This road seems to get longer and longer...

Tuesday, July 29, 2014


I wasn't feeling real good today.  Not bad, just not real good.  I did get up and piddle around the house here a little bit, and that helped me feel a little better, as did playing on the pute.  I guess I am just feeling the effects of just "laying around in bed" so much - I feel so displaced in the world, and I'm not liking it very much, but there's not really a lot I can do about it quite yet.  I can't walk for exercise (yet), I can't do my Wii Fit (yet), I can't even do all the 'other' exercises I used to do (yet), but I do the ones I can, but I am yo-yo-ing with my weight, and that makes me feel not-very-good, too.  Ugh!  It's just not enough!  I'm really too chickenshit to push myself too much more, though!  What's a kid sposta to?
For my lunch, I had another of those sausage, egg and cheese muffins.  Those are pretty tasty, but I have to back off, because the box only has 4 in it, and now it's half gone!
The second time I got up today, I did my marching in place and my bicep curls, and I added a new exercise - I laid down, knees bent, then lifted my knees up to my chest (as close as I could), 5 times each.  Left leg had no problem, but each time I did the right leg, my back - my lower back - popped.  I felt and heard it.  It didn't hurt, so I continued, but I worried about it.  When I was done, my back felt okay, and has felt okay all day, so I guess I will continue with this new exercise.  I guess my back just didn't want to go that way at first.

I went out to the freezer and got out pork chops for our supper tonight, as well as 4 mini corn-on-the-cob.  We might as well have a good supper!  I already figure I'm gonna have a bad weigh-in, so I'll console myself with a good supper.  I'll also let Ron choose if we'll have macaroni & cheese or some kind of potato.  He can 'donate' something to the meal, right?  I am driving myself uptown tonight, but not staying for the meeting, so he can have supper cooking when I get back.  Driving myself - I am sooo ready!  He can be the nervous wreck for a change.
When he gets home, around quarter til 6, I go take my shower, after explaining supper to him, and when I am done, he is sleeping in his recliner.  I write him a note, set the alarm on his cell phone, and go to leave, and he wakes up.  So I have to re-explain everything to him.  Men!

I get up to my TOPS weigh-in, and, happily, I have LOST 2 pounds!  I don't know how, I thought for sure I was going to have gained this week, but I am so glad it's a loss!  I come back home, and he has supper started, but not the starch.  I tell him that he must get it started with everything else, or everything else will be done, and this won't be done, and he grudgingly starts the macaroni & cheese, muttering under his breath the whole time.  Then he comes in the living room to do his weigh-in on the Wii.  (He gained.)  When he was done, I went ahead and did mine, just because it had said on Sunday morning that I had gained (did I tell you that?  That I had gained almost a pound...), and now, on Tuesday night, the TOPS scale said I had lost, and I wanted to compare.  Sure enough, according to the Wii, I had lost!  Not quite half a pound, but, yes, a loss!  Cool!  (My Wii weighs me less than the TOPS scale, remember.)  I am a happy camper now, and I will still enjoy my supper!

While laying in bed during the evening, I had a nice long talk on the phone with my friend Bert - over an hour long! - and then I came back out here to do my MFP and my blog.  I made it, including a bedtime snack, with 6 calories to spare!  And, yes, I remembered the butter that I put on my corn!  6!  Whew!

Nighty-night, all!  I am getting my snack (an ice cream bar, formerly called Eskimo Pie) and going to bed.  I am committing to doing my exercises every day now, not just every other day, so I will enjoy this snack and I will (not) enjoy working it back off tomorrow!