Day 170: Not Giving Up !

 

Today is day 170 of Nutrisystem 2.0 and I slept so much better last night ! I still didn't want to get up at 7 but that is probably because I was awake at 5:45 and opted to go back to sleep !

Breakfast was waffles with sugar free syrup. I didn't have a morning snack. Lunch was a chef salad & pepperoni pizza melt. Afternoon snack was cottage cheese & oatmeal cookies. Dinner was a bad decision and a waste of $23. I have been craving chinese food, so I walked to the local chinese place. Well, the food was crappy. I wanted won ton soup and they were out of won ton's ! What the heck kind of chinese restaurant "runs out" of won ton's on a Friday, no less ! I ended up ordering sweet & sour chicken AND General Tso's chicken. The sweet & sour chicken pieces were overcooked to the point there was zero moisture left. The General Tso's had NO sauce and was mostly breading with 4 pieces of broccoli ! The problem here is I absolutely loved the chinese at Turning Stone casino and I do miss that aspect of not going there. Needless to say, I won't spend another dime at that place. My evening snack was the remains of the vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. I'm not buying any more ice cream as I can't control portion sizes and I end up eating it every single day.

Shortly after noon today I realized I FEEL better ! I'm being more productive at work, I'm getting things done around the house AND I feel ready to get serious about losing the weight. I'm not buying any more pizza, hotdogs, ice cream or candy. I'm going back to 100% compliance with Nutrisystem. I may make one slight deviation, only because I have a serious craving for tacos ! The plan is to buy a small package of ground beef, a package of low carb tortillas, low fat cheese and low fat sour cream. I can have all the lettuce, jalapenos and salsa I want. I may cook extra ground beef and freeze it for later use. I was excited to see that Nutrisystem has french toast now ! I added 6 to my next order. They also have some of my non-frozen dinner favorites in stock so I ordered some ravioli with meat sauce, some rotini with meatballs and some chicken alfredo. My next order is scheduled for July 4.

Over the past couple of weeks I've dealt with the changes in my job and the reality that I may have to find a new job. Today I looked for some internal training course I can take to add some project management and data analytics knowledge to my resume. No reason not to take advantage of all the free courses AT&T offers, especially since I can easily say they are related to my job and do them on company time.

I've also found that being active/busy helps keep my mind off eating ! Since I'm off next week I plan to focus on one room each day and get some cleaning done. I really want to shampoo the carpet and scrub the vinyl floors, so that's going to be a priority. Today during my lunch I went out in the workshop to do some work. There were 2 large plastic tubs out there that I wanted to keep and it took some work but I was able to retrieve them. They were kind of holding up the roof .. lol ! Turns out they had stinky water in them so I dumped that and then took them out to the driveway and scrubbed them. It took some work to get them apart. I ended up squeezing the hose between the two of them and putting a bunch of water in the bottom one. That helped loosen the seal and with a little patience I was able to get them apart. After work (at 7 pm) I went out in the garage for a little bit and started a new bag of junk. All the tools and tool boxes that Alex bought are still out there and I will never use them, so I'm going to start tossing all that stuff. There's still more I can do so I'll probably spend some time out there this weekend. 

Around 8 pm we had a little bit of light rain. The week ahead looks to be rainy every day, so I'm glad I got the lawn mowed and the weeds trimmed. We may get a little more rain around midnight but it's supposed to be out of here by tomorrow afternoon and Sunday looks to be dry.