The Good and the Bad

I forgot to mention: I talked to the doc about my struggles to lose weight. She informed me that since I'm on antidepressants, and a rather high dosage at that, it's just going to be hard. No advice on how to make it easier; no suggestions that I could just go off my meds; no empathy at all. I asked Craig what he thought about my ditching of the meds, and he said no way, jose. Of course, this is my non-drugged, 14-pounds-gone-in-a-week husband, who also prefers his wife mentally sound and only a little crazy, so he would naturally choose the option that is best for me, even if it doesn't make me skinny (sorry about the run-on).

We were in Fairview over the weekend, which included tournaments in Wolf Point. Food features there: pizza, nachos, popcorn, candy, rice krispies, sloppy joes. Nary a veggie in sight. We started our Saturday at Stella's with a heaping helping of breakfast because we knew it would be late afternoon by the time we had another meal. But even with just eating twice, we sucked it up on the points. BAD.

On Sunday, we had chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. Another two meal day that included dinner at Cheryl's, which is always guaranteed to please. She had out veggies and grapes - I ate a lot of them. Why is it that whenever I have that stuff in the house, it just goes bad but when someone else cleans and preps it, I eat it by the fistful. I should have someone come do that for me daily and maybe there will be more carrots and less crackers. Dinner was Cheryl's attempt to be healthy for our benefit - sweet and sour chicken and rice. It was very good although the sugar in the recipe negated some of the health elements. Grama made Craig a birthday cake - red velvet with cream cheese frosting. Three layers. And it was SOOO FRICKING GOOD!!!!! I had two and a half pieces last night. NOT GOOD. We left the cake at mom and dad's because it was definitely not in our best interest to have it with us.

We hit the gym when we got back to town. Craig was resistant but had a really good workout, which I will remind him of whenever he balks at going. I went to Activate America, and the instructor told me that I look like I've lost a lot of weight. Another woman said she was thinking the same thing! So I guess that although I've only shed three pounds, my body is obviously changing as a result of working out so much and including strength training in that. I feel like now that I know how to do more than just the elliptical I can accomplish so much more at the gym, or at least get a better bang for my workout buck.