You Day 29

Tis the Winter of My Discontent

So I go to the doctor to get one of umpteenth prescriptions refilled. My blood pressure's low 100/60 (almost vampiric.) However, I'm now .5 pounds heavier. WTF? Everyone keeps saying it's water weight, muscle weighs more than 4, I'm PMSing but it still doesn't make me feel better. Thank God, Sam has my scale because I would have thrown it out the window.

Now Be Rationale
I will say that I do feel better and that weight is only a number. I'm up to 105 situps and 50 pushups 3 times a week and whatever strength exercises are included in the you book. The invisible chair is getting slightly easier. I am also doing at least 1/2 of yoga twice a week so hopefully that will catch up. In addition, I'll averaging 1500 calories a day. No cheating. Not a chip, not a cooking, not a french fry, not a drop of wine.

Food 911

I love salt and chocolate. The salt has been easy. I have a constant supply of pickles and olives close at hand. For the chocolate, I keep a bag of hershey semi-sweet chocolate chips (yes the kind for baking.) I tbsp is 70 calories so I drizzle it on my fruit of choice, usually bananas. It was a big hit with the bf. Surprisingly, their garden harvest soup recipe is pretty good. I had to add jalepenos because it was a bit bland and I added whole wheat to it for texture.So without the pasta it's 246 calories for 3 cups (the book has enough for 10 cups but I scaled it down.) I have the recipe if you want it. I also started eating raw almonds (just a half ounce.) It's supposed to be good for you and I take the multi-vitamins.

Every Sunday, I still take my walk, usually around Fairmount Park at 3 p.m. This week my special guest stars were Sam and Janet.

In Conclusion I'm done with my pity party. This is still my goal - to be Morticia. No one wants to see a fat Morticia. Won't Mike make a great Gomez though:) So that's about 40 pounds by October.