Project Skinny Day #1

In an effort to lose some much needed poundage, I have been trolling YouTube for fitness/diet/healthy eating videos.  I made many notes of things to try and decided that this day, August 3, 2010, would be the beginning of Project Skinny.

During my Pre-Project Preperations, I decided to try just a few things.  I bought some water, cashews, dry-roasted peanuts, Cran-apple flavor sticks for the water ('cause plain water = ick), green tea sticks, a small vanilla soy milk and some orange sherbet push up pops.

The orange sherbet is delish by the way.  ^_^

Day One however, is not going as planned. 

I dragged myself in to work at 11am accompanied with a few of my new healthy items.  I brought a serving size of cashews, two waters, a green tea stick and a half bottle of lemonade just in case.  Oh, and a piece of leftover pizza for lunch.

What?  Rome wasn't built in a day, ya know.

So I scarfed down my cashews first thing and then I tried the green tea.  All the YouTubers had agreed that it was the best thing ever and soooo good for you and soooo delicious.

Y'all, I don't know what they were drinking but it sure wasn't what I was.

Let me break it down for you.

You take a bottle of water, take a few sips and then pour a packet of the green tea into it.  My first reaction was that well, shouldn't the powder be green instead of a weird taupey color?  Then I shook and shook and shook that bottle of water to dissolve the tea and ended up with a bottle whose color was now, in my opinion, pee.

Yum.

So I braved a taste of it.

I am not sure there are words to describe it.  It sorta tasted like honey and lemon and some unidentified flavor that I am not very sure of except ick.

I've drunk about half of the bottle and it has perhaps gotten a teensy tiny bit drinkable. 

But it is definitely going on the No list.


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My Weekend is Full

So, Saturday we're taking clothes to Mom's friend in the hospital in Sioux City, Sunday we're going to the Sorcerer's Apprentice and Monday (Mom's birthday!) we are back in Sioux City for Mom's appointment with the neurologist.

Can we say busy?

Today I am going to, or rather attempt, vacuuming the whole apartment, mopping the kitchen and bath, taking out the garbage, cleaning out the fridge (protective gear needed) and washing the dishes from the fridge.

Hopefully I can talk my mom out of staying over on Saturday so I can get the rest of the cleaning done that I may or may not have slacked off on this week. 

These include but are not limited to: sheets to be washed, towels to be washed, comforters to take to laundromat, bathroom cleaned, kitchen curtains need to be hemmed, washed, ironed and re-hung 4 inches higher (umm, learn how to iron), change the kitty litter(!) and rearranging some cabinets in the kitchen.

Lofty goals I'm afraid.


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It's all a little blurry right now...possibly a good thing

Last night I looked in the mirror after work and almost scared myself.

Apparently I do look like I feel.  How nice. 

I am also dying of sleep deprivation.  Between the cats and my inability to stay asleep for more than two hours at a time (and oh, hey, did I mention that I also seem to have insomnia on top of the inability to stay asleep longer than two hours?), I'm surprised no one has died yet in a fit of insomnia-induced rage. Because believe me, there is rage.

Btw, did I mention that it's THAT time of the month?

On the bright side, today is my last full day of work this week.   Praise Jesus.  Then all the students will go away and all will be right in the world.

I am also leaving tomorrow for Des Moines for two days for a conference.  Every time I think about it, I get an image of me, F. and M. peeling out of the parking lot shouting, "So long, suckers!" to the rest of the staff as we leave them to deal with the end of semester craziness.

You know, I think that no sleep thing is getting to me.  :P


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Excuses

So.  The 30 Day Shred.  Not happening today.

I know, I know.  I said no excuses but this is a crazy week for me at work with my co-worker being gone and one of our students just left and well, I don't handle change well, okay?

The plan is to start it on Friday which is my day off and take it from there.  I would really like to still be alive when I go see Alice in Wonderland on Saturday.



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Seriously?

Yesterday, while at Wal-mart getting the necessities in life (chocolate milk and peanut butter and fudge cookies), I stumbled upon a never before seen part of the store (mostly because the store is being remodeled and nothing, nothing is where it is supposed to be).  I found myself in the fitness aisle and they had exercise DVDs for $9 each.  $9.  I couldn't pass that up so I bought two, Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred and The Biggest Loser Workout Cardio Mix.

Yes, I'm fairly certain that I am sick.  Especially as I actually plan on trying them.

I've been thinking about exercising for awhile now but it really hit me in February.  February is when we get a physical for our health insurance at work.  They take your pulse, blood pressure, weigh, measure and bleed you to death take a vial or two of blood.  Then they give you a little glossy card with all the above information (including a wonderful BMI chart) and send your blood back to the vampires lab so they can run tests.

I hate that glossy little card.  For the past two years, I have been listed as obese.  Okay, I wear a size 12.  And I am obese. 

So, I have decided that I am going to exercise so that next year I can tell that little card where to go be friends with the little card.  I will be starting the 30 Day Shred tomorrow (Tomorrow?  Really?  Are you sure?  Yes, Kelly tomorrow.  No excuses.)

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.  If, ya know, I'm still alive.


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I'm tired and I wanna go home ...

Home...
Home...
Hooooooome.


(Don't worry if you don't get the reference. Although you are missing out on one awesome John Wayne movie.)

Lack of sleep combined with stupidly forgetting my allergy pill is making Kelly Lynn not a happy camper. I am grumpy and also, snotty.

I am ready to go home to my nice warm bed with my nice warm kitties and perhaps not wake up until oh, April? How does April sound to you?

Alas, I have to go home in the fog, which my weather alert tells me is not just fog but DENSE FOG. Which means snail speed all the way home. Yay!

And there will be no bed for me when I get home. I need to fix supper, clean off the table, put the dishes away from Monday, put the clothes away from Sunday and Monday, and OMG CLEAN THE CAT BOXES! Seriously, two kitties should not feel the need to poop and pee as much as they do.

Then and only then am I allowed into bed. Where I will be smothered by Emme and Kisa. Kisa will sprawl lengthwise down my body (of which she is almost half of me!) and be dead to the world while Emme will pin my legs down and bite me if I move and growl in ALL CAPS because OMG MOM! WE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!

Let me just say that it is not a fun time when the alarm goes off.




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Okay....

... not sure why my background has pulled a runner.

And now it's back.

Weird.

And now it's gone again.

And back.

:sigh: