Pretty good week

It's been a pretty good week. I feel normal. I know normal is hard to describe, but it's the closest word I can use. I feel normal when my brain isn't constantly in a fog and when my tiredness is normal and doesn't feel like I'm slogging through syrup to get through my day. Normal. Just Normal. It's a very nice feeling.

I tend to pay attention more when I feel normal. I also get more done and don't feel like I need to sleep for 2 days straight afterwards. Nice.

On another note, I've decided that I'm going to start using Spark People to log my food rather than bore any readers with every single morsel of food I put in my mouth.

Went to class last night. There was no curve on the exam this time, since the average was 78, but I still managed to pull over 100. Obviously she has extra credit built into her grading system, which is good.

When I got to class, I was anticipating the horrid heat that I experienced in the classroom on Teusday night. I stopped by the cafe and ordered an unsweetened iced tea. That was great, but then I bought a rice creispy treat to go with it. Yummy, but really not very healthy and not something that will help me reach my goal. *sigh*

At break, I went down to the snack machine room and bought a bag of cheez-its (areguable the healthiest thing in there) and a bottle of orange crush. Again, not that healthy. I did end up throwing out more than half the bag of cheezits and about half the soda. I congratulate myself for not finishing it all just because it was there. Maybe next time, I'll take a moment and realize I don't need to eat it in the first place. :-p

My new goal is to someday buy True Religion jeans. Overpriced piece of cotton, but it's a symbol of all the clothing I could never wear in the past. :)

Amazing weekend

So continuing my thoughts from this morning.

I had an absolute blast this weekend. It also meant that I paid absolutely no attention to the nutritional content of food and appreciated it for its taste alone.

Friday night was steak and mashed potatoes at a very expensive restaurant. Very good, but I did eat more than normal because, well, it was a $30 steak. How could I leave behind any portion of a $30 steak?

Saturday was a full room service breakfast, a yummy decadent ice cream cone (cookie dough flavor), godiva chocolate almond bark, nathan's hotdog and sprite, and then ocktail appetizzers at the party. Not to mention quite a bit of alcohol.

That's right, I was drunk. VERY VERY drunk. I had an absolutely fabulous time though. It's been my experience that if I get drunk early, I get to spend the rest of the night drinking water and I'm not hung over the next day. Had wings and half a burger at 2am and then went to bed. As expected, I did not wake up drunk on Sunday. Fabulous. Had a bagel (a real Jersey bagel!) as a late breakfast and then headed home.

No one wanted to cook so we went out for chinese (hence the leftover chinese food).

When I fall off the wagon I do it in a spectacular fasion.

This morning I got up late, ended up with just a Pria bar for breakfast and not-good-for-me-at-all "breakfast" of fat, fat, sure, and fatty protein from the cafeteria.

Seriously, need to get back to healthy nutritional meals. I know they make me feel better. And I skipped out on the gym last night because I was truly enjoying my evening with my dog and my computer on the back porch.

Time to get back on track? Most definitely.

Yesterday's food was a little all over the place.

Lunch:
turkey and provolone on foccacia bread with spinach and tomato
a few vegetable chips
13 oz tazzo green tea

"Snack"
leftover chinese food

Dinner:
ham and salami on white roll with lettuce, tomato, and hummus
unsalted blue corn chips

Really all over the place. Part of the blame is, I think, on the fact that I forgot my snacks and therefore was starving when I got home. Leftover chinese was 1. fast 2. easy. Well that settled it for me. I don't need any excuse to make anything when all I have to do is heat and eat.

RockStar didn't get home with any semblance of grocieries until after 9pm. That meant being hungry for 3 hours, god forbid. Really, I need to learn that hunger isn't an emergency that requires you stuff any and all available food into your mouth.

I'm not really being fair to myself though. I was hungry. I had last eaten at 1:30-1pm-ish so by 6pm I was understandable hungry. I did what most people do: grabbed what was easy and fast.

To be continued...

Breakfast:
4.25oz strawberries - 40
20g Reddiwhip - 60
1 muffin top - 100
Total: 200

New Month...thanks goodness

The past week has been rough. I had a tough weekend where I pretty much slept all weekend and got very little done. Not to mention spending most of Saturday at a relatives house.

Got very angry with someone on Tuesday and stewed about that for several days. Spent most nights/days doing tax problems in preparation for the exam last night. We'll get to find out how I did next Thursday night.

It's been tough to find time to do everything I wanted to do, and some things had to be skipped because of time.

I had no time for the gym and didn't log on to the computer very often. As you may have noticed, there are several days where I only posted 1 or 2 meals or none at all. My world will largely be back to normal as of Monday, and I hope to get back on a consistent schedule.

Notice I said Monday. Tonight, I'm getting home, throwing stuff in a bag and rushing off to Jersey. A friend is having a birthday party on Saturday night, so we're going to spend the whole weekend out there. We're eating out at a fancy (read: expensive) restaurant tonight, and I'm not going to limit myself to anything. If I'm paying for it, I'm eating it, darn it!

Saturday is, of course, the party and, if I know my friend, he'll have lots of tasty and bad for you treats.

I'll definitely be hitting the gym this weekend though. The hotel we booked has a workout room. Yay!

Dinner:
1 4oz turkey burger - 120
1 potato roll - 130
1.5 cups salad - 30
3oz seasoned potatoes - 130
1 perogie - 110
Total: 520

5oz strawberries - 50
40g special dark chocolate sauce - 90
30g Reddiwhip - 90
Total: 230

Morning snack:
1 cracker barrel cheese stick - 90

Lunch:
3.75oz BBQ chicken - 175
1/2c green beans - 30
1 small sweet potato - 60
1 tbsp I can't believe it's not butter - 80
Total: 345