I did basically no work today. Other than two telecons, one that I took in the car while I was headed to the grocery.
So, let’s get food out of the way first: I was within 5% of my goal on calories and fat, under on carbs, over on protein. So, that’s good. The slight imbalance is to get me good on the week, given the baking I did on Wednesday. So, all good there, still on track to be within 2% of everything on the week’s end.
Regarding exercise, I was in a similar mood tonight where I almost didn’t go. And I still didn’t do a full 40 minutes, but, I again recognized that pattern of behavior: I made an excuse and justification last night, given that I can skip two nights of cardio a week, and I was starting down the path of, “but travel …” in making an excuse to not exercise tonight. So, I did it if only to prove that I wasn’t quitting, and that even something was better than nothing.
What else did I do today? Besides grocery shopping for my trip, I prepared for my trip. An issue I have that I can’t stop / prevent is that I get antsy before a trip, especially a long one, in terms of preparing and making sure I have everything. That is most manifest the evening before travel where I’m hurriedly trying to transfer terabytes of files between computers and portable hard drives. I always under-estimate the time it will take and am up well past midnight, even if I have to get up at, say, 6am. Given that this trip is going to involve 42 hours of driving, I especially wanted to make sure that I had plenty of stuff to listen to on iPods and iPhones and iPads and iMGonnaHateThisDrive.
So, rather than do that tomorrow, I did that tonight. Yes … 6 hours transferring files, and I’m basically done, except for my 120GB work folder. Meaning that, tomorrow, I get to pack 2 weeks’ worth of food. ‘Cause I’ll be cooking at my parents’ and my boyfriend’s mom’s houses. While my parents have most things I need, except for fresh produce, my boyfriend’s mom has relatively little because (a) she lives alone, (b) rarely has visitors, (c) rarely cooks much herself, because (d) had gastric bypass surgery many years ago so can’t eat much. So, if I want to make her lettuce wraps, I have to bring the tamarind sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, 5-spice powder, etc. Which I’m fine doing if it means I stick with my diet.
‘Cause, I was down in weight again today, 213.9 lbs … that’s the lowest since June 04, 2019, meaning I’ve erased a year’s worth of weight gain. Now, there’s a gap between June 04 and July 08 2019 because I was basically on back-to-back travel, and that jump is 5.3 lbs: 211.7 to 217.1 lbs. So, it’ll be a few more weeks before I can say I’m erasing more than a year’s worth of weight gain. BUT, it’s still nice to be able to say.
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