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hey hey hey, did you miss me? ;) My computer is back up, thanks to a new power cord. I have not been losing very quickly lately. Must be because I am not on fatsecret. :) I also think I may have been eating too many carbs. I was a member of a community supported agriculture group where I got local produce delivered to my neighborhood weekly. In some ways I loved it but I also have to say that I am relieved that the season is over. I did not get a choice in what produce was delivered to me so there was a lot of conflicting iinterests between what my body has been telling me I should eat and what I felt I should use up. Actually, I still have that problem-- tons and tons of beets and potatoes left still. And trying to use up food in the house in general before I buy more, for financial reasons. I will try to prepare the beets and potatoes for freezing before I go on vacation, and then I can start buying more of the lower carb vegs that I notmally eat, supplementing my diet from my freezer. I also started listening to an Atkins super-quick-intro book on tape. I am not feeling dedicated enough to read the book and yet I feel it would benefit me to know a little more about this approach, although I do understand the basics of it.
Ohmigosh, I had the worst day Saturday! I am over it, so not asking for sympathy anymore, but I still can't believe what happened. I went out to a dance club with a friend and her boyfriend. They were both drinking a lot and there was a man there who kept offering all of us women to drink from a drink that he himself was not drinking from. So as a preface we think that my friend's boyfriend may have possibly had his drink drugged by this man, who may have thought it belonged to my very attractive friend. Anyway, that is what we LIKE to think, for the sake of everyone's view of the character of the noyfriend.
My friend's boyfriend was holding my keys for me. I have a mace keychain. He got extra, extra drunk and started acting like a tremendous jerk. My friend was harmlessly dancing (in a very nonsexual way) with another man, and he flew into a jealous rage and decided that he would mace the man. I tried to stop him and he accidentally maced me instead. Wow, that hurts. Try to avoid it. Keep your mace keychains tightly in your own hands, ladies! Lesson learned. Thankfully he was pointing it in the wrong direction but it still hurt A LOT. Then the boyfriend got beat up by the man and his friends (until I screamed, stop! stop! you are going to accidentally hurt my friend!) and we all got his blood all over us. He took off and I had to take care of my drunk, sobbing friend for most of the night. 3 hours of sleep. No focus left for food choices. I think THAT is a good excuse for not losing in recent days, too! Just so you don't think I hang around with the wrong people all the time, stuff like this NEVER happens to me. I had a dream that somebody called me with some huge, petty drama, and I said, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number. I don't have this kind of drama in my life." That is what it feels like, to me and to my friend. For at least a while, I am swearing off dance clubs, and anywhere where alcohol or that boyfriend will be. That can only help my weight loss, anyway, am I right?
Boy, info and Sara, you were right about going too crazy on the pants. Not that I went crazy or anything, but some pants I picked out on my birthday three weeks ago are already too big. I had been waiting to fit nicely into a 14 and I didn't realize that I had zoomed past that and into a 12 so quickly. I still have a ways to go though. I saw some absolutely horrendous pictures of me that reminded me of that recently. Of course, they happened the day after the mace incident, so that was part of it. Still, I am surprised that my neck still looks so fat to me. At least, however, necklaces fit again, rings have been moved backed to their original fingers, and I no longer have to look for the biggest size in the (non-plus) department, or visit the plus department at all. Rome wasn't built in a day, you know. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. :)
Wow, I had a lot to say today! I really want to go for a walk now, but I'll be back soon to check on your journals... I am looking forward to seeing how everyone has been doing! Then, soon after that, vacation for me! Today is my last day at work, and tomorrow is packing.
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