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brightbluegirlDay ONE!!!
So far, so good. I didn't sleep well at all last night, and my knees slightly hurt from walking and dancing in my going out boots. Since I drank, and didn't sleep very much, the scale says I gained 2 lbs. That's ok - it'll be gone tomorrow or Wednesday.
The eating is easy so far. Open faced tuna sandwiches on sprouted grain bread, split pea spread, and oat bran with apples and raisins and soy milk for breakfast. Dinner tonight is "Asian Delight" - a vegan dish we haven't tried yet. I'll let you know how it goes.
For the workout, tonight I'm supposed to to 30 min cardio and a leg workout. I MAY switch the leg workout for an upper body workout, if my knees still hurt when I get home. And if I'm feeling good after the workout, I may get back onto the ellipse and do 30 minutes more. I'm not going to force it though, since I need sleep.
And I've been drinking water like it's going out of style. You'd think I'd been drinking last night or something. :P
Our weekend was pretty good, except for the taxes thing.
Other than that, on Saturday we played with our new camera, and had a relaxing day. We decided that instead of the fancy dinner we had planned (gnocchi with asparagus and pesto), that we really wanted poutine. So we had poutine for dinner. :P For dessert I made a vegan chocolate cake with cream cheese icing (yes, I know, why make vegan if you're going to slather it with cream cheese icing? The answer is Because I Can. :P), which was SO sweet, but SO GOOD.
We lazed around that day. I read in the bath for hours. HOURS! I decided not to get out until I finished the book I was reading. Heh. I'm so lazy. I added hot water to the bath twice. It was awesome.
On Sunday we made the invites (or at least, decorated the outsides), and I made split pea spread, we ate the gnocchi dish for dinner (ooooh it was good), and went out. It was an easy, easy weekend.
The club was fun. At first, I was afraid it was going to be one of THOSE clubs. The snobby exclusive bullshit goth club. But it wasn't, not at all. Lots of girls smiled at me as we passed each other (although there were the "I must purse my lips at thee, because I am wearing red lipstick and I am GOTH" types, they were the minority). A guy (a total playa, I believe) told me he liked my dancing. I had TWO rye and ginger's, but they were VERY strong. Which is good, since they cost $5.50 each.
But they were good. It was a nice, smooth rye. Yum.
Anyway.
I danced a LOT. It was fun. I had such a good time. There were several dj's, so they switched off. We got there at 10:30, and it was busy enough that we could have gotten there a touch earlier and not felt like total goons. We left just before 12, although the dj's had just switched again and I wanted to see what the music would change to. But the last skytrain was at 12:15, and I wanted to be responsible. Ok, I didn't WANT to be responsible, but I thought maybe it was the right thing to do. I didn't want to spend extra money on a cab, or sabotage the first day of the 28.
Of course there were the usual horrible dancers. Heh. I love watching them. I admit, I love pointing them out, too. Andrew did a little show of all the bad dances he saw while we were waiting for the bus, and I almost peed myself, he was so good at being so, so, bad.
And now I'm at work.
Sometimes when I drink, the oddest thing happens. I get into bed, and I am SO COLD. I shiver uncontrollably and can't get warm until I put on thick wool socks and Andrew's thick warm winter housecoat, and THEN get underneath the king sized comforter and Andrew wraps his arms around me.
I mean, COLD. Can't sleep can't relax can't think COLD. From 2 drinks?? They only made me tipsy.
I used to think that it was a blood sugar thing, but because it was my last hurrah, Andrew made me a grilled cheese sandwich before bed. That would have definitely countered the blood sugar issue.
So I just don't know what's up with that. I wish I did, but it was so uncomfortable that I just don't want to drink any more, ever.
I also wish I knew some people here I could get acid from. That would solve the problem. Well, except I can't REALLY take acid on a work night.
So I went to bed around 2am, and couldn't sleep for at least another hour, and then woke up at 7 to take my pill, and could NOT sleep after that. And I'd told work I was coming in late and everything!
At least this means I can *leave* work closer to my normal time.
So far, so good. I didn't sleep well at all last night, and my knees slightly hurt from walking and dancing in my going out boots. Since I drank, and didn't sleep very much, the scale says I gained 2 lbs. That's ok - it'll be gone tomorrow or Wednesday.
The eating is easy so far. Open faced tuna sandwiches on sprouted grain bread, split pea spread, and oat bran with apples and raisins and soy milk for breakfast. Dinner tonight is "Asian Delight" - a vegan dish we haven't tried yet. I'll let you know how it goes.
For the workout, tonight I'm supposed to to 30 min cardio and a leg workout. I MAY switch the leg workout for an upper body workout, if my knees still hurt when I get home. And if I'm feeling good after the workout, I may get back onto the ellipse and do 30 minutes more. I'm not going to force it though, since I need sleep.
And I've been drinking water like it's going out of style. You'd think I'd been drinking last night or something. :P
Our weekend was pretty good, except for the taxes thing.
