CDCC Week 2 Weigh In

252.4 =  1.6 pounds lost this week.

It was a rollercoaster.  Up to 255 for TOM before coming back down.  Just squeaked in a loss for the week on the last day.

Food: Sun (1658, no ex), Mon (1285, 15 min step, 15 min pilates DVDs), Tues (1211, 20 min DVD), Wed (1250, 45 minutes on 2 DVDs),  Thurs  (1570, no ex), Fri (1294, no ex), Sat (1679, 15 min elliptical)

It was a good exercise to go back through the week for this summary because in my memory I did better than the numbers show.  I went over 1370 calories on 3 days, and didn't exercise on 3 days.  Food after the fire drills Monday and Saturday was bad.  Yesterday it was hamburgers with cheddar cheese and bacon inside.  I had one with no bun.  It musta had lots of additives because on top of the 450 calories (!!) it was, all it did was make me hungrier.

Food after Monday's drill was pizza and I had 2 small square pieces.  And a few of us went out for lunch Friday to, you guessed it, a pizza place.  I'm so thrilled to be invited that of course I went.  I logged the cals.

Exercise: I started the week doing DVDs, but fell off the wagon after I overdid it jumping around Wednesday.  When I finally made myself do  something again yesterday, I went back to the elliptical at the firehouse, 15 min yesterday and 20 minutes this morning.  I didn't push myself.  This week's PMS was a major bad surprise, much worse than usual, and it threw me way off balance.

Reading:  I started the new book, How to Raise Your Self Esteem and did some of the writing exercises Friday night.

Supporting other bloggers:  I think I only supported 5-10 this week.  I read them all, but need to come up with a better system for commenting (I can't comment on blogs from work and didn't spend enough time on it in the evenings).

Good for the week:  I went to a poetry slam on Tuesday night that I enjoyed, and went to the beer meetup (late) on Thursday.  Three fire calls this week, a car accident, an EMS call and a fire alarm.  Have been in email contact with a few dudes on OKCupid.  May be meeting one tonight.  My face slims first, and it feels good to see myself looking better.  Gives me more confidence.

Bad for the week:  The PMS really made me feel emotionally terrible on Wednesday and Thursday.  I had no plans for Friday or Saturday night and was hoping that stuff would be going on at the firehouse that I could hang around.  Nope.  Nothing.  It's not fitting into my world that I think I can make friends with a bunch of guys in their early 20s.  (The lowlight was me texting one of them last night to see if he wanted to hang out at the firehouse.  He said no.)  It just doesn't fit.  I could be their mother.  They probably see that better than I do.

I'm so freaking busy during the weekday evenings, that I need to take a hard look at giving my time and energy only to things and people that make me feel great. (I've been doing dog training on Tuesdays for the last 4 weeks and all it does is stress me and the dog out.  Hm.  I'm only halfway through it.)   Then the weekend comes and I'm bored and lonely.  Double Hm.

I can't wait for Meditation class to start on October 4th.  Plus, I think I'll go to an open mic at a nearby coffeehouse on Thursday (to watch :)  I love being around creative people!) and I think there's another beer meetup on Friday.  Yeah, I'm a planner.  Good thing, because I can start saving up the calories now for a few beers on Friday.  My goal is to make next weekend better than this weekend has been, and that is totally doable.