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definite progress
Apr. 20th, 2008 09:55 pmtoday is day 17 of no alcohol. AND, i've lost about 4.8 pounds since starting calorie counting. pretty good progress if you ask me. and at this point, i've been able to up my calorie intake since i've gotten so close to my goal - as a result, i don't feel like i'm starving all the time. as for running, the boy and i managed to make it out on saturday the first weekend, both saturday and sunday last weekend, and saturday this weekend. we didn't run today because we just sort of ran out of time so we walked to and from bloomingdale's instead. (in total, we ran/walked almost 16 miles this weekend). to make up for no exercise during the week, i've been doing my best to walk home from work (about 2.8 miles) - this past week, i walked home 4 nights out of 5. :)
the boy and i have discussed it and unless there's a celebratory dinner for his sister's graduation, we won't break our current no-alcohol thing until the first day of the cruise, which is may 5. that means i have, at most, 15 days left of this torture. trust me, i will be counting down the days. ha ha.
today we went shopping and i'm almost completely done getting everything i need for the cruise. i even put on a number of bikinis and had the boy help me pick one out (which basically meant that he said he didn't find any of them particularly offensive). i've got all the dresses i need, a perfect pair of jeans, plenty of tops, and i *think* i have enough shorts (must switch out winter clothes for summer soon). i need just a few more things like more running socks and a pair of black ballet flats (which apparently no one has anymore), and i'm done. as in done, done. unless of course, i convince myself i need to buy more. which is always an option.
did i mention that i managed to tell the partner i'm working with about my cruise and he said, and i quote, "ok"? so i think that's a green light!
so overall, a very good weekend. now if only i could stop feeling horrible every weekend when it's time for the boy to go home, i would be better than peachy. okay, maybe horrible is an overstatement, but i definitely feel sad. i don't know when that will go away. at least i'm not as overly emotional as i was two weekends ago. but still, it's awfully hard.
the boy and i have discussed it and unless there's a celebratory dinner for his sister's graduation, we won't break our current no-alcohol thing until the first day of the cruise, which is may 5. that means i have, at most, 15 days left of this torture. trust me, i will be counting down the days. ha ha.
today we went shopping and i'm almost completely done getting everything i need for the cruise. i even put on a number of bikinis and had the boy help me pick one out (which basically meant that he said he didn't find any of them particularly offensive). i've got all the dresses i need, a perfect pair of jeans, plenty of tops, and i *think* i have enough shorts (must switch out winter clothes for summer soon). i need just a few more things like more running socks and a pair of black ballet flats (which apparently no one has anymore), and i'm done. as in done, done. unless of course, i convince myself i need to buy more. which is always an option.
did i mention that i managed to tell the partner i'm working with about my cruise and he said, and i quote, "ok"? so i think that's a green light!
so overall, a very good weekend. now if only i could stop feeling horrible every weekend when it's time for the boy to go home, i would be better than peachy. okay, maybe horrible is an overstatement, but i definitely feel sad. i don't know when that will go away. at least i'm not as overly emotional as i was two weekends ago. but still, it's awfully hard.
