Sabotage, Sabotage

Last WI: 214.6/At Home WI: 214.6 (better, but not good).

THURSDAY

Well it's Thursday - WI day - and I have mixed emotions. I woke up yesterday to 216+ on the scale and really felt my week was over. Part of that high number was the beers I had the night before, but it was also a good part legitimate bad eating. I planned to have a perfect day yesterday. It started off right with my balance bar for breakfast but when I got to work, Holly was waiting for me. She works with me, but usually in a different office. She had to come by our office for something so we caught up and gossiped for a while. She ended up staying till after 11:00 and wanted to go to lunch. Now this is the bride I described before - eats EVERYTHING and will be wearing a size 2 wedding dress. Yes 2. So she of course wanted to go to Slices - a great pizza place down the road. I had planned on subway for my "perfect day" but gave in (surprise surprise). I did only have 1 slice of pizza - it's one of those places that have huge slices - and she had two (bitch). :-)

Obviously the scale is down this morning, though frankly I'm surprised. I was late getting out of work and had agreed to volunteer at the fair again last night. So I picked up McDonald's for dinner - very healthy. Then after a few hours at the fair I agreed to let Erik get me a hot dog - didn't need it. And finally, instead of going to the gym when my shift ended at 8:30 I went home. And had a glass of wine. Oh the good choices abound.

So this week has sucked. It's so common for me to have like 4-6 weeks of going great and then sabotage. I know I'll see a gain if I go to WI today. I'm thinking about not going. Now I know they always say you should "face the music" and WI anyway. But I hate seeing the gain. I don't know. I haven't decided. I think part of it will depend on scheduling. I've got an appointment out of the office at 3:00 to meet with a witness (named Pig - charming huh?). If I get done with that appointment in time, I should be able to go home, change cars and clothes and WI before I need to be at the fair at 5:45 (last night of volunteering). The good news is that for the 2nd week in a row I won't have my typical Thursday night after WI drinking binge due to the fair commitment. Any hot dog/fair food I eat could not be worse that consuming bar food and 10 beers.

So here's the plan. I've let myself go this week on both food and exercise. I'll forgive myself that. We all need a break now and then. I have got to recommit though. WI or no WI today I have got to make this coming week a good one. I'm back to a normal schedule with the exception of Saturday which will be crazy football day. Holly's an Alabama grad and I'm an FSU grad. Well, this year is the first year in a very long time that our teams play each other. So we got tickets. It's a game in Jacksonville so Holly, Dana, me and Erik are driving down Saturday for a 5:00 game and have to come back afterwards because Holly has to teach Sunday school in the morning. Will be a very long day with one of us very unhappy. But should be fun regardless. I'm looking forward to it. Tomorrow night we're celebrating Erik's birthday with friends. He turned 36 last Friday but had family in town, and then the fair, so we haven't really been able to celebrate. So I will be DD that night and he will be getting toasted I'm sure. That should be fun. And then Sunday we have a different poker league that has a game. Busy weekend, but with the exception of Saturday (game day!) I should be able to make some good food choices AND get some exercise in. That's the plan. Back on track. I've had my "vacation" from WW. Now I need to DO THIS. Not long till the wedding!

Family Meals and Off Plan

Last WI: 214.6/Last at Home WI: 214.8

TUESDAY

Ok, so I know when I'm not bloggin, I'm usually not on plan. I knew the 211.8 was too good to be true.

This week has been tough. Erik's parents have been in town since last Wednesday and boy do they cook. And I feel very rude not eating what they cook. For example - they are leaving today and had bought some sausage for breakfasts that they hadn't cooked, so Erik's dad decided to get up this morning and cook me breakfast. Very sweet notion, but I usually have a balance bar for breakfast - my 4 point moderation. But instead, this morning, I felt obligated to have sausage and toast - much more than 4 points I'm certain. Grrr.

