Do you hear that? Listen closely. Closer.... closer.... still can't hear it? I'm surprised, because I can certainly hear my tummy muscles screeching at me! Tee hee. I just finished doing some crunchies.

I had a pretty good day today. Casual day at work, although got into a bit of disgreement with my brother (who also works in the office). We rarely have to work together but when we do he does this weird I am the boss crap that really drives me crazy. He is in no way my boss. As I said, we rarely work together and our jobs rarely cross paths. But other than that, work was fine.

Golfed an executive 9hole with Aimee and her husband. It was the first time she had ever golfed and it was hilarious. Although, maybe not as hilarious as my playing. I don't know what's going on but my game has been horrible lately! Aimee has been married for almost a year now (I was her maid of honour) and her husband and I get along reasonably well except that I find him very moody and that drives me crazy. After the game, A and I were talking about going out to get something to eat, but Mr. Grumpy (which is what I like to call him sometimes) decided he really, REALLY wanted to go home. That ticked me off, but what ticked me off even more is that A always follows him and says, okay dear, if that's what you want to do. Gawd forbid I ever become like that. Anyway, enough of that griping hey?

I'm in a pretty good mood, my eating was really good and that is something I am proud of today. I have to take things one day at a time and if I can find one thing I was especially proud of, I feel better. I didn't get as much exercise as I would have liked to, but at least I got a little. Oh! And one more thing I'm proud of today is that I drank 8 glasses of water. I've been working up to it for 2 weeks! I'm still visiting the ladies room a lot, but it's getting better.

I have been invited to a "Survivor" weekend as a jack/jill wedding shower for my friend L. She and I are not best friends, but got pretty close while going through school. Anyway, my dilemma is that this survivor weekend runs from Saturday night to Sunday night. Every two hours (for the entire 24 hrs!) there is a challenge and a tribal council. A lot of the challenges will be physical etc. as in the tv show and I'm really worried that I'm just going to make a fool of myself and be voted off right away because I can't keep up with the team. I'm thinking about coming up with an excuse for not going. I'm not a big "joiner". I prefer to spend time in small groups (2 or 3), not large parties and I was never much of a team player (unless I was in charge!). What do you think? Should I go? I know I don't want L. to be disappointed that I'm not coming, but on the other hand she'll have tons of people there and probably wouldn't even notice that I wasn't there.

Anyhow, your thoughts would be appreciated.

On another note, I just wanted to add my bit of encouragement to everyone out there who didn't have a great food or exercise day. Trust me people, if I can do it, YOU CAN TOO! When it comes to food and exercise, trust in yourself and your ability to make the right decisions at the right time. Good luck all.

Food today:

B: 1 small apple bran muffin, 1/4 cantaloupe, 1 cup of coffee with cream and sugar twin

L: 1 serving of veggie lasagna, 1 piece (2" x 2") of garlic bread

Snack: non-fat yogurt, apple

Dinner: large salad with carrots, celery, cucumber, non-fat dressing, 1oz cheddar cheese, 1 cup of homemade vegetable barley soup, homemade low-fat corn muffin, diet coke with lemon wedge

Evening snack: peppermint herbal tea, 3 low-fat raspberry fig newtons

Water: 8 (!!!!!)

Exercise: 9hole executive course golf, 15 minute stretch, 20 crunchies, 20 leg stretch/crunchies