Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 212.5 lbs.

Geez I am in pain today. I have cramps and ache all over, have been weepy, miserable, irritable (just ask Tom!) and grumpy. If you haven’t figured out why yet, you’re probably not a woman.

I didn’t wake until very late for me, and it is 8:30 as I write this and I haven’t worked out and may actually choose not to today. I’m not sure if it will help get the kinks out, or kill me.

Last night, just a few hours before we were scheduled to go, Nancy called and cancelled our outing as her son came home sick from school and given his history with Crohn’s disease, she is understandably more watchful and concerned if he is symptomatic. Although concerned for him, I must admit that given my own malaise, I was relieved to have the night off. I’m sure that we will reschedule and enjoy ourselves in the future when the time is right. So, I also dodged the P.F.Changs bullet, although one kind reader wrote in a link to their nutritional info. and I had taken some time to prep myself for acceptable choices once there, and figured I could eat pretty ok after all, armed with this knowledge. I guess that I’ll have to revisit this when we really do go.

Actually, because we had been of the mindset to eat out and have little food at home, Tom and I decided to order from Pizza Hut and eat it at home like we did with company last weekend. I got a crispy crust pizza with mostly veggie ingredients (and some chicken), ’cause their special allows for any crust, size or style of pizza with any number of ingredients, for only $10. So I loaded up on the veggies, and did eat 2 complete slices before the night was out. Tom ordered a 2nd pizza becasue he doesn’t like the thin crust type, and ate like half of his…but that’s another subject!

So…it is possible that I ate worse at home than I might have out, but as I busied myself with household projects and didn’t feel great, I otherwise did not eat too much yesterday. Just my nearly daily requisite nuts, some cheese, and a banana. I was likely lax on ensuring my protein requirements etc., but as I am usually pretty focused about this and I figure that there is good protein in cheese, nuts and some of the PH toppings, I may not have come up too short. And, somehow I managed to lose…although I take this with a grain of salt, because I often hover endlessly around a weight before it is “real” anyway. It could just be that I drank less, too.

Given that I am bloated and pre-menstrual, I would actually have expected a weight gain at this time. It should be interesting to see where my body takes me these next few days. Tonight we are getting together with Barb and Rick for dinner somewhere (am awaiting word - hi Barb!), and hopefully will all laugh away a few more pounds as this tends to be our thing! Hopefully too, my malaise won’t put a damper on things for me or for anyone else - but perhaps with this “warning”, we will all be advised beforehand that I am loaded for bear, and “it’s not my fault!!!”