DIET
The diet hit a few snags…the biggest of which is my TOTAL frustration with some of the exercises. Of course, the video demonstration makes it look SOOOO simple, but there are one or two I just cannot do. I have enough trouble trying to breathe correctly while I do them, and one is purely breathing which makes no sense to me.
The second snag is that the food is just soooo bland!! Tom can continue to eat anything (repeatedly) and I am just not cut out for either totally bland or the same meals (egg whites, chicken, rice, fruit) meal after meal after meal, day after day after day.
The third and final snag is that today we sort of fell off the wagon. We innocently decided to “splurge” on sushi for lunch—technically something we can eat (rice and fish), but the splurge came with the salad (lettuce okay, ginger dressing not so much—I forgot to ask for it on the side) and the miso soup. And we ate more than we should have. But still not TOTALLY awful. (And everything was soooooooooooooooooo good!) We decided that if we did that once a week, we could suffer through the rest of the week. (Tom, bless his heart, is trying to make this as easy as possible for me, because he knows I am about THISCLOSE to quitting and going back to low-carb.) So we went home and he took a nap and I watched some TV and we got a phone call about 4:30 saying “Where are you? We thought you were coming!” CRAP! We had the dates wrong—we were missing our friends’ BBQ at their new house (not friends from the neighborhood—friends from back in Virginia when Tom was as OCS). So it was off to Hampstead—a 50-minute drive—where we entered to find chocolate brownies, cheeseburgers, fried mushrooms, cheese and crackers, hot dogs, corn on the cob…basically nothing LEGAL to eat! So we picked at a few things and were in heaven at the TASTES…but ate too much (compared to what we normally eat) and just about got sick.
NEW HOUSE
We close this Friday. We close on our current house Wednesday, so that’s when we (meaning Tom) will start moving boxes into the new garage…so we can hopefully have everything done by Saturday. What am I saying, Hoping? We have to have everything moved out by Saturday at 3pm because that’s when the carpet cleaners come!
We continue to pack. The garage is full of boxes and the guest room is about full. We have packed so much but there’s still so much stuff left! Most of it is big-ticket items like dressers and beds and desks. I can’t fathom us getting it all done, but Tom seems to think we can do it. Of course, it’s supposed to be 98 this week, plus humidity, so it will probably feel like 115. Lovely.