Strangers at Subway (Every sub has a silver lining)

Ruby Pearl Cavanaugh, my trusty blogging assistant
showing the world what she thinks of my work.

I wasn't planning to post this week because of my beef with my scale and my bit of laziness, lack of good sleep, and a broken fridge issue over the past week. But, alas, something nice came about and ruined a perfectly good pissy attitude so here I am; laid back blogging with the dog and the laptop.

Construction of a Wednesday crappy attitude:

Layer 1
GDD. Gym Deficit Disorder.  If you recall, I had a tiny increase on the scale last week and my trainer was on vacation.  While I did mostly keep up with cardio  on my own while Big A was away I barely hit the gym for over a week.  (We started back, thank God, this Monday)  I put in some good miles on the road but I could definitely tell a difference in my energy and attitude.  I'm sure my husband did too. -Love you, boo!

Layer 2
FF. Fridge Fail.  Our refrigerator died and we were without one for a a little over a week.  Do you know how hard it is to eat healthy foods, that you generally have to cook, without cold stuff?  Of course it was much easier to just eat out that take extra steps to eat all of the healthiest choices.  It got ugly. Italian restaurant ugly.  This lead to layer three even though I've been back on track for a few days with food.

Layer 3
WWF.  No, not Words With Friends-  Weight Watchers Fail.  I'm further away from 50 lbs lost than I was last week. That's no shocker given the events leading up to my weigh-in today.  What was a shock was my open-mouthed Napoleon Dynamite "GossssH" when I saw the number.  Really? How was I shocked? I knew what was going to happen! The good thing is it wasn't damage that isn't reversible and I'll have that number back where it needs to be by the next time I show my face in there.

There it is. -Three layers of piss and vinegar. A few other things also didn't go my way between the time I left work and the end of my 25 mile commute and made me want to drive right by Anytime Fitness and go straight to the end that road to the BBQ joint for buckets of mac-and-cheese.  But I didn't.  My evening plans had changed so I went in for Big A training and of course felt great after.

My attitude was starting to turn around when I went to our neighborhood Subway after my workout.  Usually about once a week we 'treat' ourselves to Subway.  I always go sweaty and in my soaked gym clothes.  I'm sure those people get tired of seeing me in lycra. Anyway.  There is one lady who is always there at the same time as me. I don't know her and she never speaks.  Tonight, she did.  As I ordered she said "Honey, I just don't know why you even get that sandwich when you're not goin' to put no cheese or mayne-aze on it! Wouldn't be worth it to me. Nuh uh! I love mayne-aze too much!" She was so cute!  I told her I was working on my health, etc. She said she had noticed me come in and out of there for while and she thought I was always coming from the gym or somewhere- and that she had noticed a difference in the way I looked and that I should keep up the good work and not go to Subway too much! How sweet was that!? I thought that was thoughtful and encouraging.  She cracked me up! It really did wash the stank right off of me!

So things are turning around.

What else?

• The yard sale was great and I re-homed a lot of clothes that don't no longer fit me.
• We're 23 days away from football kick-off and less than 20 days away from soccer season!
• Oh, and this:  

I love her!

Wish me luck this week!

Yes, yes I did.

I took the day off from the gym today (after completing my first 3 mile run/walk yesterday and still going at night to do upper body stuff). And I ate Cheetos after I finished writing my paper today. My fingers are still orange and I'm not sorry.

There's An App For That...

Well even with my nonfat mocha this morning (I might this a daily thing!) my head has hurt just enough to bug the tar out of me today! Odd, huh.  I have the bit of caffeine in the coffee so that means, to me, that my body just wants that Coke! Ridiculous. I also noticed it hurt a little more after my Nats lost today. :(

Anyway - not much different today. I'm just still trying to figure this thing out.  For now you all will likely see a lot of "this is what I ate today" and "I choose this when I would normally have this".  I ate well today and didn't really make any bad decisions, but was still hungry a lot. I'll just deal! I think that might have to be my little mantra for a while. I'll Just DEAL!

Victory of the day:  Resisted the candy isle at CVS. Bam!

Oh, also, if you're not getting the Cleo salad (I got mine with turkey) when you go to Bodo's in Cville you're crazy. I had it for dinner tonight - very light and filling! -And the dressing is not heavy either!


To finish up - the App.  My best good friend showed my My Fitness Pal and it's very cool! She's using it to track what she's eating. I played around with it and really like it. I'm going to use it to track what I eat to see if I'm REALLY being as good as I think I am. You can track your physical activity too.

I mentioned the other day that I had a walking/running app.  I want to give you a little more detail about it. It's LoLo Treadmill.  LoLo is my girl!!! She even talks to me a little. What's great about LoLo is the integration between the music on my phone and the workout.  You can create a playlist that LoLo loads in to the app and it then calculates the bpm of each song and pairs the songs to play when you're walking, running, etc.  So fun!


Speaking of walking/running and such-  I haven't done much this week. I'm on it.