Repeat Offenders ~ Sunday 1/8

Good Morning ROs...I think I can get out to go to the gym, but it looks like it is closed due to the weather. I will keep checking...if it is closed for the day, I need to do something here.

Lora - I am with you...blew it yesterday...just stayed inside and ate all day.Hoping to be more focused today. If anyone missed my post last night-- I am going to repost it here:


Oh I have such wonderful neighbors...we ended up with about 8" of snow I think and I looked outside and 2 couples were  shoveling our driveway. Another neighbor called while they were there to check on us and said they were going to offer to come with their snow blower. Later our neighbors across the street actually used their snow blower and cleared the STREET in front of our house and cleaned off one of our cars that was parked on the street (the other one was in the garage). To top this off, another neighbor sent an email yesterday and said he would be by to snow blow our driveway today (the ones with the shovels just beat him to it)...makes me feel so blessed - I hate to think about moving from this neighborhood but we need to find a house with a first floor master and a level driveway, etc.

Susie, so great that your neighbors are so wonderful. Sorry that you will have to move, however even after DH starts to walk again, I am sure that a house with a main floor master will be so much better.

Lora, not surprised that you snacked all day, sometimes that happens when you are in the house, you take little things and keep eating because you never feel truly satisfied.

I am tracking points. I went into my weeklies yesterday, but that was because I had a big dinner. 2 glasses of wine, larger sweet potato than I should have had, steak. used oil to saute mushrooms, onions, and spinach. That was OK, because normally there is a day like that that I go over my daily points. I also don't worry that I am up a pound this morning because I know the wine does that to me. I will see how I am by Tuesday morning, because that was when we started out family contest.

My DH is on his way to Orlando for a conference. Good thing it is not in Miami any more, we use the Ft Lauderdale airport for that, and fly Delta. I think they may not have opened up that terminal yet. I got up around 7, shoveled 1 path to the street, about 50-60 ft, so i could walk the dog. When I came back, I shoveled half that was behind my car, and then after breakfast the other half, so I could get the car through the 8 inches of snow. I will see if DS can come over tomorrow before or after work to clear a lot of the rest. It will be 58 on Wednesday, so it will probably melt it, or I will just do it little by little. When I got home, the garage door opener wasn't working, but luckily I had a key with me. After I opened the front door, I shoveled the walk to the front door. For some reason the snow wasn't that deep by the door.

Andi, I haven't made it in a while, but I used to make a sweet and sour cabbage soup using short ribs (flanken). Back in the day when my mother was still making seders, I served that at my seder because I wouldn't compete with my mother's chicken soup, which is fantastic. I learned her trick however, so make a pretty good chicken soup myself. 

Jana, sometimes the idea of a roast is just so good, but not as good as not cooking!

I am going to cook for myself, I have 2 Blue Apron meals I will make while DH is out of town, and will split between 2 meals. One of them is cod baked in parchment. The other is chicken breast with cousous and broccoli, so both can be quite point friendly. 

Robin - it sounds like you had some good activity yesterday with the shoveling.   Snow removal is hard work!  Good job!

Good evening ROs. I was on the go today until the afternoon when I came home and took a nap. I feel great now aside from the Sunday night despair, but hope I'll be able to get to sleep... I had so much fun visiting with DGS today - his new thing is to stand at his bookshelf and pull all the books out, lose his balance, and fall. OMG, he's imperiled at every moment and in fact has a shiner from a fall a couple of days ago. I was sitting right there when he hit his head - I think this is why some parents want to put their kids in helmets. And he isn't even walking at this point! I went to music class with him, DS and ex DH and it was a lot of fun. He loved it, sat in the middle of the circle for a lot of it just enraptured with all the goings on. Then we had lunch together, he had his nap, and I went home. Gave me some time to catch up with DS as well because DDIL had to work today.

So hard coming off an almost two week vacation. I've checked my emails and talked to my deputy so I am pretty much up to date but we have a few problems I am just not sure how to solve. One will be resolved when the finance director retires at the end of February, but meanwhile it's rough going. And I have a board meeting coming up I have to prepare for. Yes, life at the top is lonely, lol.

Lora and Jana, you both know I can so relate to the eating all day thing. I've done it for weeks and months, not just days at a time. I eat, feel sick, wake up the next morning resolved to never do that to myself again, and by the afternoon I'm doing it anyway. So frustrating. Makes me feel insane when it happens. What we do know is ultimately we succeed, over and over again, at turning it around, but why we have to go down that hole repeatedly is beyond me. I'll let you know if the cognitive behavioral stuff I'm doing right now helps and maybe I can share some of it with the group. It's been 2 weeks for me and if I break the 3 week sound barrier, I'll know I'm onto something worth continuing.

Susie, you do have amazing neighbors. How wonderful is that! I remember when I broke my ankle that the things people did for me without being asked would bring me to tears of gratitude. And btw, I don't blame you for wanting to change the PT appointment! 1 degree is too cold to anywhere. And doesn't your DH have to go in shorts? Way, way too cold to be out. It's supposed to warm up here by the middle of the week and hope it does the same for you.

My car goes in the shop tomorrow morning for 3 days to have a bumper dent repaired - the person who hit me's insurance is paying for the car rental and the repair but still a nuisance. Have to remember to take my E-Z Pass out of my car so I can use it in the rental.

Am going to make Anne's chili now, without the beans and using ground turkey. I use sweet potatoes instead as Skinnytaste suggests since they're easier on my digestion. I threw out the cabbage, feeling guilty but nevertheless relieved that I don't have to eat it. Ha.

Have a good evening all.

Andi, hope you can get all those problems solved, or they just straighten out. I know what you mean about just spending time with your DS. I just realized that myself when my DS came out by himself to return my car, and I felt bad because that was the day I had vertigo, and I missed the opportunity to really talk to him because I felt so terrible, then of course I felt guilty because I know I was cranky.

Lora, I am with you with getting something for your DH to save the kitchen mess. My DH can make 1 thing and the kitchen is covered with whatever from wall to wall. I can make a 6 course meal and it looks cleaner. 

I made myself a very nice low point Blue Apron meal today, and have the 2nd half set aside for tomorrow. I swapped out the full fat greek yogurt for FF, and also added some spice to the chicken. This was the first meal I have ever gotten from them that I thought would be too bland, but with my changes, which included mixing some of the lemon zest, lemon just, and garlic into the broccoli couscous mix, I am very happy with myself. Mainly because I never cook a real meal for myself. Also, my DH likes to eat relatively late, I usually have dinner ready about 7:30. Today, I was done about 6:45, ate, and have the kitchen cleaned up because I did some of the cleaning while the chicken cutlets were finishing up. 

Seeing as we are NY Jets fans, I am also keeping an eye in the Giants/Green Bay game, rooting for Green Bay.