Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 210.4 lbs.

I didn’t sleep well last night, probably as I am anxious about today for a lot of reasons. I have a very long day scheduled at work, full of clients and culminating in a 5:00 pm staff meeting. If the weather doesn’t trash half of it. A big winter storm is due and for those who live in the northeast, you are already getting it and know what I mean. Anyway, I HATE driving in it ever since last years car accident and the fact that I now drive a non 4 wheel drive car and one that I find horrible in the snow, despite having even put snow tires on. I won’t get out til probably 7:00 pm., and that’s when the storm should really be dumping on us.

Plus, tomorrow morning I have to be in extra early, and it is supposed to snow lots more overnight and into the morning commute. Does anyone live somewhere tropical or even in the South or West, and have a spare room for me?!

In addition to my work and weather related angst, I am chagrined again about my weight. I had moderate meals yesterday, including broiled chicken for dinner along with peas and an orange. On this morning’s radio news, I heard that chicken is injected with a salt solution that raises the sodium content very high, and that most consumers are unaware of this and are having their health jeopardized by it such that the government is pushing for label disclosure. So, now I am wondering, if despite my better intent and efforts to eat well, if once again, I may as well have nibbled on  a salt lick for dinner. No wonder I was SO thirsty all night!

Debra has suggested I try the 5 day pouch test, and I am thinking of doing this starting Monday. Weekends are harder as we play and eat with friends and such a lot, and especially this one, as we have plans to entertain here on Sunday morning for a brunch, and we are eating out with other friends on Saturday night.

So, let’s see if I have the fortitude to do the pouch thing, and hopefully address my flagging metabolism or whatever else has led to sluggish weight loss. Plus, and perhaps more importantly, doing this may help me restart better habits and remember the point of all this, I hope. And if I don’t  end up imbedded in a tree or buried in a snowbank before Monday even comes!