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Monday, August 18, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014


8/18

Today was just a normal Monday.  I got up and played Happy Homemaker, doing the dishes from the weekend and a load of laundry (towels), as well as my usual playing on the pute.  Luckily, there weren't many dishes and it didn't take very long.
For my lunch, I had one of Ron's sausage, egg and cheese croissants (I know, I'm bad) and it wasn't half bad.  I prefer either biscuits or muffins, but it was okay.
Later in the afternoon, when I got up again, I did my exercises, raising my strength training reps up to 15, then got hamburger out of the freezer so we could have hamburger helper for supper, and played on the pute some more.  Josh stopped on his way home from work to pick up some stuff I had for him, and he gave me a Bengals license plate that someone at his work had given him.
When Ron got home around 5:30, we went out to get my car dolled up with my new magnets, stickers, and the license plate Josh just dropped off.  It didn't really take very long, and I came back in to start supper, and he stayed outside, doing God-knows-what.  He didn't come in until supper was just about done, so I have no idea what he did, but he piddled around out there instead of his usual watching the news with his eyes closed.  I guess that's a good thing!
We ate supper, then that was it for the night.  I stayed in the bedroom, and he did his thing watching TV through his eyelids.  I came out a little after 9 to do my thing on the pute for the night, and after putting things in MFP, I was over on my calories, so no snack for me tonight.  I also noticed that, somehow, somewhere, along the way, my calorie count went to, or was set to, 1320 and not 1200 like I set it, and I'm not sure how or when.  I fixed it, putting it back to 1200 (again!) and I think this is why I was over.  Makes me wonder when this happened, but I didn't feel like looking back to find out.  But I guess that's why MFP has been hollering at me so much.  If it had been at 1200, it wouldn't have been hollering at me!

So, no snack.  I took a sleeping pill and went to bed.



8/19

I woke up this morning right around 10:30, and damn, did I sleep good last night!  I guess I needed it, but geez...
I got up, put away the dishes from yesterday, and folded and put away the towels, too.  Ugh - this Happy Homemaker stuff is for the birds!  I did my usual playing on the pute, too, and when it came to be lunchtime, I went out to the freezer to find something.  Why?  I don't know, but I did.  I brought in 2 packages of sausage biscuits and chicken breasts to put in the crockpot (with a can of chicken stock, a can of mushroom soup, and a packet of Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning) for supper tonight.  I zapped my biscuits and had those.  Well, had two big biscuits with double meat as I do.
Later in the afternoon, I got up and did my exercises and played on the pute some more.  Then I took a shower and got my clothes ready to go to my TOPS meeting tonight.  Ron doesn't get home until 20 after 6, so I just get to see him for about 10 or 15 minutes, then I have to leave for my meeting.  We discuss him making the rest of supper, and I leave.

I weigh in, and I have gained just over a pound (1.2) once again.  What the hell?  I am tired of this crap!!  I have heard of being on a plateau, but this up, down, up, down over the same numbers is getting ridiculous.  I am going to have to make some serious changes!  I sure don't want to go back to my 'diet' right after the fall, but that's when I lost the most weight the quickest.  Maybe I could try that for a week or so.......maybe.  I think I like to eat too much, though, and it won't work now.  Damn, damn, damn!

I get back home, and Ron has supper done.  Chicken breasts and buttered noodles.  Yum.  I even ate sitting at the pute tonight!  I haven't done that in a long, long time.  It's much easier to eat (from a plate or a bowl) while laying in bed, on my stomach, than trying to stay sitting up.  But since I had just got home, my back still felt okay, so I did this.
I put my food in MFP, and I had plenty of calories left, so I put popcorn and milk in as a snack, and I'll make those when I go to bed, which will be as soon as I am done here.  MFP still hollered at me!  Geez!  How can I still be gaining weight, when I am eating so few calories, because I only get credit for 90 calories from my exercise.  Strength training doesn't count for calories - I'm not sure why - only cardio counts, so only my marching in place counts, and I only do that for 5 minutes.  Ugh.  I'm not sure I like this battle any more.