It was spring break week at UNL so with no swimming and another
hour of daylight, I had high hopes to get outside after work. And with a
podiatrist appointment at 9:00 on Monday and no power pump either, I got to
sleep in on Monday. Now that’s a nice start to a week, especially when my
Mondays are such long days with knitting after work. The weather was
spectacular but knitting prevailed.
The weather was nice Tuesday too but I had the rescheduled knitting
at Anne’s with Kate after work so enjoyed a lovely night of lasagna, knitting
and chatting. Unfortunately the weather turned cold that night so working outside was off
the list for the rest of the week. Bummer but I had to keep
telling myself it’s only March.
The work week was fine. I had training both Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons and both were in alternate rooms I’d never trained in because our
training room was down for the count during the Payroll/AP remodel. Both rooms
had challenges but I did manage some modified training so felt good about that.
I was also the answer woman on Friday, doing a project that made my boss happy
and another dig into ancient data files for one of the accountants, who thanked
me in front of the boss. Golden, right?
On the diet front, I was preparing for another rotation but this
one with added fat. I’d decided to stick with my regular rotation menus but add
fat because what can you take away from a 600 calorie day and not keel over? So
after a stock up at Aldi on Wednesday, I was ready to start a rotation on
Thursday morning. With all the emphasis on fat I was short in the produce
department but cobbled together a salad with grilled steak, homemade oil/vinegar salad
dressing and a small avocado. Well, I ate the salad, which tasted like heaven
with the added dressing, at 12:30 on Thursday and at 6:30 that night was still
not hungry. I had to force myself to eat my swordfish and veg dinner only
because I didn’t want to wake up starving in the wee hours. So, with the added
fat completely stopping my hunger, it was now a matter of seeing if I would
still lose weight.
Besides the lack of hunger, Thursday evening was particularly nice. I had just hung up with
Andrea to let her know I’d be dropping something at the office on the way home
when my radio station had a contest. I figured what the heck so called and won.
It’s a $50 gift card to Defy Gravity, which I’ll never use but can donate to
the library for a summer reading program prize. Then I stopped at the farm
store in Wahoo in hopes of finding some of the Science Diet I’ve been feeding
my cats for years that has been discontinued. Not only did I find 2 bags but
they were $5 off. Nice to have a couple of months more on their regular food
before I have to find something else. Then I got home to find 3 packages, which
is always fun. I got some orange sandals I’d ordered (I tried some on in
Florida but they didn’t have my size so when I found orange ones on clearance,
I had to order them), a box of yarn from ebay (total score) and an herbal
supplement for sleep that Carolyn had recommended. Adding that it was too cold to be outside so I could have fun knitting
and watching TV with no guilt was the icing on the cake. Yay!
Saturday was the annual gardening conference in Council Bluffs,
Iowa that I go to every year with 3 other master gardeners.
I had purposely tried to choose different sessions topics/speakers than I
normally do and so enjoyed learning some new things. The diet was out the windorw though. I ate the bag lunch that
was included and had 2 hours of eating veggies in my last session, which was
from one of my favorite speakers – Elaine Fenner. She’s a magician with
veggies. It was a long but satisfying day and I had Sunday yet for
productivity.
I started Sunday with a weigh in and was thrilled to see that I’d
lost 6 pounds in 3 days of my rotation menus + fat. Now a bunch of that was water I’m
sure but still. I then went on to slam through all the chores for the week. It
was Easter but that’s a non-event for me. I usually try to spend it outside but
with a weekend’s worth of chores to get done (and the cleaning lady was coming
Tuesday so they had to be done), I didn’t have time. I did enjoy hanging out the
laundry and managed to sneak in some yarn dyeing that came out exactly how I wanted (I was aiming for the color of red maples about to burst their buds - so a combo of the gray trunks and bright maroon buds) but the rest of the day was all inside. I spent the
evening prepping all the produce in my fridge, ending with all kinds of healthy
things to eat all week and 2 big bags of scraps for Lori’s chickens. All in
all, it was a good end to a fun week and again, it’s still only March. I’ll get
outside to garden in April. I do love spring. Enjoy!
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