KirstenL4W

I’ve been a busy bee lately. I’ll be spending an obscene amount of time at work this week, but at least I will have Friday off due to the holiday. Because of the busy week coming up, I’ll be making a list of quick, easy to prepare meals for the week and doing my shopping today. I usually grocery shop on Mondays after work, but since I’m working something like 10 hours tomorrow, I’ll be too brain dead to think about cooking. Today I will be getting everything ready for Mister to throw some pea soup into the crock pot so that we can have a healthy and delicious meal ready when I come home. Tuesday we’re going to see Penn & Teller. We were supposed to go last week, but Mister wasn’t feeling very well so I was able to change the tickets. Thursday is another long day for me at work - I’ll either cook something in advance or think up something that only takes 5 minutes to make (panini sandwiches, maybe?)

I’ve been looking for the right things to organize my desk at home. In true Gemini fashion, my desk at work is super organized, but my desk at home is super messy. Mister and I bought new desks when we bought the house, and I like them ok (kinda not my style) but they don’t have any drawers to put Stuff in. I bought some small drawer units to go on top of my desk, but they only fit small things in them. Last week when we were out shopping for a new chair for Mister, I saw a really pretty aqua file cart - it has one file drawer and one smaller drawer. And it’s aqua - my favorite color. Well, the display model was the last one they had at the store, and we were informed that we couldn’t have the floor model, and that they were on backorder and the store was not allowed to order any more. Boo. Yesterday when I was out shopping I stopped by a different branch of this store, and they had my file cart. They also sold me the floor model since they knew it was the last one and they weren’t getting any more in. And they told me that the other store sucks. I’ll be working on the desk mostly next weekend, when I have a 3 day weekend, and I’ll post before and after pics when I’m done.

I weighed in at WW the other day. I’m starting to get fed up with it. I don’t even really know why I signed up for it again. I HATE tracking points - hate it. So I don’t. But I also know where my comfort zone is, and even though I don’t write that crap down, I have a pretty good idea of where I’m at for the day points-wise. But my weight was up for the week. I’m almost ready to stop going. I didn’t get so heavy because of what I eat. I got this way because I took Paxil - my weight started going up very fast when I was on it, and it stopped going up when I stopped taking it. That’s it. So why am I focusing on what I eat to make me lose the weight? It’s not working. It’s not going to work. I cook at home and try to eat as many unprocessed foods as possible. I eat far more fruits and veggies than I used to, and far less junk. I don’t eat to where I’m full; I eat to where I’ve had enough. The magnesium supplement I take has pretty much killed my cravings for sweets. So how is tracking points and shit supposed to help me? It won’t. If it was going to, the changes that I’ve been making over the past year or so would have done more, but I’ve only lost about 5-7lbs through those changes alone. I need to try something else. Yes, exercise. I keep intending to do that more, because I know it will produce results, but by the time I get home from work I am so done for the day that it’s all I can do to cook dinner, and the only reason I do that is because I’m hungry. I’m just tired of the anal-retentive approach to what I’m eating that WW takes because it’s really not helping me.

Ok, enough of the rant. I think I’ll go make some eggs for breakfast and get on with my day.

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