But - they left today so at lesat my food challenges should reduce. I've just not been on top of it at all. My only saving grace has been exercise. I ran 6 miles on Saturday and did 90 minutes of cardio on the elliptical and bike on Sunday. Yesterday I took my "rest" day and today I plan to do at leat 4 miles on the treadmill, hopefully 6, but a minimum of 60 minutes cardio either way. I've got to get this under control or these next few months are going to fly by with no progress.

I only have 67 days until Holly's wedding. I had really hoped to be in Onderland by then. I still can, but I have got to kick it up. After this Thursday - which I'm still hoping for some kind of loss - I have 9 more WI's before the wedding. I've got 14.6 lbs to lose. I can do it. I just have to rededicate myself!

Today I'm leaving work about 1:00 for a dentist appointment. Then I'm headed to the gym for my work-out then I'm volunteering at the local fair. I've already had a big breakfast as noted above, and am supposed to be going to lunch for a collegue's birthday shortly - Need to make good decisions!

Here's to a good day!

Under 30 BMI!

Last WI: 214.6/At Home WI: 211.8 (wow!)

SATURDAY

Well, WI on Thursday was good if not great. I lost 0.8 lbs. I'm satisfied, even though I had hoped it'd be at least a pound. I was running around all day, however, and even though I did quit drinking/eating by 1:00 I think I might have retained some water. Whatever - the home scale keeps going down, and as long a the WW scale does to I'm ok.

Thursday night I totally didn't go out like I usually do since Erik's parents are in town. I did splurge a bit on dinner, but it wasn't totally out of the realm of where I should be. The scale showed a nice 213.4 yesterday morning. I was "ok" but not great. I had a lot of small meals, and definitely ended the day over in points. I didn't make it to the gym either because it was Erik's birthday and we had lots of family plans.

So this morning, seeing 211.8 was a shock. I'm certain it's not dehydration because I didn't drink alcohol yesterday and got lots of water in. Who knows - but I'll take it.

I "celebrated" by hitting the gym this morning and having an amazing run. I did 6.11 miles in 60 minutes, then walked another .5 miles in 10 minutes. That's almost a 10K in 60 minutes. Now, granted that's not a personal best, but it's definitely the best I've done in over a year. I'm finally getting my running fitness back.

In 2003/2004, I was in great shape and could run 6 miles 3-4 times a week at about 9 minute miles. I'm working back to that and it feels great. Today's run was long, but actually not that hard. I kicked up the speed in the end, but over all I'm so pleased with my fitness level.

Hopefully the recent drop on the scale is a reflexion of that fitness level and I'm finally boosting my metabolism.

Today I'm actually at work - on a SATURDAY. Totally unheard of with me on this job. Just a demonstration of exactly how busy I've been lately.

I'm still waiting to hear on the job I interviewed for last week. I got an email from my recruiter on Friday asking how it went and reminding me to do thank-you emails. I'd totally forgotten. So I sent an email to everyone I interviewed with last Friday. I didn't expect a response from any of them, but I got an email back from the "lateral hiring partner" that I interviewed with first on Friday. He said: "Thanks for the note. I really enjoyed meeting you. I am sure we will get back to you soon, and we appreciate you coming by to see us." Sounds promising, right? I'm very excited but really don't want to get my hopes up. This job would be a great opportunity and I really liked the people I met when I was there. *crossing fingers!!!*

Anyway - back to work. I'm trying not to eat much today but I'm starving it seems. I'm going to have to keep it in control so I can see a good loss this week!

A Week off of Bloggin

Last WI: 215.4/At Home WI: 213.2

THURSDAY

Ok, so I'm a slacker. Well, not a slacker, maybe, but not driven enough to blog. It's been crazy at work this last week and I just have barely gotten on the computer. We have a 2 week trial term starting October 15. I still have over 50 cases on the calendar, so I've been having a lot of meetings this last week with victims and witnesses. In fact I had one at 1:00 today and another at 3:00. It's exhausting but necessary. Then there's court hearings I've had 3 days this week so far. Fun fun.

