Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.

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178 this morning. Not shocking after all the food yesterday. Hope it drops off quick so I can have a great weigh in this week.
 
Sending good vibes for a great weight in! I have never seen Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, guess I may have to check it out.
 
Thank you.
What an interesting afternoon. After work, on the way to the barn to ride, I stopped at the feed store as I was running low on feed for Elis. I went in bought it, came back out, got in my car, and my battery was 100% completely DEAD!! What?!!
There was a guy in a big truck next to me and I asked him if he would be able to give me a jump. Thankfully he had cables but due to the way you park at this store he just couldn't find a way to get close enough to me so his cables would reach. I couldn't figure out how to put my vehicle in neutral without having my vehicle running so we weren't able to push my car out of the parking space to make it work (of course I found it AFTER he had left). I thanked him for trying to help me (we tried for a good 10-15 mins) and got in my car to call my mom to let her know it didn't work. Suddenly *CRUNCH*. The guy who had been helping me had accidentally put his vehicle into drive instead of reverse and hit my car! Thankfully other than a small scuff there was no damage.
There was now another lady beside me and luckily she had longer jumper cables so she pulled round. However, neither of us really new how they worked. Suddenly a lady from the feed stored popped out and she knew how to do that so she set them up for us and POW I had power!! But since my battery had died even after I immediately drove it, that meant likely my battery was toast, so instead of going to the barn and riding, I had to go to Canadian Tire.
I bought this tire from Canadian Tire this last summer (2014) and so it was still under warranty, however I knew I was highly unlikely to still have the paperwork and if I did I had no idea where it would be. I went into Canadian Tire and got passed back and forth between Parts and Service. To be able to tell me if it's the battery or something else I would need to take the battery out but I had no idea how and they couldn't do it till tomorrow. And I couldn't get a new battery, go home and look for my paper work and come back with it for a refund because they can only exchange batteries, and not actually give me a refund. So I needed to either just buy a new one and suck it up, or try to go home and find it (which wasn't likely) and come back. After talking to probably 4 people, I finally got a really helpful guy who was just like 'oh, well we can pull the paperwork up on our computer, I just need your number' I was like seriously?! I've been here for like an hour and no one has told me this! But... I still needed to get the battery out for it to be of any help. So I borrowed some tools, google'd 'how to remove a battery' and off I went. Amazingly, I didn't electrocute myself and managed to get it out without an insane amount of troubles.
I started to carry the battery in, which is relatively heavy, and some random guy walking by offers to carry it all the way in for me. The guy who works there takes it back and says it could take up to an hour before it's ready. Ugh. But he tells me to come back in 5-10 mins as he'd likely know if it was actually dead or could be charged up. I came back and he said it could be charged. I was like then why'd it die and he said it could be my alternator (I was seeing bills piling up). Then just as I was gonna walk away to wait for it to charge he suddenly saw that the battery was in fact dead/broken. Thanks to him printing off my paperwork, I could then get a new free battery. I drag the battery back to my car, and some random guy offers to install it for me! I tell him no no, I can look it up on youtube, but he insisted that he would do it for me.
So after over 2 hours, it was finally done. But faith in humanity restored after 5 random people helped me out today.

That was my FB status for today, depicting my crazy frustrating afternoon. I got home and was just really glad I didn't eat my stress. It was one of those tiring days, and I've been feeling tired lately as it is.
I'm unhappy I didn't get to ride as well.
I finished off my cals at 1297.
 
Mystic, you have had it confirmed today that life is good & mostly people are good & you did not eat your stress. What a win, win situation!
 
What Cate said. Also: all that stress probably had your heartrate up pretty high for 2 hours so at least you were burning some calories ;)
 
Hey Mystic, wow that sounded like a really stressful day all round!! Glad you had people helping you and actually got your car sorted, sometimes people can surprise you!

What's the Calgary stampede?
 
The Calgary Stampede is labelled 'The greatest outdoor show on earth'. It's a massive rodeo, concerts, amusement rides, agriculture, etc. type thing that happens once a year for 10 days or so.

Today was a little tough. Have had a few 'just screw it, eat like a pig' moments. I mostly held off, went about 50 cals more than I had intended to.(Finished off at 1352) I went to the grocery store and got grapes (I had to choose between ok grapes and bad grapes, no good grapes :( luckily they tasted ok mostly), oranges, spinach. I also got a multivitamin. I couldn't find any iron supplement but thought I'd start with a multivitamin and see if it makes any difference to my tiredness.
I just barely forced myself out to the barn, but had a good ride when I did.
I've got the day off tomorrow. Could be a hard day since I've been having so many 'screw it' thoughts. Gonna have to try to keep semi busy.
 
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Good job for a tough day! Don´t worry about tomorrow too much, you only ever get one day at the time.
 
Screw-It thoughts can be dangerous, I know from personal experience! Do you have anything planned? I recommend you make some, even if your plans are "sleep until 10, watch TV until 1" etc. If you have a schedule, you can schedule your meals.
 
Thanks. I am leaving now (11:30) to go to the barn and ride and won't eat anything till I get back. That will push my meal times back a bit and hopefully make it easier to get through the day.

177.2 this morning. I'm not sure how my weigh in will go on Friday because I'm still more up on the scale than I thought I would be and my mom and I are going out for supper on Thursday.
 
Those screw-it thoughts are absolutely what get me into trouble. Screw-it, I only live once. Screw-it, I've already messed up today. Screw-it, when are you going to get the chance to eat/try that again?

You handled it really well though, only 50cals over!!!
 
Yes, it's a hard thing to fight.
Didn't do to bad fighting off the screw it thoughts. Had some thoughts just after lunch but did ok, organized/planned my food so I could have a bit of a snack in between lunch and supper.
Had an omelette for lunch, 2 granola bars for snack, spinach salad and 4 pizza muffins for supper. Not sure what I'll have as a small snack. Have about 100 cals left.
Felt pretty tired again today, feeling a bit less exhausted now, hoping to convince myself to still exercise.
 
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Depending on the difficulty they take between 15 and 40 mins to do and you get really into them.
I was so busy doing the puzzles I ended up not even eating my last snack of the day. So on a day I was really worried I would go over my cals I ended up under them at 1193. Now I don't like to eat that low but sometimes it just happens.
Unfortunate no exercise for today other than riding. Just didn't have it in me. Really need to do it tomorrow!
 
Online jigsaw puzzles are what got me through some of my college classes, haha. I have a real one going now, it's very good for my mental health.
 
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