I'm just messing around with my iPod in the event that I can't get my computer's head out of its USB. Or something like that.
You can ignore this or comment or continue shaking your head at how far I've fallen into the rabbit hole.
Oh, and the photo? I just wanted to see if I could actually add a photo via the iPod.
Carry on.
Otherwise, when this happens . . .
You'll end up doing this . . .
I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully on my restored computer and not on a nearly 7 year old laptop with a dead backspace key, space bar that only sometimes works, and a mouse pad that needs a hammer rather than a human finger or thumb!
Oh boy.
I was vain enough to think that any steps backward I took would not be huge steps. Ha!
This was not a post I wanted to write, rather, a post I needed to write. Just the same, I don't want to. It's been more than a month since I last checked in (that stops tonight!), and I'm feeling rather sheepish about that.
So why don't we just get to the nitty gritty and get on with it already?
Previous weight on 1/17/12: 334lbs
Current weight on 2/22/12: 340.5lbs
6 1/2 pounds gained.
I've GAINED SIX AND A HALF POUNDS in just a wee bit over a month.
We take a break from normal programming so I can beat myself with my brand new scale.
A brand new scale, I might add, that originally said I'd lost 30lbs, Gareth had lost 8lbs, Gaby had lost 10lbs and Geronimo had lost 3lbs. Then, I weighed myself again, knowing there was no way in hell I'd lost 30lbs, it then said I'd gained 100lbs! After changing the batteries it said I'd gained 8lbs, but Gareth's weight looked realistic (I can't recall how many pounds he actually lost), Gaby had actually only lost 6lbs (but for her long tall frame, that's not exactly great!) and Geronimo lost two pounds. His weight loss was probably due to the fact that we finally found the FURminator and I spent about an hour brushing out his coat.
Fur beasts aside, after checking in at my doctor's office, according to his scale, I've gained 6 1/2lbs. Thankfully my doctor was out of the office and I ran out the back door as quickly as I could, in order to avoid the grimace of the nurse making a note of my current weight in my chart.
This past month portion control didn't so much go out the window as the fact that lot of fast food and dining out, came in the window, and cooking homemade goodies for Meg while she was home. Some of those goodies - including spaghetti with cheesy garlic bread, made it into my mouth. As did more than a few trips to McDonald's, Wendy's, and Toxic Hell Taco Bell. There were also trips to Cheesecake Factory (hey, I don't even like cheesecake! But I do love their peach Bellinis!), Longhorn Steakhouse, and then a Valentine's Day dinner at Buca de Beppo that was overkill on a monumental scale! I've gone for convenience rather than quality. Easy rather than whole. In a nutshell, I regressed back into what was simple, quick, and processed.
But hey, I still have not had a drop of Coca Cola. Diet Coke? Yes. The fully leaded, fully sugared stuff? No way. I gag just thinking about it.
Combined with poor food choices, I've made it to the Y only once and that was to swim. No wait, I take that back. I've gone twice. I did one mile on the track and then the most recent time I went, I swam.
Tomorrow Gaby and I will be at the Y for as long as I can keep her occupied (she's off school this entire week) and then we're hitting the grocery store in order to replenish our produce drawers in the fridge, gather organic produce were we can find deals, and get our lives back on the right track. Not the fast track (Oh boy oh boy am I going to go off on "the fast track", in tomorrow's post! I'm super pissed off by some things I've been reading when it comes to speedy weight loss, lately, and it's being posted by an influential blogger no less!), but the right track.
