home Depot in Mississippi when I first moved down here and every time my parents came to visit my dad would find some project he HAD to take on at our house just so’s he could run to Home Depot!
Now we find ourselves going quite a bit, but we aren’t on a first name basis with them. You crack me up! So glad you post here!
AMSERAPHIM – Hey – ain’t nuthin’ wrong with
3 – 3.2 mph club – That’s the one I’m in!
We’ll have a happy dance celebration when we “graduate” from that one! Crabbing? I’m soooo jealous!! We ate at a wonderful seafood restaurant when we passed through Savannah on our vacation – can’t remember the name of it, but they had a hole in the table that was right over the garbage can for you to put your shells in. Everyone around us was so nice and friendly we had a huge multi-table conversation during dinner. That would NEVER happen in Florida – not enough “true southerners” here. They look at me like I’m crazy just for saying, “hi” in the elevator (I secretly enjoy making them squirm). “Oh, no, it’s that weird girl that always looks me in the eye and tells me good morning. Look at the floor – look at the floor – maybe she’ll ignore me – oh, no……….” I’m gonna have to come up there for some gardening lessons, myself – I do finally have 2 tomatoes changing to orange on my lone plant – Vince and I are like expecting parents brooding over these tomatoes.
RHOO NO WAY will we get sick of hearing the Hubby Health Updates!! Keep ‘em coming and, I’m anticipating that every day will be as good as this one!! Those guys DO lose it quicker, don’t they? For his sake I do hope it comes off pretty easy – don’t know how well they can cope with those stalls – they’re hard enough for us women even with this great support group! Maybe you could do like I did in high school and change clothes on the way to the concert? NOOOOO!!! That would be teaching those children bad habits. Bad Sonya! Bad Sonya!!
But, I for one, think if you have gotten to where you can wear a leather skirt without looking like a cow who strayed from the field you absolutely SHOULD! I’d be checked for branding and sent out to pasture. You work nights? No wonder you can hang at all these late night concerts! When we first got married Vince worked nights and I worked days – on his days off he kept the same sleeping schedule so we hardly ever slept in the bed at the same time, unless we “planned” it. You have my utmost respect!! Funny thing about those budgets….I had planned on getting rid of that responsibility when I got married and it hasn’t happened in my house either…although now I kind of like the power of the say so if we can afford it or not…..tickets to LV, yes – a new rifle scope – no, sorry, can’t afford it.
KRISTA – My weight is coming off at slower than a snail’s pace, BUT I do feel better. Staying the same is a victory in my book – especially if the scale has been consistently going up as it was in my case. I can hardly keep up with this board, so, sorry, no, I don’t do the SweetTalk board. Sounds like if that board has a lot of people sending out negative thoughts and ideas that it’s no wonder people are leaving. You hear something long enough and you’ll start to believe it whether it’s true or not.
BOB, MELF, GATOR, SPARKLE, MARIE, CATLOVER, EVERYONE ELSE....
HAVE A GREAT DAY, EVERYONE!! (Sorry for the book, but there were just that many posts to catch up on - I you all are so wonderful I just didn't want to miss anyone!)