So lots to catch up on - I'll start with last Thursday. WI was a disappointment. I stayed the same. Now I'm not officially complaining because it was not a gain. But having seen 214ish on the scale the day of WI and the day before, I had hoped to see at least a partial pound loss. Oh well - such is life.

Friday was my 2nd interview at the "big firm" in Atlanta. It think it went well. I met with 3 partners and about 5 associates from 9:30 -1:45, with lunch included. I had a good time and feel like it went good. I just don't know though. If I could give an objective opinion (which I can't really) I would guess that I should get the job. I'm qualified, didn't have any really awkward moments in the interviews, and feel like they were really recruiting me a bit. That said, I'm SO scared to get my hopes up. So I'm just chillin and hoping. I called the recruiting coordinator on Monday and she said I should hear within 2 weeks or so. I got the impression that the earliest I would hear would be this Friday. So obviously nothing so far, but it's early.

Last weekend I was mostly lazy. Friday night we went out to Y-knots to drink/play poker. Saturday I slept in, then hit the gym, then worked a show for a local casino company dealing black-jack. Sunday we went to church at a new church - my friend Holly's church - then went to lunch. I hit the gym in the afternoon and ran 6 miles!! Definitely a great accomplishment for me.

Monday was crazy at work, and we had poker at Holly's for our Monday night league. I got second in the poker tournament, so that was fun.

Tuesday I totally vegged out after a crazy day at work, and didn't even get to the gym. (slacker!)

Yesterday I hit the gym in the evening and did 4 miles plus 20+ minutes on the elliptical. Erik's parents also got into town and are staying with us for a week.

Food-wise, I haven't been too good this week. I've had way too much fast food. Grrr.. The good news is I've done some good work-outs to counter-act it, even if I did slack on Tuesday.

Well that's the short version. I'm very tired again today. Good thing it's a "rest" day considering it's WI day. I'm off to WI, get some grub, then probably be lazy the rest of the night. No partying tonight (as per usual Thursday night) because of our house guests.

I'm so not ready to have kids.

Last WI: 215.4/At home WI: 214.6

THURSDAY

Well, it's been a crazy couple days. Tuesday night Erik had Daniel, but he put him down about 9:00 and came to bed and crashed out. I turned the light off about midnight and went to sleep. About 2:00 am I woke up to find that Daniel had come downstairs and crawled into bed with us. Now this is the 3rd time in a week that he's done this and I let the other two slide for various reasons. This time I wasn't going to let it because I don't want this to become a habit. Now, Daniel's mother lets him sleep with her. I know this. She's a single mom and I think she enjoys having him close. That's fine and all for her, but I think it's a bad habit, that 4 year-olds should sleep in their own bed and Erik and I have agreed on this. So about 2:00 am, I got up, picked up Daniel and put him in his own bed. He immediately started crying saying he couldn't sleep by himself. I told him he needs to go to bed or he'd get a spanking. He went. For about 3 minutes. I'd gotten back into bed and just a minute later, he comes down the stairs again. This time I wake up Erik to help - it's his kid after all. So he does. And for the next 3 AND A HALF HOURS we fight with the kid. We put him down, he gets up. We threaten to take away privileges, he gets up. We take away the privileges, he gets up. We spank him, he gets up. Truly from 2:00 am til 5:30 am we fight with this kid. We don't know what else to do. Finally he crashes out, after much crying at 5:30. I'm still expecting him to come back down though so I can't get back to sleep. Finally after Erik gets up at 6:30 to take him to school and go to work, I get back to sleep - till 8:00 when I have to go to work. All in all - 3 1/2 hours sleep. Needless to say Wednesday sucked. And I am SO not ready to have kids.

I had appointments at 9:00, 9:30, and 1:00 that I had to keep. After that though I bailed out and went home to sleep from 3:00 till 6:00. At 6:30 Erik calls on his way home to say he wants to go out and play poker. The game starts at 8:30 and its 20 minutes from our house. I had planned to go to the gym. (15 minutes away). So I figured I'll do what I can. I changed and jumped in the car. I got to the gym at 7:00 did 15 minutes on the elliptical then headed home, showered and was ready to leave the house by 8:00. Not the best workout but at least I did something.

