Coming to a Nursery Near You

popping..

According to the Wii Fit, I have lost 25 lbs since June 3rd.  I mention that to Jimmy this morning and get “huh”. 

Not “hey, good job!”.  Not “Wow, that much?”.  Not “really? You don’t look like you even need to LOSE 25 lbs.”.  Oh wait – that last one is what Brad Pitt said (in my dream).

I digress, as usual.

I sat here thinking – if I can lose 5 lbs a month, that’s not too shabby.  8 lbs. would be better, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, I suppose.

Then I got to thinking… hmm, is it really just cutting out the fat in my diet that is contributing to the weight loss?

So I tried to recall what I ate yesterday.  I started out with leftover spaghetti & butter w/Worcesterire sauce for breakfast, as it was handy.  [handy = it was still in the pan from the night before when I cooked it for my dinner, hence all I had to do was reheat it.]  That, with a cup of coffee with non-fat non-dairy full of sugary fake goodness, and we’ll call that breakfast.

For lunch, I had… oh wait, there was no lunch yesterday, as we were in the car most of the day.  We left at approximately 9:30, drove to a farm in Boonsboro, MD that had offered walnuts on craig’s list (for free).  So we went there and picked up 4 BIG bags of walnuts that turned out to be CRAWLING WITH MAGGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That fact apparently didn’t phase the women offering them.

As soon as we left there, we drove to a nearby grocery store for me to grab some quick breakfast for the kids, while Jimmy escorted the few maggots that had crawled ONTO THE RUG IN THE CAR out of the car. [sidenote: by the time we got home, TONS of them had crawled out onto the newspapers we’d put them down on – oh and god only knows WHAT else had leaked out and has now permanently stained the rug in the back of the van. SO MUCH FOR FREE!]

While *I* was in the market, I misread a few of the signs that say “10/$10” as 10/$1 – and had loaded up on those items – which, to MY defense, were placed next to each other and next to a sign that said 6/$1.  When I got to the register, I found that I was severely BLIND and then had to go put all that stuff back because .10 “dirty gummi bears” is a deal. $1 “dirty gummi bears” is not.

[as a sidenote:  have you ever had BACON FLAVORED PLANTER’S PEANUTS?!? OMG GOOD!]

Anyway, back into the car I went and we went to a beautiful park for about eleventy billin hours and I took lots of photos of my children romping through the leaves.  The leaves that, as it turned out, had creepy crawlies in them as well.

Then it was off to look at some houses that Jimmy’s found for sale that he wanted to take a look at. 

From there, we went to another grocery store so I could pick up some things that were on sale there, in order to get gas points to get gas with (saved $.30/gal off!), over to JC Penney to pick up an order that my mom had sent to Anthony for his birthday – BACK to the market to actually BUY the gas that we’d forgotten, then to super Walmart to finish the shopping, refill the water bottles, and ummm… who knows what else.

We didn’t get home till almost 4pm – so no lunch for mama.  In fact, I opened a package of crackers and had 1 – then Zachary snatched them.

Because I hadn’t intended to spend the whole day out, I hadn’t taken anything out fo the freezer for dinner, and we don’t have a microwave anymore (it died), so all I really had were some frozen Boston Market dinners.  I made those for the rest of the family, but because they’re too high in fat, I decided to make this steaming basket thingie for me – except those aren’t made for anything BUT the microwave  – but I steamed the steaming basket thingie and it worked.

I took ONE BITE of it, and Libby gave me big puppydog eyes because she didn’t like her Boston Market meal.

So I had about an ounce of a ham steak that I cut up into the frying pan, along with 1 whole egg and 1 egg white – 2 pieces of toast made it a sandwich.  That was dinner.

Yeah, I guess I can see how I would be losing weight, huh?

And all of it was OH SO NUTRICIOUS!

blah.

But hey! 25 POUNDS, people!!!

3 Responses to “Losing weight”