Day 62: And So It Begins

 





Day 62 of Nutrisystem 2.0 did not start as planned. I went to bed all fired up last night. I reset my weekday alarm to 6 am and I was going to get up early and work out ! Well, that didn't happen. I went to bed later than planned. I took a shower so that delayed settling in to bed. Then I didn't get to sleep until well after midnight, thanks to a brief internet outage that interrupted my tv viewing around midnight ! It was only out for maybe 5 minutes. I titled this blog "and so it begins" because I found myself on the scale first thing this morning. I've always said I don't want to be a daily weigher and these days I'm leaning towards monthly. Today the scale read 235 and that made me happy. I suspect that laying off the salt has helped. One more pound and I will have earned back my 70 pound bear and can move on to earning the 80 pound one.


Breakfast was 160 calorie buttermilk waffles with sugar free syrup and an 80 calorie yogurt. Morning snack was a 120 calorie vanilla shake. Lunch was roasted carrots and a 220 calorie pepperoni pizza melt. Afternoon snack was 200 calorie cheese & crackers. I have ONE serving of the maple & bacon cheese left, so I can switch back to cottage cheese and oatmeal cookies on Wednesday. Woo hoo ! Dinner was the rest of the roasted carrots (wow, they went fast !) and a 250 calorie meatloaf sandwich. Evening snack was a 140 calorie lemon zest cake. I haven't had these in a while so it was a nice change. Total calories for the day are 1170.


First workout of the day was 36m5s in Namibia. This was an endurance walk and the pace was 2.8 mph. After work was 37m50s in Namibia. This was a recovery walk with a pace of 2.5 mph. I figured if I was going to be on the treadmill for almost 38 minutes I was going to work a little harder, so at 36 minutes to go I bumped the speed up the 2.6 mph. At 24 I went to 2.7, then 2.8 at 12 to go. I put 86 minutes on the treadmill today and that is a new record for 2023. It might be a record for 2022 and 2021 as well !


Work was not as productive as I planned and I pretty much feel like I didn't get anything done. Some of the corrections I had submitted were screwed up by other departments and I spent a long time working on that and trying to get them to understand where they went wrong. I also took on 9 more projects because I can never say no, lol ! I worked an hour of OT tonight and I'm planning on working tomorrow night too, unless I have a super productive day tomorrow. I have a lot of things that are ready to move forward so I will not be bored this week !


I have a dish of Reese's eggs sitting on my desk in my office and as tempting as they are I didn't touch them today. I haven't touched the Hershey Kisses and I haven't opened the other package of caramels. I guess Friday nights binge got that out of my system for a while. It's probably a good thing since I have over 6 pounds of candy headed my way. I'm going to challenge myself to make all this stuff last as long as possible. I'll need to count how many caramels are in a jar and then decide how long I want them to last. I do plan to put 2 jars in the freezer. If I don't have space I may have to bag them and then freeze them. I've switched up some of my Nutrisystem selections to non-boxed items so they're taking up less room in the freezer, so I might be ok. 


Today has been a good day. I think the jolt I got when I weighed myself this past weekend was good for me. Does it mean that the road ahead will be smooth sailing ? Well, I'd like to think so but the realist in me knows that I will fall down again. If I want chocolate I'm going to have it. I know that denying myself is the reason I binged Friday night. I still remember how good that first caramel tasted. It's hard to describe the feeling. It was such a relief to have it. It sounds crazy to me and it makes me wonder if an alcoholic or drug addict has the same feeling of relief when they have that drink or get that high. I suspect the feeling is the same and that's pretty scary. I guess chocolate is my drug of choice. 


On that note, I'm taking myself off to bed !





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 16: Finality

Image
  Day 16 of Nutrisystem 2.0 wasn't a day to brag about. For starters, I did not use the treadmill at all. I can excuse myself for lunchtime, because I used that time to unpack my Nutrisystem order and reorganize the freezer so that everything fit. It just barely fit, so I need to make sure I delay my next order. I have about 2 months worth of lunch, dinner and snacks. The only thing I would run short on is breakfast, but I can sub in the Jimmy Dean sandwiches or oatmeal. I also used a fair amount of time to cut up a salad. I say I can excuse myself for missing the treadmill at lunch because I didn't spend that hour sitting on my ass. After work, well - that's a different story. I got word that the sale of my mom's house is now final. My parent's moved in to that house when I was 4 months old and lived there until their deaths. So this was our family home, the only home we knew until we each went out on our own. I could easily have bought the house but it's a lot...
Read more

Good Riddance 2023

Image
  It's the last day of 2023 and I can't say I'm not happy to see it go. The year was not all bad but the bad seems to outweigh the good.  The bad: spending 2 months thinking I was going to lose my job. I naively thought finding a new job with comparable benefits would be easy but I quickly found that my lack of a college degree and lack of any professional certifications pretty much puts me at the bottom of any pile. My "resume" was crap and my interview skills were woefully inadequate. Fortunately for me, that 2 month scramble was all for nothing. I emerged with my job and a requirement to go to the Rochester office once a month. A deal with Chuck to do the driving in exchange for me contributing to gas ($25 per month) made it an easy ask for me. It's nice to be able to chat with Chuck in person during the 90 minute drive each way, so there is an upside there ! The good: getting the vinyl siding & new garage door done. Thanks to my inheritance from mom th...
Read more

Day 26:

Image
  Day 26 of Nutrisystem 2.0. I feel like I'm settling back into the reality of eating less and exercising more. These are the 2 keys to successful weight loss, no matter what diet or program you may be following. I'm really regretting the 1+ year that I veered off course and let food take over my life again. Honestly, I have no idea why it happened. It's not like life was bad - I wasn't eating for comfort until recently. I guess I just didn't care what I was doing to myself. Sweets are my biggest problem and I am reminded of that every evening when I have my snack before bed. The blast of sweetness from a chocolate cupcake or an ice cream sandwich makes me immediately want more and this is part of the reason having candy in the house is not a good idea for me. A couple of pieces once in a while becomes a handful and then it's all over. I have to eat it until it's gone and make sure I buy more so that I don't run out. Last night I had the same "urge...
Read more