Sistah Pat

5:30 a.m. - The scales say 171. What’s that about??? I only dipped down into the 160s for about 15 minutes and I want to go back. Where is this weight coming from? Why do I always have to exercise like crazy to lose anything??

This has not put me in a good mood and is not a good way to start the day. On the other hand, DH asked why I had a half dozen jackets, blouses, etc. thrown on the bed when he got home from work yesterday and I explained about the mad scramble to find something to wear when my top and jacket didn’t fit yesterday morning. You could have knocked me over with a feather when he suggested we drive up to Edinburgh, Indiana tomorrow afternoon to a big outlet mall up there so I could do some shopping. I really like that mall they have up there but it’s an hour and a half away from us and I haven’t been up there for a while. He said we could drive up in the RV, spend the night in a campground, and come back Saturday afternoon. He’s probably doing this as an act of self-preservation because he can feel a big shopping spree coming on!

6:30 - Okay, I’m ready for work and waiting for the boys to finish getting ready. It occured to me that I’ve been eating processed foods again. Maybe that’s part of the problem. Of course, when I went to fix my lunch, all I seem to have are Lean Cuisines. I’m going to have to pick up some other stuff for lunch. It also occured to me that I might feel better if I made a graph of my weight loss to date to see if there’s a pattern. I’m going to work on that while I wait for the boys to finish.

11:45 - Lunchtime!  Yes, I’m having another lean cuisine.  Promise to go to the store and address that issue this afternoon.  I threw out the yogurt I brought because it looked and tasted gross.  Had a Luna protein bar instead.  Man, I hate to spend that many calories on something so small.  Made the graph and put it in here.  I don’t guess I have any reason to complain.  It actually looks pretty consistent.  It just takes so long…

7:45 - I still didn’t make it to the store but I’m going to thaw and grill a chicken breast and make some summer rolls for lunch tomorrow.  The boys are at Civil Air Patrol and I’ll have DS stop by the store for me before he picks them up and brings them home to pick up some real food.  Dinner was a disaster.  DH threw some sirloin in the crock pot with cream of mushroom soup, made green beans and mashed potatoes to go with it.  I really didn’t feel like fixing anything for myself so I decided to eat what he’d prepared but found it to be rather gross.  He didn’t trim the beef like I would have.  On meat, I remove every teeny bit of fat or gristle.  I don’t care if I have to throw out half of it.  He didn’t and my first bite was gristly.  Yuck!  I ate some green beans but he added butter to them and they weren’t that great so I only ate about a cup of them.  I ate about a half cup of mashed potatoes but decided they weren’t worth the calories either.  I took another bite of beef and it had fat on it.  Ewwwww!!  That was enough for me.  It hit the trash along with the rest of the stuff on my plate.  Of course, this is just between us, girls!  DH doesn’t know anything about it.  He took his plate into the family room to watch TV and thinks I ate dinner.  As I said a couple of months ago, my new code is “If it has a lot of calories and I don’t particularly like it, I’m not eating it.”  Notice that I didn’t put these restrictions on items that may have a lot of calories but taste fantastic!  That’s a decision that takes a little more thought. 

Better get off here and make a grocery list.