Yesterday morning (after the night from hell with Daniel) my scale showed 214.2. A shock - I guess I earned some APs going up and down the stairs all night. This morning it was a little up. Not too surprising. Although I was "ok" yesterday I did eat at the bar we went to last night. No alcohol - so that's something - but I did have a prime rib sandwich, small salad, and a cookie from a plate of them my friend ordered (bad girl - tempting me!).

I had thought I might have to settle for a "maintain" this week, but it looks like I might see a loss (finger's crossed). At the beginning of the week the goal was to hit 214.0 or lower, but now I'd just like to see as close to 214 as possible. I'll probably see something in the mid-214's. Not bad. Just have to kick butt this week.

Which shouldn't be hard. No big plans for the weekend. I'm planning on trying to get in 6 miles. We do not have Daniel so at least we'll get some sleep. :-)

Ran 5 Miles!

Last WI: 215.4/At Home WI: 215.8 (?)

TUESDAY

I've been bad. I'm not sure why. I got back from my mini vacation and have just not been able to get it together. Monday I couldn't get to the gym because of our poker game, and I ended up drinking a few beers last night at poker. So I'm not sure about this morning's WI. But who knows. Today I was ok until lunch (wow, huh?) when Holly asked me to go to lunch with her. We went to have pizza. I had two large slices, where I should have had only one (or a salad!). Boo.

Well, the good news is that I went to the gym after work and ran 5 Miles! That's right - first time I've done 5 miles in a very long time. It actually felt great. So that's good. I got home and Erik had made some shrimp and green beans for dinner. So that was good. I'm going to try not to eat any more tonight.

I don't know what's going to happen at WI. I guess I'm back to hoping for a maintain. I hate that. I've been doing so good. I totally should have had a loss this week if I'd just stuck to the plan. Oh well - all I can do now is remedy the problem. I'll work out tomorrow too, and hope for the best.

Weekend in Tennessee

Last WI: 215.4/At Home WI: 216.4

MONDAY

Well I survived the weekend. Of course I didn't get all the exercise in that I wanted, but I did get some. I flew on Friday morning. I landed about 10:00 am and was picked up by my sister-in-law. We went and saw my brother before going to my mom's house where I was staying. I ended up not running Friday - I guess I just got lazy and was tired from the flight. I watched my neice play in the high school marching band on Friday night and went to bed relatively early.

Saturday I woke up and went running right away. I had planned on trying to do as many miles as I could on the local high school track - which is very close to my mother's house - but the school track team was practicing and I didn't want to disturb them, so I ran around my mom's neighborhood. I did 20 minutes before I had to walk. I ended up running about 2 miles and walking about 1.5. Not the 5 I had hoped for, but it was extremely muggy and hot out and frankly I haven't run outside in a long while, so I'll take it.

Saturday night we had a birthday party for my brother. Mom made her famous manicotti and french bread. I only had one serving, but still probably too much. The good news is I did munch a lot on the fresh veggies I had cut up.

Saturday night after the party I was still feeling wide awake so I headed to the riverboat casino in Missouri - just about 20 minutes away. I ended up winning $400 at craps and another $40 or so at poker before I headed home a little after 3:00 am.

Sunday I slept in, of course, and totally didn't go running when I did get up. Slacker! I spent the day saying goodbyes to my dad, brother, mother, sister-in-law and neices and nephews. My brother drove me the 2 hour trip to the airport around 5:00 pm. I got home a little after 11:00 pm and crashed out pretty quickly.

All in all the weekend was wonderful, family-wise, but not great food wise. I didn't crazy indulge but I didn't track, and I only ran once. That's about normal for my family weekends though.

Today I'm playing catch up at work. I've got my interview on Friday so it's another short week. Work is completely crazy with trials just 5 weeks away. I'm starting to stress. But that's normal too.

