Weigh-In 12/30/08

Holy Moly am I a lucky girl.  I only gained 1.5 pounds this week, which is absolutely stunning considering the amount of crap I ate over the holiday weekend.  I mean, seriously, if it was edible and wasn’t glued down, it went into my mouth.  And since there wasn’t anything edible in my presence that was glued down, that means I pretty much ate everything that was edible in my line of sight. 

I hope everyone had a happy holiday.  Mine was fairly decent.  I think the change in my sleep schedule, an increase in medication, and the additional sugar created a situation in which I felt like I was borderline comatose for most of the weekend.  I did get quite a bit of sleep, which I probably really needed though I’m still feeling fairly sleepy.  I’ve felt a little down since Christmas, but my parents were in kind of weird moods, too, so we may have just been missing my brother.

I have no excuse for what I ate and how much I ate.  I don’t think there was any profound reason for it.  I just ate it and am moving on.  My goal for the holidays was to stay between 185 and 195 and since I’m at 190.7, I’ve done that.  I know things will go a bit crazy this weekend again, but I’m trying to get myself back in the swing of counting again.  I might not be counting everything or writing it all down (as I know that I absolutely need to), but I’ve started looking at food as points again and that’s a step in the right direction.  When I was at my peak on WW, I didn’t see two pieces of my favorite bread, I saw one point.  I didn’t see a banana, I saw two points, etc.  I need to get back to that place and will.

I had a rather interesting experience at K-Mart on Christmas Eve.  I had run to the store to see about getting my parents something small for their stockings and pick up some new PJ’s for myself – they had a great sale – and while I was digging through the pile, I noticed two men standing near me that seemed to be having a debate.  One seemed to be the dad of the other and ended up saying “Excuse me,” and asked me whether I thought that what he was holding was PJ’s or a robe.  Right about that time, the son said, “Hey look, Dad, it says PJ’s right here.”  The dad said thanks anyway and I didn’t think anything of it.  A few minutes later, they seemed to be having another debate and at that moment I just happened to walk over to the side of the display that they were standing on.  Lucky me.  SO THEN, the dad proceeds to ask me what size I wear!!  Uh-huh!  No joke!  I was surprised that I actually answered and told him I wear about a L/XL.  So then he proceeds to thank me and tell his son that his mom probably wears a medium then.  Uh-huh.  I think this situation shows how much my attitude has changed because I found the whole thing thoroughly amusing.  Before, I probably would have been traumatized.  It was actually kind of cute how they were trying to find something that the woman they both love would like.

On Saturday, my mom and I went for a walk at our favorite place.  It was really peaceful and just what I needed.  Now that the weather has been behaving itself fairly decently, I’m going to try to start walking more.  Hopefully the weather will hold.  I think I’ll start New Year’s Day off by going for a hike.  Get the year started in the right direction.

Other than that, and some errand-running, I didn’t do a whole lot.  I mostly slept, read, ate, and played games with my mom.  Real exciting life I lead, huh?  I was given several books for Christmas and had already read three of them (about 350 pages each) by Monday morning.  I can’t help it.  I’m an addict.   (“Hi, my name is Pamela, and I’m a book addict.”)  I’ve also recently become completely addicted to Pogo.com’s Canasta game, so I bought a deck of Canasta cards and taught my mom how to play.  The only set of Canasta cards I could find at Wal-Mart have slightly different rules than the original game, but it was close enough.  We also played Scrabble, Sequence, and Phase 10.  I adore board games and card games, but I don’t know why I continue to play Phase 10 with my mom.  The woman kicks my ass every single time.

I got quite a few things for Christmas that I wanted – almost everything in fact.  Lots of books, a new Wii game (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess), and even a heartrate monitor that I can’t wait to try out!

Work has been decent the past couple of days.  Pretty quiet overall.  Hopefully it will stay that way through tomorrow.  I have Thursday and Friday off again this week.  WHOOHOO!  I also found out that we get to leave two hours early tomorrow and that we will also get bonuses tomorrow.  Tomorrow will be a good day!

A personal note to Christy:  Thank you so much for your comments, but I was so sorry to hear about your mom and can’t imagine how difficult the past couple of months have been for you and your family.  My heart goes out to you and wanted to let you know that you are in my thoughts.  Feel free to contact me at the link above anytime.  Take care.