I'm relaxing after the Blue Jackets game. The good, we won 4-0. The evil, I ate chili cheese fries at the game. The purgatory, I ate a Weight Watchers ice cream bar when I got home. :/
Talked to my neighbor for a bit tonight. Actually I think that's the first time I've said more than "hello" to her in the year and a half I've lived here. The two girls are moving out this weekend. She's packing her car and driving to Arizona to sleep in a tent and help build houses. Oh to be young and not tied down to responsibility. I won't miss the smell of pot coming from their side in my basement. But I'm not particularly thrilled about having new neighbors, especially if they have kids. I kind of dislike children. I think we're going to revisit the idea of finding a new home. It's just so hard to get motivated about moving in the winter.
Last week ended up being better than expected. I had a tough time with my eating because of my period but I managed to lose some weight. I've now lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks, which Weight Watchers has told me is an unhealthy pace. Obviously that 8 pounds in the first week won't happen again so I'm not worried about it.
I didn't exercise very much. I walked on my lunch break at work 3 days. I also climbed 8 flights of stairs twice. I tried the Kinect one night. I need to rearrange my living room to continue exercising with the Kinect. Since I'm so lazy... that hasn't happened yet. I definitely need to get more exercising in.
I didn't pick up my Kindle until Sunday. :/ I like reading. I don't know why it's so hard for me to make the time for it. I seem to have plenty of time to shove food in my mouth, to waste time on the internet (and that's even without being on FB), to watch TV and play video games. I don't know. My goal is still 1 book a month so we'll see.
Things I learned:
1. I can survive without red meat. I've had a total of 2 servings of red meat in the past 2 weeks and guess what, I'm still alive. This is really epic for me because I had been eating at least 1, possibly 2, servings of red meat a day. A day!
2. I don't feel skinny after losing 10 lbs but I should still view it as an accomplishment and be proud of myself.
3. The WW's plan I'm doing gives you 49 extra points a week. I'm not a use 7 points a day kind of girl. I'm a use all 49 points in one day kind of girl. The mistake I made last week was I used all 49 points early in the week on Tuesday. That made it impossible for me to go the rest of the week without going over points. If I'm going to continue the trend of using all the points in one day then I need to do it at the end of my weeks, so Friday or Saturday.
Goals for this week:
1. Focus on drinking (water, diet soda, anything except regular soda and booze). I don't drink enough. I never have. WW's has a 5 drink a day goal and I haven't come close to hitting it since I started.
2. Exercise. 30 minutes a day. Doing anything. Walking the stairs. Taking a stroll around the block. Even fucking playing tennis on the Wii. Just get some activity Laura!!
3. Stop weighing myself 10 times a day. Ever since I bought the scale I can't stay off it. I weigh before and after I pee in the morning. I weigh completely naked, with a sweater and boots on, when I get home from work, after I eat dinner, before I go to bed... I'm always getting on the scale. Even though I know it doesn't mean anything, the constant fluctuation in my weight in a day makes me moody. I don't think weighing myself once a week is a feasible option for me. I'm going to go with cutting it down to once or twice a day. That's it.
