Instantcrazy's Journal, 02 November 2014

I have officially hit a plateau. UUUUUUGH!!! The scale has not budged an ounce for a week. I was seriously starting to think my scale was broken. Every time I stepped on it no matter what time of day it said the same thing. I finally grabbed my fat cat and weighed her with me JUST to make sure my scale was working. Note to self...start fat secret account for fat cat. SHE WEIGHS 14 lbs!!

I suppose I should be glad the scale hasn't budged because I've definitely not been doing anything to HELP the scale drop. In fact I'm surprised it hasn't gone up. I have so much Halloween candy left. Last year I had so many trick or treaters I had to cut into my own stash. This year the girlfriend and I bought about 5 or 6 bags. THEN when I was outside working on the decorations one of the neighbors said she was going to be in St Louis during Halloween and did I want her candy. She had gone to Sam's Club and bout a BIG box of assorted candy and a BIG BOX of Cheetos. Well heck yeah I wanted it. That way I have enough for all the kiddies. Then hell froze over and it got windy and nasty, and I only had 42 kids. In the beginning I was giving each kid 2 or 3 pieces. At the end I was giving out 2 or 3 handfuls, and I'm still stuck with a TON! It's just sitting there taunting me. So to get back at it I eat it. HA! Take that evil Halloween candy!

Feel like I'm in recovery! Just ran non stop last week (NO, I wasn't actually running for a whole week, I walked speedily once though). I worked my butt off this week and now I'm crashing. Friday was my day off and I didn't get out of my pj's until 1 PM. I feel like if I could just sleep for a week it would all be better. Maybe if I could just sleep until 9 even...

Saturday when I got off work I made an awesome pink bean dinner out of pink beans, corn, peppers, green olives, sofrito, and spanish rice. As some of you may know I do love my pink beans. It's pink food people! There's not enough pink food in the world other than cotton candy, and the pizza that one kid puked up in the middle school cafeteria, and there was definitely way too much of that and I will never forget it, god please let me forget that someday, I will probably get Alzheimer's and won't remember to chew food before swallowing, but THAT I will remember.

I finally made it to the doctor. I learned it's best not to sit where you can see other patients getting their vitals taken. They opened the door to the exam area and I got to see a small boy throwing up (this journal has a horrible theme). Then just for fun they sent same small boy back to the waiting area with a baggie. O_O are you kidding me? The nurses were walking around him with a mask. JUST KILL ME NOW! When the girlfriend and I got home we stripped at the door put the clothes in the washer and showered off all the germs. When the receptionist was checking me in they asked if I had been to west Africa. Wow. The Dr. said the dizziness was my allergies. She said my Eustachian tubes were clogged. Good times. She gave me a nasal spray. Hopefully this works. I really don't want to have to go back to the hall of plagues. Weird side note, because I haven't put enough weird side notes in this journal already, when I was picking up my prescription the woman in line behind me had the same first and last name as me (well almost one of us has son at the end of the last name). We both even spell it the right way. Very strange.

OMG I'm watching a show called "Hungry Games" right now and they said in a Duke University study if restaurants put a salad or other healthy item on the menu people were twice as likely to order fries even if it's not what they came for. It's called vicarious goal fulfillment. If given the option to consider acting in a way that will achieve a long term goal such as eating healthy to lose weight, it makes your brain feel like you did. STUPID BRAIN I KNEW YOU WERE OUT TO GET ME!! YOU AND THE HALLOWEEN CANDY CAN TAKE YOUR STUPID LITTLE SHOW ON THE ROAD! evil. eeeVIL!! mumble. mumble. mumble.

Oh, I changed my picture to show my Halloween decorations, at least what was left of them before the wind blew some of them away. I just wasn't home at all in the daylight to get a good picture before the winds came. Please notice the ghosts are about to blow away, but the yard full of leave is just perfectly content not to go over to my neighbor's perfectly manicured sod.

176.2 lb Lost so far: 37.8 lb.    Still to go: 36.2 lb.    Diet followed poorly.