Getting Ready to Leave Day...and then TOPS

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Today was bustle, bustle, bustle.  I woke up around 9:30, and laid in bed reading, finally getting up just past 10.  I jumped right into the fun of my last full day here at home, getting everything ready for me to leave tomorrow. The last load of laundry, all the dishes done (today, anyway), the last of my clothes packed, a last run uptown - to the post office and the bank (I rolled up the quarters and the dimes!  WhooHoo, 25 more bucks in my pocket!), do this, that and the other, on and on and on all day long.  I did stop long enough to eat my lunch - my chicken salad, the last of the bag of walnuts, and a banana - around 1:30.  I did get on the pute, also, and get my games all caught up.  I'm not sure when, over the next few days, I'll be able to do that again.  One of the others with me in Gatlinburg will have a laptop, but, we'll see.  I just kept going and going today, getting the house and me ready.   But, finally, at 4, I felt that I was done enough that I could stop and take a shower and just relax until time to go to my TOPS meeting.  I have most everything crossed off of my list of things to do!  Yay!

At my TOPS meeting, I was not the biggest loser of the week, even though I lost FOUR pounds.  The loser of the week lost nine pounds this past week, but I am happy with the four pound loss, let me tell you.  FOUR!!   I guess that damn exercise bike has its uses, huh?
I got home from the meeting, and Ron had made Manwich for supper, so I had some Manwich on one slice of bread with some pretzels for my supper.  Then, I was still hungry, so I had a nut bar, and then a piece of the apple pie I had made for Ron with the end of the apples his cousin had given us.  It was darn good!

When I put all this food into myfitnesspal, I was still 400+ calories short for the day, and I hadn't even done any exercise worth mentioning!  Just walking and walking all over the house, but I didn't claim that as exercise on myfitnesspal, although I certainly could have, I didn't.  I couldn't believe that I was that much short, I just couldn't.  I racked my brain, but that was really all I ate.  My lunch and my supper.  The two snack-ish desserts.  That was it.  Hmmmmm.   Weird.   Maybe I need to lower my calorie count somehow.  I'll have to check that out when I get back.

Thus, today is getting five stars for food, and zero for exercise.

I don't know if I'll get to write my blogs the next few days or not.  If not, I'll catch up when I get back.  It will be a very fun few days for me, and I'll be thinking of you all.  Take care.