wow…
Posted by Kristi on July 30th, 2007
OK wow…weekends like the one I had leave me just exhausted on Monday mornings (like can I please lay my head down on my desk and sleep-exhausted!)
Now that it’s lunch time, I have a little more energy and the jitteriness of the coffee is finally wearing off (I was feeling kind of high for a while, NOT good!) Wow, what a weekend I had in deed. It makes me tired thinking about it, lol. It was an absolutely wonderful and fun weekend. It started off great too in terms of my staying on track but somehow I just fell HARD off that bandwagon yesterday. Let me start with Friday though.
Friday after work, I ran over to the gym, did an hour of circuit training weights - it felt great! Rushed home, showered, changed and met up with some girlfriends for dinner. It was one of my best friends last weekend in Austin as she was moving back home for good now that we’ve graduated so we were “celebrating” all weekend long. We opted for Greek food, where I totally behaved and got a grilled chicken Greek salad, dressing on the side and didn’t even come close to finishing it. Yay for Kristi! Afterwards we went and saw “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” it’s hilarious - I totally recommend everyone to see it!
Saturday, woke up quite early and couldn’t go back to bed - I hate that. I ran a million and one errands (OK seriously, thinking about the weekend makes me SO tired that I just let out a HUGE sigh and 2 people in the office commented on it, lol…wow). Cut to the evening, dinner with the girlfriends again - Chinese food. I have a cup of Hot and Sour soup and an order of Chicken and veggies - pretty good again I must say! (At least I think so, haven’t looked up the points on the soup but I thought a cup couldn’t hurt and I didn’t even come close to finishing my entree). So then we go over to a girlfriend’s house to get ready for the night, go downtown and have tons of fun. Check off Saturday to being pretty good. I didn’t actually get to go to the gym but I did so much running around I figure that’s got to count for something - 1 point maybe? haha
Sunday - a completely lazy day because I was so tired. I know what I’ve listed so far doesn’t sound like a lot but I truly just don’t have the energy to go into detail what all we really did - yeah, I’m THAT tired (actually I also think I’m so tired because of all I know I need to get accomplished this evening and the rest of the week to prepare for my new roomie moving in this weekend). I met up with another girlfriend and we lazed out at the pool all day, soaking up what little sun Austin was finally thankful to get. Why is it that after being in the pool (or beach) just water for that matter, whether you swim laps or not - it makes you have an appetite? And why did I totally agree to Kayla’s idea to order pizza?? My rationalization was that I haven’t ordered pizza or had it in literally years - no exaggeration. So I tell her I’m down with the idea - we order a pepperoni (I pick off the pepperoni though - not a fan) I also prefer thin crust but yeah, that didn’t happen. It didn’t stop me from eating TWO slices though. Sad thing is I was pretty dang full after one but I still went for the 2nd one - I have no clue what I was thinking there. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, we ordered cinnamon sticks and I had like 4 of those! Uhhh, I did NOT feel good afterwards!! However did that stop me from going home, watching Shark Week (I LOOOVE Shark Week on the Discovery Channel) and pigging out on pretzels and dip two hours later? Absolutely not! Horrible!
I know it’s not good to beat yourself up for your slip ups but man, it just really sucks to know I did so well all week long and pretty much let it all go to waste yesterday. Fortunately though I am back on track today, have plans to do weight training AND cardio after I get off work and already have a healthy dinner planned out. And I’m preparing artichoke - I LOVE artichoke!! But yeah…that was my weekend. Sorry if the writing in this post is just all over the place but my head isn’t quite in it right now. But at least I got it out there - I’m holding myself accountable (maybe too much so) and I’m moving forward. And I also apologize for this whole post being kind of down - it’s just one of those days I suppose. I just need to keep reminding myself that “Every 5 minutes is a new 5 minutes!”