Category: Daily

Day 6

I tried the Crystal Light on the Go’s in iced tea today with a squeeze of lime–it was good! It tasted almost exactly like brewed tea, with Sweet’n’Low. Didn’t get to exercise, but I was running around doing laundry and cleaning so I guess that helps a little. I so wish I could go to a gym or at least have a personal trainer to be on my ass and work me out, but alas, I haven’t the fundage .

I weighed myself on Noey’s scale and it said 115…so I’ve lost a pound . I want to get to at least 104, which is what I weighed after I had Eenan. I was too scrawny before (when I weighed 95), so 104 will be my goal. I’m noticing I don’t crave junk as much as I used to and when I want something, I either limit my portion or don’t have it at all. Yay!

Breakfast:
• Strawberry/banana Cheerios w/ 1 C. milk

Lunch:
• Small serving of lasagna (leftovers! Too lazy to cook!) – about 200 cals.?
• 16.9 oz. bottled water with Crystal Light on the go Iced Tea – 5 cals.
• 5 vanilla wafers – 130 cals.

Dinner:
• Ham & cheese sandwich on wheat bread (with mayo & brown mustard) – 240 cals.
• Water
• Strawberry sundae crunch popsicle – 170 cals.

Exercise:
• None, other than cleaning and laundry .

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Day 5

I bought a pack of bottled waters (I notice I drink more when they’re bottled instead of having to fill a pitcher from the huge jug) and some of those new Crystal Light On The Go packets (raspberry and iced tea) today. I had one during lunch and have to admit they aren’t too bad. You can definetly taste the aspertame (sugar substitute), but it doesn’t taste horrible either. I managed to chug down the whole bottle in less than 10 minutes. And there’s only 5 calories, no carbs, and it helps with your water intake! If you can drink a Diet Coke, you can definetly drink these.

Breakfast:
• 1 C. of atole de arroz
• 1/2 C. chocolate milk

Snack:
• Less than 1/2 C. elote en vaso (corn in a cup): corn, mayo, lime, & chile

Lunch:
• Sloppy Joe: child size bun (150 cals.), sauce (less than 30 cals.), and ground beef (150 cals.)
• 1 buffalo wing dipped in ranch dressing (a whopping 80 cals.!)
• bottled water w/ Crystal Light On The Go, raspberry flavored. – 5 cals.

Snack:
• a small piece of cake

Dinner:
• 1 chicken wing (marinated in hickory bar-be-cue sauce, lime, garlic powder, hot sauce and Tabasco sauce)
• a few pieces of queso fresco
• about 7 tortilla chips and Pace Picante sauce
• 1 teensy strip of fajita
• water

Exercise:
• Crunches – 3 sets of 25

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It’s Back! My Site Is Back!

*kisses pixydust.net* Oh my God, I was dying yesterday. I *need* to write type down what I’m eating because for some reason it helps keep me in check, and my darn site was down ALL DAY! My host kept trying to bill me since Jan. 1st, and they still haven’t gotten the payment. I kept getting weird e-mails from them (with just ‘Pixiehost Billing’ in the e-mail and no subject line) and they never charged my credit card. Then yesterday, they suspended my site . I was being a pain in the ass, I know this, and kept posting on the forums and submitting tickets…but I was desperate! And I didn’t do anything wrong! I was so worried they were going to delete my site, too (because after 14 days of non-payment, they remove the site from the server). I’m just glad everything’s back to normal and they’re going to get someone to figure everything out with my billing issue. *whew*

So everything was cool during Jorge’s birthday on Thursday night. Our kids played with their kids and at around 10:30 (an hour and a half later than his bedtime), I put Eenan to sleep in one of the rooms and thank God he stayed asleep. I just chilled out with Maggie, her sister and her sister’s daughter and helped out with little things here and there.

John didn’t come over this weekend, don’t know why. I’m assuming it’s because he’s tired of me telling him to just quit talking to his ex. It could also be because I keep bugging him to eat right (because he goes hours without eating) and he’s prone to getting diabetes and skipping meals will only speed it along. I’ll never understand him.

Aunt Nora and Mom called a few days ago to let me know about problems they’re having with one of Gramma’s checks. Long ago, around 1995, she was receiving a supplemental check (or something like that) and they took it away when we moved. I’m still not sure why. Well, when Aunt Nora went to pay the nursing home, they tell her she owes $100-some because she’s not turning in that other check. She tells them Gramma hasn’t gotten it since ’95 and they say that she should be getting one. Aunt Nora calls Social Security and sure enough, there’s a check going out to Gramma, but no one knows where and they definetly are being cashed. So now they have to figure out who’s been cashing them and all that stuff. What morons. They were even telling Aunt Nora something about possibly having to “pay back”…hello? We haven’t received anything, why should WE pay back? Grr. .

As for our income tax, we figured we aren’t getting too much, because Mario didn’t work 7 months out of last year and of course, I didn’t work. We were planning to put some money on our property, but that’s not happening. And we definetly won’t be able to buy new wedding rings .

Yesterday was Bonnie’s birthday, so we all got together and ate cake. Yes, I broke down and ate 2 small pieces of cake, but I figured I’d been good, so I indulged. We flipped through Mary’s photo albums and had a nice time listening to stories behind certain pictures.

Mario has today off, but he won’t be having his days off again for a long while. All during Income Tax season. We went to JCPenny to get Eenan a new shirt for his Group Picture. While we were there, the boys found some dinosaur shirts that came with a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur and begged for them, so we got them matching shirts. They had such cute clothes in the juniors department…I hope I can lose a few pounds and buy some. The colors were all pastel-y and cute!

We went to visit Gramma for a while after that. I hadn’t seen her in 3 weeks! It was nice seeing her. All the physical therapy they’re doing with her is helping her out tremendously. She can actually pull her legs in front of her now and move her feet. Before, she always had her legs curled up to one side and it hurt her to move them. Mary and I were talking about that a few days ago and she said it’s the best thing that could have happened to her. I agree. We miss her SO MUCH but we’re thrilled she gets to socialize with others her age and she does physical therapy and gets her nails done and everything .

We went to H-E-B and picked up a few groceries, mostly for bar-be-cuing at Jorge’s tonight. Mario’s making his famous homemade Buffalo Wings. Must be strong and only eat a few!

Going to update my weight-loss log thingy since I missed yesterday.