Today I've been ok with food. I had a balance bar for breakfast, popcorn and a nectarine for snack, and subway for lunch. I've got 10 points left for dinner, and I'm not going to get to go to the gym today (as usual for Mondays). I have to hit the grocery store right after work, and get home before 6:30 for our Monday poker night that we're hosting. Now - I just need to make good choices for dinner/poker.

This week I'm worried about WI because of the weekend, and my attitude. I'm totally grumpy because of stress at work, and that is always a recipe for disaster. When I feel grumpy or tired, I don't care about making good choices, and usually fall off the wagon. I'm going to need to find a way to improve my mood so I can keep my good trend going.

Here's to keeping up a good thing...

Update - Still Losing

Update: WI: 215.4 (-1.4)

Well I lost 1.4 this week which I'll take. It's still got me going toward my goal of onderland by Holly's wedding (12/1). I need to average about 1.5 lbs/week. This week I needed to get under 215.5. Next week I need to see 214.

Still planning on kicking butt this weekend at mom's!

Beautiful Scale

Last WI: 216.8/At Home WI: 215.0 (YEAH!)

THURSDAY

Ok so Mr. Scale. I'm sorry I doubted you. I forgive you today. At least I will if WI goes as hoped. Yesterday was another very good day. I had subway for lunch, some snacks, and left over's for dinner - eating exactly 1 point over my target. I hit the gym after work and did 3 miles on the treadmill in 30:16 very good for me. I used to be able to consistently do 10 minute miles, but having taken so much time off I've been working back up to it. Yesterday's run averaged 10:05 minute miles - not bad. Running so much is obviously doing my body well. After the run, I walked for about 8 minutes cool-down then hit the elliptical for another 30 minutes. All in all I burnt over 1000 calories and counted 10 APs. So we're up to 36 APs for the month and over 40 for the WI week.

I'm at work now. I had chick-fil-a for breakfast and am now "fasting" till WI. I chugged about 50 oz of water this morning to be sure I'm hydrated, now I just hope that WI goes well. Then we'll see how tonight goes. I have a very bad habit if over-indulging the night of WI. It's my night to drink as Erik is driver, so I take that as an excuse to make very poor choices. Now I'm not willing to give up my "night" but I need to reduce the amount of alcohol and amount of bad food choices. I think that really will help my weekly results. That said, there's something to be said for a weekly "break" to keep my sanity throughout this weightloss journey. I don't know I'm going to have to think on it. I don't want to deprive myself such that I fall off the wagon, but I also want to see the best results I can.

This weekend is going to be a challenge. I fly out tomorrow morning to Tennessee to see my family. I'll be staying until Sunday evening with my mom. My dad and brother and his family (wife and 4 kids) also live in the same town, so I'll be seeing them all. It's my brother's birthday on Sunday and I think we're having a party on Saturday for it. All in all there will be an abundance of opportunities to make very bad choices. My father and brother are significantly over-weight. My mom is about average for her age, maybe a few pounds overweight, but my food life has always revolved around my dad and his habits. My mom cooked him what he wanted my entire life, and even though they have now split up (but are still friends) we all kind of get together to eat. A LOT.

So this weekend is going to be a challenge. I am going to try to counter-act it with smaller portions and "relatively" good choices. And RUNNING. I'm bringing my running gear and am going to run at my mom's. She lives in a great neighborhood that is actually close to a high school so I have some choices of neighborhood running or track running. Either way it'll be outside - something I haven't done lately and will be very good for me if I can commit to doing it. I PLAN to run at least 2 days, hopefully all 3. My schedule shows 3 miles on Friday, 5 on Saturday and 3 more on Sunday. Maybe if I go slow I can get it in. Not sure, but I'm going to try.

Anyway - here's hoping for a good WI tonight. I should get under 215.6 which would get me over 10 lbs lost - a good milestone. Anything more than that is gravy and I'll take it gladly.

