Weekend:

Saturday:

2 cup cheerios with 1 cup partly skim milk, free-meal burger with fries and a coffee without sugar, handful of nachos.

exercise: a little walking, about 1/2 hour.

Sunday:

brunch was eaten out - buffet with eggs, hashbrowns, macaroni salad, cheese and coffee with sugar; 1 cup spaghetti with parmesan cheese.

exercise: 10 min bike, 15 min elliptical (really had me panting and groaning).

Today:

1 cup cheerios with 1/2 sup partly skim milk, coffee without sugar, vegetable soup, dinner is still unknown but i'm getting hungry thinking about it.

exercise: 1 hour aquasize.

Today:

breakfast - 1 cup cheerios with 1/2 cup partly skim milk.

lunch - minestrone soup.

dinner - sweet potato wrap, broccoli and cauliflower.

exercise - bike 1 hour.

This week has gone by alright diet and exercise-wise. Very busy. Shorthand. Going nuts!

Today:

breakfast - 1 cup cheerios with 1/2 cup partly skim milk

morning - coffee, no cream or sugar

lunch - vegetable medley soup

afternoon - coffee, no cream or sugar

dinner - sweet potato garlic & herb wrap with lettuce, onions and Italian spread, broccoli and cauliflower

exercise - 1 hour aquasize

snack - orange

Today:

breakfast - 1/2 cup lf mousse, 1 cup ff smoothie.

morning snack - cinnamin bun.

lunch - ham and cheese sandwich on ww.

afternoon snack - apple slice, 1/2 slice white cake with icing.

dinner - 3 oz salmon, grilled, with 1/2 cup rice and 2 cups lettuce with 2 tblspn lf dressing.

exercise - bike 1/2 hour, volleyball 1&1/2 hours.

I've been sick so have not been eating well because I tend to say goodbye to watching myself when i'm not feeling well. It's a pessimistic attitude that I cultivated long ago and just don't have the strength to give up right now. Notice how it's so much harder to give up bad habits than it is good ones? Anyhow, I took my weight down and will update the next time I weigh.

Monday:

breakfast - 2 pc whole wheat toast with light margarine, 1 mug coffee with creamer.

lunch - 1 cup Thai rice, 1 mug coffee with creamer.

dinner - 1 cup Thai rice with chicken, green beans and bean sprouts.

dessert - 1 small pc apple pie with low fat whip cream.

exercise - 1 hour Aquasize. I hurt myself somehow during this time. I have a sharp pain in my chest today that just won't go away.

total calories per fitday - 1560

Today's Plan:

breakfast - 1.5 pc whole wheat toast with peanut butter, 1 mug coffee with creamer.

lunch - 1 cup Thai rice with chicken, green beans and bean sprouts.

dinner - ?

exercise - 1/2 hour shovelling snow (yes, it snowed last night). 1/2 hour walk with dog since i'll already be bundled up. 2 hours volleyball.

total calories planned - 1500.

Well. Get ready for a tantrum.

My cold/flu is getting worse. I've been in and out of the bathroom a couple of times this morning. I'm slowly but surely losing steam. Last night and the night before I slept much more than the required 6 hours - I almost doubled that last night. And I woke up this morning feeling fine, but an hour later not even being able to look at anything without it blurring out on me. I'm missing out on my fun activities (volleyball) and it's making me angry.

The situation here at work is repulsive. I've had to work more in one job because of co-workers being away, and in-turn am being forced to take a back seat with the other job I have. I'm trying to do both today. I am angry and I have a right to be! Unfortunately I don't have a say or I would have already said it. Hey legcramps, don't take so much on next time. One job is enough.

I have hardly spent any time with the dog because of illness, and he's so starved for my attention that it makes me literally depressed. I just can't go out in this cold and attempt any sort of playfulness. Maybe I should just HAVE TO.

I talked to my boyfriend about his ignorance of the other day, and he simply shrugged his shoulders and not a word came from his mouth. He expects this to fade from my memory like everything else but unfortunately for him, since i'm so stressed about things right now this instance is sticking in my mind like glue on paper. I laugh at your impudence, poor pitiful boy! I mean, I WOULD laugh but i'm not in the mood right now.