Other than that, on Saturday we played with our new camera, and had a relaxing day. We decided that instead of the fancy dinner we had planned (gnocchi with asparagus and pesto), that we really wanted poutine. So we had poutine for dinner. :P For dessert I made a vegan chocolate cake with cream cheese icing (yes, I know, why make vegan if you're going to slather it with cream cheese icing? The answer is Because I Can. :P), which was SO sweet, but SO GOOD.
We lazed around that day. I read in the bath for hours. HOURS! I decided not to get out until I finished the book I was reading. Heh. I'm so lazy. I added hot water to the bath twice. It was awesome.
On Sunday we made the invites (or at least, decorated the outsides), and I made split pea spread, we ate the gnocchi dish for dinner (ooooh it was good), and went out. It was an easy, easy weekend.
The club was fun. At first, I was afraid it was going to be one of THOSE clubs. The snobby exclusive bullshit goth club. But it wasn't, not at all. Lots of girls smiled at me as we passed each other (although there were the "I must purse my lips at thee, because I am wearing red lipstick and I am GOTH" types, they were the minority). A guy (a total playa, I believe) told me he liked my dancing. I had TWO rye and ginger's, but they were VERY strong. Which is good, since they cost $5.50 each.
But they were good. It was a nice, smooth rye. Yum.
Anyway.
I danced a LOT. It was fun. I had such a good time. There were several dj's, so they switched off. We got there at 10:30, and it was busy enough that we could have gotten there a touch earlier and not felt like total goons. We left just before 12, although the dj's had just switched again and I wanted to see what the music would change to. But the last skytrain was at 12:15, and I wanted to be responsible. Ok, I didn't WANT to be responsible, but I thought maybe it was the right thing to do. I didn't want to spend extra money on a cab, or sabotage the first day of the 28.
Of course there were the usual horrible dancers. Heh. I love watching them. I admit, I love pointing them out, too. Andrew did a little show of all the bad dances he saw while we were waiting for the bus, and I almost peed myself, he was so good at being so, so, bad.
And now I'm at work.
Sometimes when I drink, the oddest thing happens. I get into bed, and I am SO COLD. I shiver uncontrollably and can't get warm until I put on thick wool socks and Andrew's thick warm winter housecoat, and THEN get underneath the king sized comforter and Andrew wraps his arms around me.
I mean, COLD. Can't sleep can't relax can't think COLD. From 2 drinks?? They only made me tipsy.
I used to think that it was a blood sugar thing, but because it was my last hurrah, Andrew made me a grilled cheese sandwich before bed. That would have definitely countered the blood sugar issue.
So I just don't know what's up with that. I wish I did, but it was so uncomfortable that I just don't want to drink any more, ever.
I also wish I knew some people here I could get acid from. That would solve the problem. Well, except I can't REALLY take acid on a work night.
So I went to bed around 2am, and couldn't sleep for at least another hour, and then woke up at 7 to take my pill, and could NOT sleep after that. And I'd told work I was coming in late and everything!
At least this means I can *leave* work closer to my normal time.
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:24 pm (UTC)Unsolicited tip here, lose the scale for a couple weeks.
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:28 pm (UTC)I'll try, that's all I can say for now!
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:08 pm (UTC)I weigh myself every day to keep up with my trend, as it were. When I know I've gained water, it reminds me to drink more water to flush myself out, for example. It also serves as an internal motivator (and a positive one) since my trend IS downward, and if a lb or so should creep back on, I'd notice a lot sooner than usual.
(That person doesn't mention metabolisms that slow down when you eat less - just an aside. Also, when I'm not eating sugar, I don't have the weight fluctuation around the time of my period.)
that's why it's so difficult for me to not weigh myself every day - the good outweighs the bad for me personally.
I hope I haven't come across as "complaining" about what the scale says. That isn't how it is in my head!
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Date: 2004-02-16 06:11 pm (UTC)I'm just kind of an anti-scale person looking for recruits :)
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:25 pm (UTC)I'd really hoped not to but I find I tend to go too low if I'm not paying attention so I'll be starting to keep track of that from today.
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:30 pm (UTC)I know 1500 is low, but it's not TOO low. I tend to eat too little, or eat way too much, if I don't count. Counting keeps me on an even keel, and I don't get hungry, cuz I eat every 2 or 3 hours (and of course, I eat after working out).
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:36 pm (UTC)My whole point in all this is to be able to actually see my muscle gains and it would be counter productive to lose too much too fast.
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Date: 2004-02-16 09:41 pm (UTC)Now i'll drink a couple. say three or four mixed drinkin in about five hours, come home eat some bread drink lots of water and fall asleep. as some point in the night i will wake up and my heart will be pounding and i will have a panic attack. If bloody well sucks. Not sure why it's happening. I wonder thought if it's a caffeine thing. I think it happens most often when i drink CC and coke.
It's nice that you have warm socks and body heat to steal :)
And you're so so so cute for reading in the bath for hours... What a great idea, i may have to do that too since i'm board... I decided that i will learn french by reading sartre's nausea in french. It's going fairly well...
meh miss you pretty girl....
take care. sorry for rambling :p
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Date: 2004-02-17 05:47 am (UTC)Glad you got to go out and have fun!