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

… and posted about it here.  If you care.  Which maybe you don’t.  But if you do, stop over and say hi.

I’d post my food log but it’s almost 11 and I have yet to eat anything, so I figured I’d hold out until lunch.

Heading off for my camping trip shortly.  I’ll be using my cell to “mobile blog” on my new site while I’m gone.  Is it wrong to hate camping but love ’smores?  Is it wrong to have a ’smore for breakfast?  I wonder which beer goes best with ’smores?  These are the things I will ponder on my two-hour drive to the camp out, me, the lone adult in a car with three 9-year-old girls watchng the newest Ashely Tisdale movie on DVD.  Is it wrong to drive with headphones on?

I checked the settings on my new blog, where I posted this morning, and it says it’s open to anyone for comments, so I hope that kink is worked out.

When I tried to add you guys’s (pronounced you guy-zes) blogs to my blog roll, the click just takes you to the generic 3fc home page for each one, not to the individual blog.  Will have to work out that kink after I return from camping hell.

I have a question about canning on my other blog if anyone cans, or cares, or cares to can, or cares to respond.  This entire post is a link.  How lazy is that?

You guys are sweet and supportive, thanks!  My new blog is shanaob.blogspot.com

 Nothing there yet except random cell phone photos as I am experimenting with mobile blogging, which, OMG, how addicting is that.

So… food for today, not looking so hot so far, but I have been gone all day which doesn’t help.

Breakfast: 1/2 a bagel with homemade jam

Lunch: “New Orleans Flat Iron Steak Salad.”  Doesn’t that sound good?  Well… PSYCHE!  It was a piece of chewy overcooked steak covered in bottled “buffalo” sauce (which is so NOT New Orleans, thank you very much) served on a bed of iceburg lettuce, just the white part (yum-NOT) and a couple of cherry tomatos that I swear smelled like salmonella.  Thanks, Sheri’s Restaurant!

Dinner: JC potstickers and lemon cake, a diet coke

Snack: three homemade pot stickers (so not jenny craig and totally yum), some melon, two cookies, diet coke (went to a recital w/ reception following)

Exercise: nothing yet, and this is supposed to be a run day, but I just don’t know if it’s going to happen.  DH is already gone camping and I need to finish up work so I can leave tomorrow to join him.  I’ll be taking DD9 and two of her girl scout friends.  So does that count as exercise… an exercise in keeping my sanity! ha

UPDATE: Did not exercise at all.  It’s quarter til 10 and I am just getting home and am going to get back to work on my transcript.  Going girl scout camping tomorrow… am bound and determined to get up and run in the morning before the day gets away from me.  Also need to can cherries tomorrow because they’ll be wasted if I don’t.  Wah, too much to do.

… starting a sewing project because, hello, I bought an assload of patterns and fabric etc. when I was on my “sewing roll” and haven’t touched any of it.  Typical me.  So I’m thinking a simple skirt for work.

I am thinking about breaking up with Jenny Craig.  We really don’t have that much in common anymore and aren’t spending as much time together as we used to.  I’m not sure if it’s best to have “the talk” or just stop calling.  Maybe make her a mixed tape?  Breaking up is hard to do, but moving on is a good thing.

We’re going camping with girl scouts this weekend.  Forecast for where we will be is high of 64 low of 51 for the weekend.  Now tell me, doesn’t that sound grand? NOT

I’m thinking about starting a new blog on blogger.com.  Will any of my 3fc friends bookmark it and still comment and still be my friends?  I worry about these things.  Tried it once before but didn’t really put much effort into it.  But I just figured out how to mobile blog from my phone onto blogger and, omg, how much fun is that.  Snap a camera photo, enter a caption, press a button and, voila!, it’s on the blog.

Is it wrong that I want to have a more generalized blog to share with family and friends and I don’t want the name “fat chicks” in the url?  I am shallow.  I’m sorry.

I saw on someone’s 3fc blog that they are working towards an October goal so they can get into a cool Halloween costume.  How much do you love that idea!?  I am now obsessed with searching the Web for somewhat slutty-yet-still-mom-appropriate costumes that I can work towards as a goal.  I don’t know why losing weight makes me want to be a little bit slutty, but there you go.  Not slutty in attitude, mind you, but kind of hot-mom-showing-a-little-too-much, if you know what I mean.

Loved the line in the SATC movie when shopping for Halloween costumes, something along the lines of the only choices a woman has are witch or sexy kitten.  So right on.

My morning goal was get up and work on the court hearing transcript from hell, get 40 pages done and take with me to the eye doctor to proofread while waiting for my appt.  And now, oops, I am still in bed on my laptop and it’s time to get dressed and go to the eye doctor with no proofreading and no work done.  Crap.

I just ate half a bag of Flaming Hot Doritos.  Not a little snack bag… but not the family sized bag either.  The regular big bag of doritos.  Half.  Of the Bag.  By myself.  After dinner.  When I was not even hungry.