Stupid Scale

Last WI: 216.8/At Home WI: 217.0 (BOO!)

WEDNESDAY

Well I was good yesterday considering the hang over. As I noted, I had a sub for lunch and went home planning on going to the gym. Well, I felt like crap so got Erik to agree to go later, after dinner and his Kiwanis meeting. I napped a bit then made some pasta for dinner. Erik finished his meeting at about 8:00 and we met at the gym. I was supposed to do 3 miles, but hung-over I have the hardest time running. I got 1 mile down and just felt like crap. My asthma was acting up as well, so I got off the treadmill, took a hit off the inhaler and jumped on the elliptical where I did 60 minutes in an effort to make up for my slackerness on the treadmill. Overall 70+ minutes of cardio and over 1000 calories burned.

So why was the scale only down to 217 this morning? Hell if I know. I have to hope that I still haven't re-hydrated from Monday's binge and that another good day will drop it down where it belongs. I have to hope.

So lots of water today. I've been relatively good food-wise. I've had a balance bar, a nectarine, some popcorn and subway for lunch. I have 11 points left for tonight which is plenty. I plan to go straight to the gym after work, and then home for an early night. Erik has Daniel so that shouldn't be a problem. A light dinner, and I'm (HOPEFULLY) set for a good WI tomorrow. If I don't lose this week, I'm going to be pissed. Yes, I over-indulged on both Friday and Monday, but so far this week I've already earned over 30 APs. Surely I didn't over-indulge more than 3000 calories?!? Did I?!?

I'm supposed to do speed work on the treadmill today but I might try to get in the 3 miles I was supposed to do yesterday instead. I think it's more fruitful - weight loss wise. Either way I will earn at least 5 APs tonight. Hopefully closer to 10.

On other notes, work has been crazy lately. I've taken over a caseload of an attorney who left a few months ago. He did all the sex crimes. So not only do I have my regular case-load of burglaries, robberies, and thefts. Now I have over a dozen child molestations. Not exactly easy cases. Our next trial calendar starts October 15th. I have 60 cases on the calendar, 12 of which are child molestations. What that ultimately means is that I'm going to be in trials for 2 weeks straight, probably trying child molestations and nothing else - cases that are very disturbing and frankly, often hard to win. Now I do have a couple really good cases where either the defendant admitted to the activity or there is DNA evidence to prove it. But most of the cases are a he said-she said battle where the kid says it happened and the defendant says it didn't. Unfortunately, those cases are hard to win, and the jury needs only have "reasonable doubt" to acquit. I hope to try one of the "good" cases first so that I can get a solid "win" under my belt before I try some of these harder ones. Confidence plays a big factor in trial skills, and in my non-sex crimes I feel really good. I've just never tried a sex-crime yet, and I have so much to learn. So - because of all this my weeks have been filled with meetings with victims and witnesses. Let me tell you how draining it is to talk to kids who have been molested all day. They are all adorable, sweet things that have to talk to me about horrible events in their lives. It just sucks. But it has to be done.

Anyway - I like my job, but it can be draining at times.

On other job news, I have a follow up interview at the "big firm" I interviewed with a couple weeks ago next Friday. It's an all day interview, so I'm taking the day off. Again, it boils down what I'm going to do if I actually manage to get an offer. I'm afraid I'm going to have to take it. I can always come back to prosecution, but getting my foot back into a big firm in the future is going to be hard. Who knows - I'm putting the cart before the horse here, so I'll just see how Friday goes. Meanwhile - child molestations, here I come. woo hoo!

Over-indulging

Last WI: 216.8/At Home WI: 217.6

TUESDAY

As you can see by this morning's scale reading - I went overboard yesterday. I knew I was going to and I really did nothing to stop or prevent it. Let's start with Sunday - my last "good" day. After the gym, I didn't leave the house. Erik went into work for a bit and I read/napped. When he got home we watched the netflix movies we had and ordered Chinese in. I was "ok" in that I order chicken chow mien - which is good - but also had two egg rolls - which is bad. All in all though it was still a very good day and I came in under points. I was rewarded yesterday with a scale reading of 215.8 - lowest yet.