All I want to do is hide my face in the blankets and wish it all away. Since I know I can't do that, i'm struggling to juggle things this way and that. I MUST relax, calm down, and face things one at a time. I MUST learn to let things go. I SHOULD take up meditating. I WILL not accomplish anything today.

Oh geez, am I ever having a bad week. It's not even worth telling you all about it, because it just seems to make the next day that much worse.

Had a burger yesterday for dinner, then slept right through the night.

Today's plan is perogies for lunch, crackers for a snack, and i'm not sure what for dinner. I still have this horrible cold and I just can't think anymore. I need so much more rest than i've been giving myself and it's starting to show. I'm here at work alone today, but I might as well have closed down the department completely for the amount of work i'll be able to do. Ah, suffer not, there will be light at the end of this tunnel.

I had a terrible day yesterday. I wonder if it was a full moon?

Had to run and buy candy after work, ran out of candy by 8pm and had to close the door to any other treaters, wanted to rest and sleep instead of aquasizing so cancelled on my friend, REMINDED my boyfriend that I needed a ride to work the next morning so please don't stay out too late tonight, called and REMINDED him again, watched a movie and went to sleep by around 10pm, was woken up by my boyfriend and one of his buddies at 2am and had to sit through an hour of really bad, drunken jamming, tried to use ear plugs to sleep but it didn't work, woke up in the morning to find that my boyfriend had left with his friend and was not yet home. I didn't get that ride after all.

Nothing precedes my anger today, but i'm coping considerably well according to a friend of mine. Oh, do I have some choice words to say to him tonight.

Salad and a pb sandwich today so far, with lots of coffee to keep me fidgety and busy. And busy it was...and is.

Hello ladies.

My sore throat has indeed progressed into a cough that could easily be associated with whooping cough. oi yoi yoi. I have to get a swab done and am feeling like a truck has run over me about ten times and all that's left are bone tissue and droplets of splattered blood. I had to say it that way because it's hallowe'en today.

I had an action filled weekend. I had Friday off of work, so I did some shopping for the hallowe'en party I hosted on Saturday night. Then I did some baking and cleaning. After all this, I was literally drained of any energy I might have had. Just after supper and without actually eating much of anything, I drifted off in a stupor lying on the couch. I woke up around midnight and dragged my butt into bed, not getting up until 9am Saturday morning. Saturday was filled with organizing and trying to clear the dull grey cloud covering my eyes. I had made pumpkin tarts and finished them off with whip cream, then made apple crisp tarts along with it. I also made cheese bread in the form of fingers, especially for my party, and threw together some pretzels and fritos for the gang. Barely remembering to eat lunch, I was a flying maniac trying to finish cleaning the house when the toilet decided to pose a problem. The flusher totally broke off and we were left without enough time to fix it and a house full of people needing to use it! Ah well, they endured and I apologized profusely. The next day was spent pampering my weather worn body and eating enough to satiate a horse.

So today is simply a matter of getting through the day without having to run to the bathroom. I should not have come in to work, but you know how it is when you're the only one here and there's work to be done. I have Aquasize planned for tonight, and not much else. I will be sleeping by 10pm. Promise.

We (the dog and I) had a really good walk yesterday after work. We went cavorting in the park and found some really neat pathways and hiding spots to play in. It was a wonderfully long walk, about an hour or so. Chewie was a regular private eye sniffing things out, and he waited so patiently for me to catch up to him so that he could show me what he found. At one point we passed a rather large log lying on the ground, and the fur on the back of Chewie's neck went up and he slinked past the log making sure that it wouldn't jump out at him. Hilarious!

My boyfriend decided that he was going to take me out for dinner last night, so we didn't have steak after all. That is on the menu for tonight. Instead I had a grilled chicken burger with potatoes and a nice talk. It seems we always have more to say to each other when we're out and about rather than sitting at home.

I was feeling quite sick yesterday afternoon, very naseus, and this morning woke up with an extremely sore throat. I say extremely because I exaggerate things, so really it's a small cold - at the moment. We'll see how it progresses. My boyfriend gets sick a lot more than I do, so he's watching when he's around me, and making sure that he's not getting too cold while working outside during the day. It's just so much easier for him to pick up viruses.

Anyways, today's plan: rye toast with peanut butter, a mug of coffee, a sandwich for lunch with some trix mix, and steak and cooked veggies and onions for dinner. Tonight's exercise will be another walk if the weather cooperates with me.