Blog spoofing: Rehab Day 10

So just some quick Rehab updates and then a blog entry unrelated.
Current weight 233
New favorite exercise thing: The shake weight (yes it works your arms will hurt!)

Now for the unrelated:

I love to read other peoples blogs and I recently came across one called Sex, Lies and Bacon. It's a "diary" of a single mom. She basically writes a great deal about her vagina, how crappy her ex-husband is and her sexcapdes. Some of it's funny, but it all made me think, how would my daily life fit into her recipe. So I decided to write a blog post trying to fit my blog into her life. Here goes:

Too tired for sex, "Mommy, it wasn't me" and M&Ms

Today was an awesome day in my world of SAHM hood. (Not sure what SAHM means, man you are sooo uncool). This morning I woke up at 6am because my sons foot was shoved literally up my ass! Why? Because we were up until 2am. Wait did I say we, I meant me. No power lead to both kids in bed with me. My husband due to snoring got to sleep in my sons double bed sans kids. It's hard to fall asleep with a curly mop of 2 yr old hair going in your mouth and up you nose. And every time I would open my eyes, these big hazel eyes would stare at me and say, "Hi Mommy, you sleeping!" Then there was the echos of "It's dark!" etc etc etc. We finally fell asleep only to wake up at some point because all the lights came on, so 2 yr old to crib, 5 yr old smashed next to me and daddy back in bed. Lots of action in the sack last night!

Today between my deep obsession with the Casey Anthony trial, cleaning bathrooms and potty training above 2 yr I never left the house. Exciting. I made a dinner that only the adults ate and bribed my kids to pee with M&M's. I might cruise through Ashland in a bit, going 25 MPH in my Mommy mobile to hit up the Wal-Mart for another pack of Princess Pull-ups and some kids bath wash. If your lucky I'll Foursquare it and just to show the gen-y crowd that I still got it, I might even search my Twitter for a coupon! Bitches!

***I am in no way trying to start a single moms/married moms battle. Everyone's life is hard, I totally get it. I jumped into the breast milk/formula battle on-line once I learned my lesson then!*********

The Joy of Cooking: Rehab Day 3

Things are going very well!  I have done the things I said I would and I am feeling great! I am doing some hard analyzing of things and one thing I realized is I LOVE to cook! I already knew this, but I looked one step deeper into it.  I don't necessarily love to eat, but I love the process of cooking.  I find it cathartic. Chopping the veggies, mixing sauces, playing with textures and tastes.  It just makes me happy. So I peeled the onion one layer deeper and realized that cooking is no different that creating with paper or paint.  No different than designing or decorating. Even really no different than photography.  These are all things that I adore and make me happy.  They all use creativity, thinking, art and tools.  Cooking does evoke the use of another sense that some of these do not and that is the sense of smell.  Maybe that is why cooking ranks at the top of my list of favorite hobbies.  It uses all of the senses.   I am going to do some baking this weekend.  It's been years since I have baked bread.  I found my favorite yeast at the local Martin's and grabbed it.  So instead of Peter heading to Whole Foods weekly for their fresh Italian bread and then spending more money on impulse items only found at Whole Foods, I decided to try and make him some.  I found am Italian bread recipe that calls for the use of a biga, so Saturday I will make that first. Then 5 hours later its time to start the process of creating the bread.  I will let you know the results.  I do not eat bread in general.  I will take a tiny taste and usually it has to be toasted to not cause Cybil a problem.  But I will surely taste a smidge to see how I did!

I have not weighed myself since Sunday. I am trying to hold off until Friday, but I am a scale addict!  My hardest challenge so far has been drinking enough water.  I just don't do it.  It's not that I don't like water, I am just not a big drinker.  Add in not drinking 30 minutes before a meal (I follow that rule loosely), during a meal and for an hour after and it makes getting in your daily amounts hard!

Accomplishment of the day:  I am wearing a size 18 sundress as I type this!  It's been a loooonnngggg time since my size did not contain a "2"!

Joie de vivre. Joy of life. Live it, love it and if you    don't, then change it! 

Absence of Malice: Rehab Day 1

Try -
–verb (used with object)

1.to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.

2.to test the effect or result of (often followed by out ): to try a new method; to try a recipe out.

3.to endeavor to evaluate by experiment or experience: to try a new field; to try a new book.

You try a great deal of things in life.  You try to do well, be upstanding, live life to it's fullest and be as good or better as the generation before you. You also do simple things like trying a new sport, new foods, new hairstyles, etc.  In trying new things one thing is inevitable, failing.  If you do not realize that failing could be an option, even though no one wants it, then you quite possibly are setting yourself up for a great let down.  You start all new things with a gun-ho vigor that could take down the biggest obstacles. Things are great, you are the Guru of your new found "try" and then it happens.  Life, old habits, monotony, etc and the "try" becomes a fail.  

In the past I have been known to turn a "try" into a fail on numerous occasions.  I love to try new things, projects and tasks, I just hate following through.  I find another new thing to "try" and never finish the first one.  It's a pattern I am attempting to correct.  Today is the restart of Rehab.  I have had fun, taken my eye off the goal and now I am once again focused.  

Like any good Rehab, mine is starting with detox!  Whats that entail? Well the downloading of  a calorie counting app (I am using a free one called Calorie Counter by FatSecret) was my first step this morning.  I will use it to manage exercise, calories and protein used in a day.   My second step this morning was filling a 20oz water bottle with water and drinking it (after a mug of coffee).  Third, eating breakfast, which I combined with step 4 drinking a protein shake.  Step 5, planning a lunch and eating what was planned.  

So far so good.  Want to know what I have eaten today so far:

Breakfast:

8oz 2% milk w/ sugar free Carnation Instant Breakfast added and a tsp of instant expresso

Snack:

Dannon DanActive Immunity Yogurt Shot (blueberry)

Lunch:

1/2 large Pink Lady Apple

1/2 serving of Oscar Meyer Deli Express Grilled Chicken mixed with:

1 Hard Boiled Egg &

1 tbsp Ken's Steakhouse lite Honey Mustard Dressing (yeah, it was kinda gross)

So far so good.  I am hungry (I need a fill badly, but keep forgetting to call maybe I should do that now, LOL).  The big test will be dinner and after. I have/had been in a bad habit of eating nothing all day, then eating a big (big for me) dinner, then having a Margaritta or glass of wine and snacking.  One thing I am planning to do to stop the snacking is drinking a decaf coffee, and if I need to snack having veggies dipped in FF dressing.  I wanted to add to that I feel with any huge thing in your life, by that I mean something that takes a great deal of effort and a lot of time, you need to reinvent it and refresh it every so often. 

I also plan to exercise at night.  My parents gave me the fit board thingy for our Wii.  I ordered Julian Michaels (barf, I can not stand her, but obviously I need her) and Golds Gym Wii games.  I hope they show up today.  I will *try (read above to see that I lose interest quickly, LOL) to write a blog daily.  I think it will be helpful, but boring for you guys.  Maybe you will enjoy seeing what I eat everyday, maybe it will help you!  

The other thing I did over the last week is rid my life of a toxic relationship that was causing some stress.  I am a stress eater and I just don't need malice in my relationships.  Friendships should be rewarding and fulfilling for all people involved, not hurtful and stressful.  

 

So guys here we go again! Who's with me?

Current weigh 235