Hey, most of my alcohols come with a serving of fruit in them.
A glass of cider with Goldschlager....a pint of orange juice with a screwdriver...hey, whatever works.
Haven't been back to the gym in three days because I've just been covered up with Christmas obligations. Not only do I have to buy and wrap my own presents, my brother and father are clueless when it comes to gifts, so I have to advise them on their purchases and wrap them, too. Ugh. That's one of the things that bugs me more than anything else about Christmas...people who are too lazy to wrap their own gifts. I've been doing my own gifts since I was a kid, I don't know why guys think they automatically get some kind of free pass from doing it. The whole "That's work for womenfolk" mentality really sticks in my craw sometimes.
Oh well. I'll just count it off as a good deed. At least I didn't have to go Christmas shopping with my brother or mother this year. Both of them cannot go into a store without spending at least four hours shopping in it, while me and my father are strictly list-and-run sort of people. We race to see how quickly we can get our shopping done, because neither of us like crowds.
I haven't been doing great on eating, and since my computer's been down for about two days until yesterday (don't know what happened to it) I haven't logged food, either. Needless to say, my choices haven't been amazing. Haven't done too badly on the food front, but during the holidays I tend to drink quite a bit. No more than anyone else in my family, but they're not watching their caloric intake.
The worst I've been doing, probably (other than the lack of gym time) is in regularly scheduled meals. I'm really not crazy about eating any meal except for supper in front of people (it's a weird little OCD tic) and so it's hard for me to grab 3-6 small meals while there is constantly someone loafing around in the kitchen watching me. I'm sure the compulsion is left over from being a binge eater as a kid, when I would wait until no one was around, then sneak into the kitchen and steal food to slink off and eat alone. I've only been averaging about 1-2 meals a day the last few days.
Curiously enough, this hasn't hurt my weight loss. Well, my weight has stayed relatively the same (my average weight right now is 183-I'm convinced the earlier drop to 177 was from dropped water weight) but I've gone slowly down from 184 as an average to 181-182. Which is within the pound-a-week plan.
I'm going to try really hard to be better about the whole eating thing, but the eating in front of people who are not also eating is really difficult for me.
I'm probably not going to hit the gym again until the day after Christmas, just because I'll be super busy between now and then and frankly, I need a holiday. To make up for it, I'm planning to start my 2x a day workout routine when Christmas is over, because the one workout a day is getting a little too easy. (In intensity, not habit.)
Instead of the gym for the next few days, I'm going to try incorporating some of my "boot camp" moves (lunges, push-ups, crunches, etc...) into my daily routine, so I can at least get some kind of exercise, and so my body can start getting acclimated to calisthenics, because I'm considering making one workout a day (my morning workout) a combination of jogging and calisthenics, while the afternoon/evening workout will be treadmill cardio and weight machines.
Damn all this fine holiday fare hanging around, too. What's a gourmand to do?
Food today:
- prime rib sandwich, lean and trimmed, on whole grain bread
- handful of Cheetos
Note: I actually made a bowl of them, but I could only eat a few before the grease and processed cheese started making me really, really queasy. I think it's a combination of change in taste preferences (all those veggies and fruits are paying on on the palate!) and a nasty hangover...
- 16 oz. sweet tea