Day 6

Dec 27, 2010

First off, once again, YAY me for updating my blog on time.

Today was a good and bad day for me. It snowed a ton last night, that was what we had to deal with today.

GOOD: Since Carlos is sick, I actively helped with plowing and shoveling the driveway.  I didn't really shovel, but I found out I am very skilled at the snowblower. I actually did most of the driveway, and it was really satistfying. (I know I use that word a lot, but for the last 3 monthes I have had very little satistfaction in my life.)  It was very hard work, and I was super cold and sweaty when I came in, but I liked it. What I didn't like I'll put in the BAD section. While we were outside, I also broke out of my shell and walked over and asked some strangers if we could borrow a shovel (we broke ours). This is a very big deal for me. I usually feel a lot of anxiety when talking to new people. But today, I just did it. I was really proud of myself. We figured that the intesity of pushing a snowblower for 2 hours, is equal to about 1 hr of brisk walking.

BAD: Well, of course the biggest BAD for today was that after snow-blowing, my back was killing me, It felt like my back was on fire and made of cement at the same time. I took some muscle relaxers afterwards and knocked out for like 3 hours. Since, NJ was in a state of emergency I also didn't get to go to the nutritionist, and I didn't get to send in really important papers (I am cutting it super close now). I also did not eat well at all today. But, today, instead of over eating, I severely underate. I went out to shovel without eating breakfast, and it took a lot longer than I imagined in would. I came in and had a yogurt and took my meds. Since my back was hurting so much, I just really wasn't up to cooking or preparing anything. I figured I'd just cook when I woke up. Of course, I over slept and when I woke up we had to rush to the pharmacy to get my prescription. So, we just left without me eating. Just our luck the pharmacy was closed and we had to go to Wal-Mart. Carlos was hungry and he wanted to stop for at Burger King for dinner. I remembered what i had written yesterday about sticking to my willpower, but I was a little hungry so I got a 4 piece chicken tender. They were horrible. Super salty, dry, and just tasted so artificial. I ate about 1.5 before I just threw them out. At Wal-Mart I started feeling very shaky and like I was going to pass out. Walking around felt surreal and dream-like. I ended up getting a 6" chicken breast from Subway, which isn't too bad, but without thinking I ordered Chipotle sauce on it. I had planned on getting a low-fat sauce and I just spaced. I'm really not that upset about it because I had eaten so little.

I understand that eating too little is not a good idea, since it can slow your metabolism. I really never felt super hungry today until we got to Wal-Mart. I think eating those tenders stimulated my system to be like "YO! That's all? Oh, hell no. I haven't complainted all day, but now that you've teased me with those horrible tenders, I am pissed. Get me food or suffer." Now, I've eaten my sandwich and taken my meds and I just don't feel very good. I messed up my schedule and my rhythms, and tomorrow I need to get back in the saddle.

Check in tomorrow and see how it goes.

Nighties!
Nicole

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