Saturday

It's Saturday and I have been up an hour or so. I love summer break. I get to sleep in. Bad part of sleeping in is I feel I have slept half my day away which means I stay up later to make up for it. I am so not a morning person but I don't like wasting my day. Another thing about sleeping in is I miss breakfast. By the time I wake up it is almost time for lunch.

Anyway, I have a big dinner planned for my father's birthday tonight. I need to get in some extra exercise to compensate for the food I plan eat. Yeah yeah yeah I know, eat in moderation....don't go overboard.....plan ahead.....whatever. It's my father's birthday and I plan eat what I want and drink what I want. I will be getting exercise since he can't walk up and down the stairs very well so I will have to do it for him to place his bets since we are eating in the Derby Club at the dog track. Last week it was the casino with my mother and this week the dog track with my father.....do you think I am part of a gambling family.....or is it just me since both those ideas were mine? Hmmmmmm

Well, it is about to rain so I will have to do my exercise indoors. No walking for me for now. I am sure it will blow over and I can get to the pool to swim some laps.

I was talking to a high school alumni yesterday about our journeys in weight loss. We have an alumni cruise coming up (it's our 10 year....okay so plus a few or ten or fifteen years) and everyone is busting out the diet plans to look good before all our old high school friends see us in skimpy clothes (we want to look like it was our 10 year reunion). Anyway, he stated he is taking an appetite suppressant as I am as well (him OTC and mine prescribed but do the same dang thing). In reading information on sparkpeople it states they help for the short term but in the long run can hinder you. After you stop taking the appetite suppressant you go right back to your old eating habits. Or maybe not habits but instead of tricking yourself into feeling full or not hungry you will feel hungry all the time again. I have to say I have experienced this. I tried going off the pills for a couple of days and I felt hungry constantly. Now it could me a mind over matter issue because I know I didn't take the pills to see the effect and my mind told me to feel hungry (its my mind that has put me in this situation to begin with. Stupid mind!). Who knows! I am going to discuss this with my doctor at my next appointment since she is the one who prescribes the pills for me.

Yesterday I pulled out the old measuring tape. I am supposed to measure myself weekly but I think that is too frequently. If I don't see results then I am going to cut the measure tape into ribbons and make confetti. So I think it is best for my sanity and the measuring tapes life I measure myself every other week. Anyway, in the past two weeks I have lost an inch off my waist (thanks crunches!) and an inch off my thighs (thanks walking and swimming). Didn't lose anything off my hips (thanks to nothing!). I should measure my arms but it is not part of the list......why isn't it part of the list??? I will have to add it because I can see/feel the difference. I see definition in my arms or it could be just the way the fat is now laying on my arms. But the shirt I wore yesterday the sleeves weren't as tight as before due to the "please don't let me smash my face into the carpet" exercise I do (aka push-ups) or it could be they stretched out in the wash. I am going with the exercise.

I have two things in the front of my closet that are my incentives. I have a dress I want to wear in two weeks for an alumni event. I also have a jacket that fits everywhere but my arms. When I wear it it makes my arms look like stuff sausages. So those are my two incentives for the short term.

Well it is time to break out the old pilates ball and do some exercises until the rain passes. Today is my core day but I know I have to throw in some cardio since it will be a disaster tonight if I don't. Yeah I still plan to eat what I want! I will not feel guilty about it (I probably will but if pills can trick my mind into thinking it not hungry then my mind can trick itself into not feeling guilty).

Happy Saturday!

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