Day 39: 2/18/2010

I woke up reluctantly this morning to go to class. I was dragging literally all day today. I had a toasted WW english muffin with WW cream cheese spread and 2 tsp grape jelly for 3pts for breakfast. It was so delicious.

I went to my first class and nearly fell asleep 4 times and actually did fall asleep once! I resigned myself to not paying attention and only trying to keep my eyes open. After class, I went to Wilsdorf Cafe for my caffeine I.V. and got a diet pepsi 0pts. It helped a little. I did some of my Vibes hw (due Sat) while there. After finishing a few problems, I went to the Christinas' office to eat lunch and they weren't there!! Sad day. So I ate my 4pt Smart Ones Beef and Asian Style Veggies in solitude while finishing off my Pepsi. 

 

Then, still not fully caffeinated, I grabbed a diet sunkist 0pts I had brought to work and headed to a meeting with my advisor about the conference Matt and I are attending over spring break. I've got a lot of work to do to prepare for this, but I can get it done with time to spare if I buckle down. (PS- does anyone know a good dog/puppy kennel in the c-ville area we can leave Bear at?)

After my solo lunch, I went to Vibes for another monotonous lecture. I played cribbage while taking notes with a guy in my class. (An unwise decision overall, but I had apparently brought up the idea late one night this past weekend.) In class, we found out our homework wouldn't be due for a few extra days- not really what I wanted to hear, I was banking on the deadline to keep me motivated.

After class, I was still dragging so I zoomed home for an hr siesta. It was amazing. I grabbed Matt from school after that and we decided to go out for Chinese buffet. Always a downfall for weight watchers, but its Matt's favorite place and we both needed some us time. I had french fries 13pts, 2 crab wontons 6pts, 2 beef dumplings 3pts, and 1/2 cup spicy chicken 7pts. (These are estimates.) In my fortune cookie, I had 2 fortunes! I didn't eat the cookie though. I was really excited so I took a picture, but then Matt's had 3- he's more fortunate. :) no? too cheesy? 

 

 My plate of food! (I didn't eat all those fries, my goal at chinese buffets is during the first round, put as many fries on my plate as possible because they are generally stale and then wait for them to refill the buffet with fresh ones before actually eating any. So far its fool proof.)

  

My two fortunes!

I watched The Deep End and Grey's when we got home and went to bed early.

THURSDAY STATS:

Points: 36/25

Weekly Allowance Points: 19 remaining/35 weekly

Activity Points Earned: 6 today/6 week

Exercise: 0

Weekly Weight Loss: -4.2 lbs / -12 lbs total

Hope to see less of each other next time!
Casey

Day 38: 2/17/2010 Ash Wednesday

Made it past Tuesday- thank goodness, but now I have a crazy amount of work piled up for the rest of the week. Got up this morning and grabbed a granola bar 2pts before driving Matt to work. I had to take the car into the shop today so I decided to run errands and then work from home until my appt.

 

After dropping Matt, I ran a few errands and then came home, played with Bear, and graded papers- its an uphill battle all the way to get these graded before the next assignment is due. I had ravioli with spinach and marinara sauce for 5pts with a diet sunkist 0pts for lunch while working at my desk.

 

At noon, I went to mass at St. Thomas with Cait for Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent. I toyed with a lot of ideas on what to give up for 40 days for my fast. In the past, I gave up hitting my sisters (age 7 or 8), soda (some time in high school), speaking to or seeing my boyfriend at the time (age 17), chocolate (age 18), and alcohol (age 20- shouldn't have been a challenge b/c i was underage, but it was). Some of those were harder than others, but they were all memorable fasts; so this year, I thought about what would be most fruitful to staying focused on God for 40 days and prepare me for Easter. 

The candidates were- drum roll please- giving up alcohol (vetoed by Cait and the fact that I'm in grad school), giving up cussing (I decided its so reactionary that I'm going to try to stop anyway but not have it be my conscious fast), giving up tv (well I watch hulu), giving up hulu (this was definitely a contender), and giving up caffeine. While there are a lot of good options there, I was talking to Matt and he said that I could also choose to do something every day for 40 days. OK- so that's new. Positive fasting?? So like instead of not eating, I eat extra? Exciting. So out with the old and in with the new, I'm going to try this positive fasting idea. I'm going to read a chapter from the Bible every day. I think this will also be the best for where I am in my life right now too. Good words, good times.

After mass, I went to Jamie's and let Miss Hammy out. She's always sooooo excited to see her Aunt Casey. Love it. I then had to take the car into the shop....I think its getting a bit redundant if I qualify this with AGAIN??! So car fixed, I headed home for a bit. I had 3pts of chips and guac while reading my weight watchers materials from the meeting the day before. I'm going to have to work on learning to use setpoints values.

 

After that, I went to get my eyebrows waxed at Oasis Spa for my first weight related reward! (See right side of blog.) After that, I dropped the car off with Matt and headed home w/ Cait to study. I tried to set up the PC tablet for grading. I was having issues when I first tried to use it. Still no luck- calibrating the touch screen isn't working. I'm going to have to talk to Larry and put grading off until this is resolved. After a while, Cait and I met Jamie at the gym for a work out- I did the elliptical for 30 mins + 4 activity pts before I started to have pain while breathing. Wah oh. I switched to lower intensity on the stationary bike for the last 25 mins for another +2 activity pts. After that, we went to Jamie's and had some more chips and guac for another 3pts.

Then we headed home to make dinner. We had meatless spaghetti with WW mozzarella cheese (I had wheat noodles, yuck) 4pts, lemon broccli 1pt, a ciabatta roll with 1/4 tsp. olive oil 3pts, and an artichoke with lemon butter sauce (light on the butter) 1pt-- and of course, diet sunkist 0pts.

 

 

After dinner, I was sooo excited about watching Cougar Town, but then it was a rerun and I was totally deflated so I decided to go to bed early.

NOTE: My daily pts allowance has decreased because I am now in the 180's. I now get 25 points per day.

WEDNESDAY STATS:

Points: 22/25

Weekly Allowance Points: 30 remaining/35 weekly

Activity Points Earned: 6 today/6 week

Exercise: 0

Weekly Weight Loss: -4.2 lbs / -12 lbs total 

Hope to see less of each other next time!
Casey