to start a very busy three weeks.
My dad arrived this evening and will be here for 17 days. In eleven days my mom arrives. And five days after that my sister comes. It’s going to be C-R-A-Z-Y but it will all be worth it.
I had to pick up my dad at the airport so I took my nephew with me. He was out of his mind with excitement that Grandpa was coming. 
On our way to the aiport we passed an accident. It looked absolutely horrible and kind of shook me up. Of course, it was 15 minutes into my 45+ minute drive to the airport. On the way home traffic was still backed up (an hour and a half after the accident). It took us 1 1/2 hours to get what normally would have taken me 30 minutes to drive. I’m SO not used to that kind of traffic any more. I was sure the accident was a fatality but I just looked it up online and it doesn’t sound like it was that bad. I guess everything looks worse when the dust is still flying and people are running across the highway to offer assistance.
My nephew’s been BEGGING me to take him to “the car restaurant” for a while now but it’s kind of expensive so I always tell him no. I got him to ask Grandpa tonight so we got to go for dinner. Of course it was 7PM by the time we go to the restaurant, WAY past when I normally eat. Lately I’ve been doing the salad thing when I go out to eat because they usually come with raw ingredients that I can easily measure and note to come home and log. Well, tonight I splurged and got the rib and coconut prawn special. It came with six ribs, I ate three. It came with three coconut prawns, I ate one. I ate the steamed vegetables but not the coconut rice. I had water to drink. I did have one slice of the garlic cheese bread before the meal came.
I wasn’t denying myself anything by only eating what I did. I didn’t really want the rice so I didn’t eat it. I took one bite and it was OK but I truly didn’t want it. The coconut prawns were huge and super sweet so the one was perfectly fine for me. The ribs were also plenty. I did bring the leftovers home, I’ll probably have them tomorrow.
What’s weird is that normally I would have had no trouble eating the entire plate. I truly didn’t want the entire plate today. I made a conscious decision to choose what I really wanted. I made myself stop after what I felt was a reasonable amount of food and then I paid attention to what my body said. It said it was done. So, I quit.
When I got home tonight I got an interesting e-mail (interesting in it’s timing more than anything). I really would call it a God thing, but we’ll see how it pans out. I belong to a stamp club that meets every six weeks to stamp. Last month a lady was there that doesn’t come all the time. She ended up sitting across the table from me (which was a little odd because she comes with a lady that sat at the other end of the table and the seat across from her — which is where she’s always sat in the past — was open) and we talked quite a bit. We discussed coffee and agreed that a certain place downtown has the BEST coffee. We also discussed meeting for coffee and maybe going for a walk together. I thought it sounded fun but didn’t get her number or anything. Well, (OK that was a long way to get to this) tonight I got an e-mail from her that said she has “a new one on one personal training studio offering personal pilates, body sculpting, cardio programs and weight loss management”. I e-mailed her back to get more information. We’ll see. Right now I’m doubting I’ll be able to afford it but, you never know. I am patting myself on the back for responding to it and not assuming I can’t afford it.
I do have to share what I wrote in my e-mail back to her. I almost said I started a diet. But, I HATE that word and LOVE the phrase I did put “focused healthy lifestyle change”. So, that’s the journey I’m on, a focused healthy lifestyle change.
Sounds good, doesn’t it.
Oops, almost forgot to share my daily stats. I had to guess on the dinner stuff. I think I did OK with them, though.
Friday: Calories: 1,287, NQ: A
I did have to start a new diet in DietPower today because they had dropped my metabolic rate so low and were only allowing me around 983 calories. That ridiculously low so I reset it. I think only weighing in once a week was throwing their system off. But, it’s OK.
