Challenging

As you can probably tell from my more frequent posts, I'm trying to use this blog to keep myself accountable for my health. I still have not yet made it to the gym, but I didn't really expect to get there this weekend. I have a personal trainer session set on Tuesday, and I'm going to try to go to Zumba on Monday night also. Christen had his training session on Monday, so I'm going to see if I can drop the baby off before my class and he can pick him up after his workout. I've never been to Zumba, but I heard it was fun.

Yesterday was a challenging food day. I made blueberry muffins, and I had two small ones with fat-free organic milk for breakfast. I had a babybel cheese wheel for a snack, and then Christen seriously wanted wings for lunch but on our way out the door to Winghouse, my friend Justin called about having dinner at Winghouse before he goes back from leave (Navy, he's deployed to Iraq in February, but he has to do survival training in SanDiego before and admin stuff in Hawaii before he gets there, so he was leaving today). So we had lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings. I was a very good girl. I had grilled chicken strips that I dipped in hot sauce so I didn't really use very much. Their spicy garlic sauce is pretty damn good. We came home and finished the yardwork out front except for a couple small areas on the side of the garage that need some heavy duty weeding (next weekend). It was super hard work but very rewarding. I hate yardwork. I can honestly say that I'd rather clean toilets than do yardwork. But the end product was definitely worth it. We cleaned up and went to Winghouse with Justin, Tim, Katie and Charlie and Charlie's parents, and had a lot of fun! There was nothing diet-related that I could eat, but I had 10 skinless wings and water. No beer, even! To tell you the truth, I didn't even feel like beer. I was still hungry when we left, but I came home and had a stalk of celery with peanut butter for a snack.

This morning I had an orange and yogurt for breakfast with water. I'm trying with the water. Have I ever mentioned that I hate water? People keep saying that if I drink it enough, I'll crave it. Still waiting for that to happen. We went to Target and got some workout clothes for both of us, and then to Publix for groceries -- almost all we got was lunchmeat and a crapload of veggies, yogurt, and fat-free cream cheese for a change on my celery. We came home and had lunch; I made turkey and muenster cheese sandwiches and I had a tangerine and a mini-Babybel cheese with mine. Christen had Baked Lays. Chips are not one of my weaknesses, so I don't mind that he has continued to eat them. I could care less if they're there; I'm not eating them.

Christen fell asleep in the chair after lunch and I messed around online for awhile, and once I started thinking about food again I went outside to start working on the garage. Man, it's hot out there! Is it really January? The other day I was trying to decide if it was safe to eat oysters because it feels like summer! Christen woke up to help me out and we got a lot sorted through and even more in the attic, and I relisted our couch on Craigslist. Things are looking much better, I must say. I baked a sun-dried tomato marinated pork tenderloin for dinner and served it with summer squash and zucchini, and thin sliced potatoes and water. Probably not the absolute best for us, but certainly better than some things I could make, and I was very good on my portions which is a big part of the battle. I'm still a bit hungry, but if I'm still hungry by 8 when I make my lunch for tomorrow, I'll have a celery stalk with something on it.