Then yesterday came. Every year my best friend Holly and I have a party on labor day. The last few years, it's also coincided with the first FSU game. So this year we planned for a 2:00 start with drinks, snacks, and some craps. We then started a poker tournament at 7:00 and the football game started at 8:00. I was doing ok until the football came kicked off. I had been drinking some, but mixed in some non-alcoholic drinks as well. I wanted to see the game. Then the game came on....and we did HORRIBLY. I mean bad. And Holly started delivering jagger-bombs to me and others - I think to help dull the pain of my team playing so badly.

Ultimately I had to ask Erik the final score this morning. I knew we lost cause I had no memory of being happy at the end of the night, but I didn't know how bad. Turns out we sort of rallied in the second half and brought the score within 6 but couldn't close it out. We lost 24 to 18. :-(

So - I did end up doing well in the poker tournament at least. But, I drank too much - munched on snacks too much - and feel like crap today for it. Why do I DO this to myself?

So I'm at work, trying to wrap up the day. It's been rough. The day has DRAGGED by and I totally came in late. Erik called a while ago too and said he wants to go to the gym with me again tonight. Which is actually really a good thing because I need to go and feeling like I do would likely come up with a justification for not going. Having him want to go commits me to going. I need to. I'm scheduled to do 3 miles today and I really need to keep up the schedule if I want to lose this week.

I desperately hope that the scale gets back under 216 tomorrow. I was so happy to see the 215's - I'd hate to have ruined it all. Now I know I didn't gain 2lbs in one day, but I need to recover quickly as Thursday's approachin.

Today I've had a huge publix sub for lunch. I had bought it yesterday on the way to the party with the idea that I would eat that instead of junk food, but it didn't work. So I missed breakfast today and had it for lunch. I was more than I should have had though - it was a whole sub and at publix those are huge. I'm counting it at 18pts which is a LOT. I also just had a peach to try to get some fruit in for the day. Shortly I'll be leaving to head home and meet Erik for the gym. Dinner tonight will be something very light and I will desperately try not to eat any of the APs I earn.

Just in a foul mood today. I hate FSU losing the first game of the season. Booo! Grrrr. Grump grump.

Working Hard at This

Last WI: 216.8/At Home WI: 216.6

SUNDAY

Things are going well!!! Friday night I drove so Erik could drink. We went out to Y-Knots for poker and drinks. It was fun and we got home about 2:00 am. I had a philly cheesesteak for dinner, but I did get 2.5 miles in before going out. I definitely over-ate on Friday but I've been making it up since. Yesterday Erik went with me to the gym and I did 4 miles and felt great. My muscles were a little sore, but cardio-wise, I felt totally wonderful. We didn't get up till around 11:00 so we went right to the gym. We had dinner plans at about 5:00 so we just had some broccoli for a snack after the gym. We went to dinner at Applebee's and I had a WW meal, just substituting some mashed potatoes. The meal was supposed to be 10 pts, but I'm adding 2 for the "upgraded" potatoes. :-) I had some nuts and other snacks in the evening but came in under points for the day. Very good. We ended up staying out till 3:00 am again. :-)

So this morning, we slept late again and hit the gym together about noon. I did 60 minutes on the elliptical then came home to make a tuna sandwich for lunch. So - for today I've earned 9 APs and eaten 7 so far. Not bad. I plan to eat my target points today but no APs. Tomorrow will not be as good - Labor Day party planned! I know I'm going to go over points because I'm going to be drinking and celebrating FSU's kickoff game against Clemson. But I am going to hit the gym in the morning before the festivities kick off. I'll try to get in at least 5 APs to help counter-act the day's indulgences.

So the goal for the week is, ideally, to get my at home weight under 215 before Thursday, though frankly if I get it to 215.4 or lower, I should see my 1.5lb loss.

I CAN DO IT!