A nice bright sunshiny day - and I took a walk!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

I woke this morning before 10.  That was kinda cool.  I haven't done that in quite awhile, not without the alarm, and it was a good feeling to do so.  It also meant that I slept really, really good, because I didn't go to sleep until after 2 this morning, so it was super awesome to me.
I got up, played Happy Homemaker, which took me quite a while - I hadn't done these tasks yesterday, and boy, had they built up over the weekend.  I couldn't even do all the dishes, there were so many.  I did most of them, leaving some of the bowls and some of the pans, and I'll finish them tomorrow.  There will be all of today's dishes to add to what was left, but they won't sit all week.

I finally get my lunch (chicken salad and walnuts) and get on the pute around 2:30, and got all caught up.  I decided that, since it was nice, I would walk to meet Ron (well, try to...) and enjoy some of this beautiful sunshine.  Besides, my TOPS meeting is tonight and after gaining three pounds for the Biggest Loser weigh-in on Saturday morning, I'm a bit worried about tonight's weigh-in.  A walk won't hurt, right?  Even if it is the first "real" walk of the year...

So, about quarter after five, I go get dressed enough to walk down Hoover Road so I can come home and get undressed and take a shower to go to my meeting.  That's how it sounded in my brain, but my brain was trying to talk me out of it, and I didn't let it!!  I got together my chair, my book, and my drink (in case I had to wait for Ron) and took off.  I had gone not quite 1/4 of a mile when I got the text from Ron that he was on 774, so that was pretty good timing!  I kept on, going around the curves, and my head had just crested the small hill when I saw him turn onto Hoover at the other end.  So, by the time he reached me, I had walked just over half a mile, and my hip wasn't hurting at all.  I was very glad about that, but I was also very glad for the ride back home, too.

I got home, got my shower and changed for my meeting.  I'm always glad I get to see Ron for a few minutes before I leave, but when I got out of the bedroom, dressed to go, he was asleep in his recliner already.  So, it really was just "see" him today.  I kinda hated waking him up to kiss him goodbye, but I did anyway.

At the meeting, I got four quarters ready (we pay a quarter for each pound we've gained since the week before) before my weigh-in - besides, it got them out out of my pocket!  To my great surprise, I actually LOST some weight!  Not quite a pound, but a loss nonetheless.  Yay, me!  Guess that walk did some good, after all!  Oh, I was so happy!  Back on track to hitting that personal goal, yes!  I can't wait to hit that goal so I get on to the SUPER personal goal that is next!!!

When I got home, Ron had already eaten his supper (a frozen Chinese thing), so I had to find me some supper.  I finally made a can of potato soup and zapped the leftover meatloaf to get rid of it.  Wasn't quite what I wanted, but I didn't know what I wanted, so this is what I chose.  I can live with this.

I put my food, such as it was, and my exercise (a WalMart Walk is 1/2 mile, so I put that in) into MFP, and I was over 600 calories short for the day!!  Well, that will never do, so I put in for a bag of popcorn and milk for a snack, even though it's 10:30 at night, and then I went and made it.  It put me under 500 calories short for the day, and MFP still hollered at me, but now I don't think I'll have a sugar low overnight.  At least I won't worry about it, like I would have at 600+ calories short, even though I didn't eat supper until 8:30.

Like I need something else to worry about, right?