I thought you would want to know.

Oh, my bad… they’re buffalo, not flaming.  Pardon my dorito faux passe.

DH and DD9 had ice cream and I did not have any.  Do I get points for that?

DD9 and I had this big plan.  We were going to ride our bikes to a farm 5 miles away that has u-pick and a nice market.  Friend of mine said, wow, that’s ambitious, it’s pretty hill.  So I decided maybe we should scope it out first, plus we needed to go to the store and it was near where we would be biking.  Loaded the bikes on the bike rack, thinking worse case scenario, we’ll go to the store, load our store goods in the car, then park at the trail head and bike to the farm.  That would still give us a 3+ mile bike ride and would eliminate the big hill from our house to the trail head.

Long story short, we drove past the farm and OMG it was very hilly, so we ended up driving to the farm with our bikes on the car, which is a form of biking is some warped logic, right?  I mean, we went there WITH our bikes, just not ON our bikes.  We bought rasberries, blackberries and sour cherries for canning, plus hit the grocery store and bought pectin and jars and lids.  Also bought some yummy local tomatos to have with dinner.

Then we parked at the trail head and decided we’d just ride the trails for a little while.  TALK ABOUT HILLY.  Our version of mountain biking went a little something like this: push the bikes up the hill then coast down.  Approach next hill, repeat.

WHY would anyone want to ride a bike uphill on purpose?  I do not get it at all.  And I’m talking little baby hills here, not mountain bike territory by any means.  DD9 was afraid to go too fast downhill.  I was loving it.  She said, “What am I going to do if you get hurt?”  I told her to take the cell phone out of my pocket and call 911.  Ha.  She didn’t like that at all.

Got home, googled how to make jam, and cooked up our berries.  We made freezer jam with all of the berries, but tomorrow I am going to try boiling water bath canning with the cherries.  We’ll see how that goes.

Then it was time to go to DD9’s violin lesson.  It’s 2.5+ miles each way.  We get about ten blocks and she is whining, doesn’t want to go up the hill.  So we would ride two blocks, stop and drink water.  Did this for about 10 blocks until we were no longer going uphill and were flat.  From there we made it to violin OK and even had a nice big hill to coast down at the end.  We all know what going down a nice big hill on your way TO your destination means, but apparently this isn’t so obvious when you are nine, so she was not freaking out, yet.

Had the lesson, everything is swell, and now it is time to bike home.  We get a couple of blocks and we’re at THE HILL.  DD9 starts in.  I can’t do it.  I can’t do it.  I am thinking NEITHER CAN I, BUT YOU DON’T HEAR ME WHINING ABOUT IT!  So I’m being the cheerleader, come on, we can do it, we’re so tough.  She’s not buying it and gets off to push her bike up the hill.  I decided to teach that kid a lesson, and I stood up on my pedals and hauled my still chubby ass up that bitch of a hill without stopping!  I thought I was going to die.  But I made it.

I turned around to glare at DD9 in triumph, and she is pushing her bike up the hill with her head resting on her arm on her handle bars, half asleep.  I said, HEY, LOOK AT ME, I MADE IT UP THE HILL.  She looks up and starts crying because she wants me to get off my bike and push.  UGH.  I said no way, I’m biking all the way home.  Eventually she got back on her bike and rode home, but JEEZ what an ordeal!

As part of the continued mother-daughter bonding fun that we were having, I made her pull the stems off of 3 lb of cherries while I pitted them.  I think our bond is now pretty much set for life.  What a job pitting 3 lb of cherries is.

Now she is in the car with dad going to the grocery store that is about a quarter of a mile away.  IN THE CAR!  Can you believe.  She now considers dad to be much more civilized than mom, what with his fanciful car driving to easily walkable and bikeable locations.  ((My new rule is if it’s within three miles, no freeway, we’re biking it.))

Whoever coined the phrase lazy days of summer obviously didn’t have shit to do, because I am going to need a vacation to recover from summer vacation if we keep at it at this pace!  I’m kind of glad I have to work tomorrow.

Breakfast: skipped it, had a fasting blood draw this morning.  Did have a bottle of water

Lunch: JC turkey burger, small garden salad, bag of JC cheetos, can of diet coke

Dinner: small piece of salmon, 1/2 a sweet potato, small scoop of leftover potato salad and a sliced tomato

Dessert: 1/2 a bagel with homemade jam

Exercise: Biked to and from DD9’s violin lesson (2.53 miles each way), also biked around the park for 45 minutes, but no idea of distance.  Using our “road” time to violin, I would estimate we biked 3+ miles at the park.  I’m still feeling Monday’s upper body work out and ab work, so I guess it’s time to do it again.  Hopefully I can get that done tonight.

UPDATE: Did my upper body workout, plus 100 crunches