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12.18.2003 Weight: 264Mood: moderately tired Once again I didn't get to sleep until really late (another nice thing about Lyndon getting a new job -- it would be much easier for me to go to bed at a reasonable hour), so I'm a bit blinky right now. Not a big deal -- I figure I'll hit the sack relatively early tonight and make up for it that way. By the way, I'm four pounds away from making my Christmas goal -- yeah! I also decided that I WILL try to do 250 by New Years Day. That might be impossible, but what the heck -- nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? And with that in mind, I'm going to head downstairs and hop on the treadmill for a half hour. Toodles! |
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12.17.2003 Weight: 265Mood: reluctantly perky I was in the cafeteria yesterday, picking up my usual chicken caesar salad and hard boiled eggs for lunch, when I found myself idly examining the ranks of "energy drinks" lined up in the freezer cabinet. One of them, Monster Energy, had a low-carb version. Since I was slightly mole-eyed from JJ having a bad dream that morning (I can only assume that's why he was yowling outside our bedroom door at 5:30 AM), I figured what the heck, let's pick up a can and try it. At first, it tasted like slightly carbonated juice of some sort (pear, maybe), that someone dissolved Flintstones chewable vitamins in, then left to ferment. Later on, I decided that it tasted like hairspray (and no, I don't drink hairspray. But you can guess how something will taste if you smell it, and Lord knows I've smelled enough hairspray in my life), and resolved to write it off as an interesting but ultimately unsuccessful experiment. That was before this morning, when I weighed myself and found I'd lost three pounds of water weight. Um. . . Yeah, well, it still tastes like hairspray. However, that water weight loss was nice, and I feel decidedly perky (although much of that can be attributed to Lyndon's interview). So, since the loss of more water weight would be highly desired right now, I'm gagging down another can. It helps if I sip it through a straw without breathing, I've found. |
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12.15.2003 Weight: 268Mood: determined Yeah, yeah, I know -- real life intervened, okay? Not to mention illness, the Christmas hafla, Christmas shopping, my period and a number of other things that also kept me out of the gym. Hey, at least I didn't gain anything, okay? So, TODAY I'm going back on Atkins (which is going to be a real bitch, considering that we're having the White Elephant party at Isis's tonight and there will be many, many goodies available). So far I've been good -- I had a chicken caesar salad and three hard-boiled egg whites for lunch, and I'll have a low carb bar before class and a couple of broiled chicken breasts when I get home. I also had a bag of mozzarella cheese sticks, but I needed a damn quarter, okay? Besides, they weren't that bad, carb-wise -- only 16 carbs. I also figure that it would take a Christmas miracle for me to lose 18 pounds in 10 days, so I've readjusted my Christmas goal to be 260. If I can make that, I'll be a happy little camper. |
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