No Wangst This Time - Promise
So we're getting thoroughly stormed on up here. It's been blowing and pissing down all night, but the house is solid and the windows are new so there's nothing to worry about there. The power has flickered a few times but since all the major transformers in the area already blew and were replaced during the strain of the heat wave I don't think I have much to worry about.
So since it's Saturday, since David got shanghai'd into working, since Hilary was already scheduled to work, here I am alone on a Saturday morning. I've puttered a bit -- picked up, organized, straightened.
But now I'm hungry and there isn't much in the way of breakfast food in the house right now. I pondered braving the weather to drop down to WaWa (convenience store/deli type place) for a bagel melt. I recall that I've been eating a lot at WaWa lately, as it's close to both work and home. I've also been gaining weight like a madwoman. So I thought to myself, "Self, let's see what you've been eating from WaWa."
Like most establishments nowadays, WaWa publishes a calorie count for all their prepared foods on their website.
Apparently I have been eating 1500 calorie lunches have having no clue. o.O Color me shocked (not to mention no longer hungry). I mean, I always try to be conscious of what I'm eating and I knew WaWa did not count as a smart eating choice. but Jesus, a 750 calorie hoagie -- BEFORE cheese and mayo?! No wonder my ass has been expanding at an exponential rate (I exaggerate, of course... though perhaps not by much)!
So no more WaWa for me. Which today is fine, as it's rainging sideways and gusting to 50mph. Not a hurricane by any stretch, but still nothing I want to be out in. However it will be harder at work where there are two WaWas close by and someone's always running over there for lunch.
Honestly I'm sick of fighting this same 10 lbs. I want to be able to walk again now that fall walking season is upon us. Hopefully my foot and ankle will consent to this shortly. Right now though it's back to a carefully-counted 1200 cal a day diet for me, and hoping to drop the last 6 of the 10 lbs I regained this week.
God, why hasn't someone just invented a weight-loss miracle drug already? :p I'd take it -- even if every ten lbs. lost was a year off my life. Because they're the ones at the end, and who enjoys those anyway? ;p
So since it's Saturday, since David got shanghai'd into working, since Hilary was already scheduled to work, here I am alone on a Saturday morning. I've puttered a bit -- picked up, organized, straightened.
But now I'm hungry and there isn't much in the way of breakfast food in the house right now. I pondered braving the weather to drop down to WaWa (convenience store/deli type place) for a bagel melt. I recall that I've been eating a lot at WaWa lately, as it's close to both work and home. I've also been gaining weight like a madwoman. So I thought to myself, "Self, let's see what you've been eating from WaWa."
Like most establishments nowadays, WaWa publishes a calorie count for all their prepared foods on their website.
Apparently I have been eating 1500 calorie lunches have having no clue. o.O Color me shocked (not to mention no longer hungry). I mean, I always try to be conscious of what I'm eating and I knew WaWa did not count as a smart eating choice. but Jesus, a 750 calorie hoagie -- BEFORE cheese and mayo?! No wonder my ass has been expanding at an exponential rate (I exaggerate, of course... though perhaps not by much)!
So no more WaWa for me. Which today is fine, as it's rainging sideways and gusting to 50mph. Not a hurricane by any stretch, but still nothing I want to be out in. However it will be harder at work where there are two WaWas close by and someone's always running over there for lunch.
Honestly I'm sick of fighting this same 10 lbs. I want to be able to walk again now that fall walking season is upon us. Hopefully my foot and ankle will consent to this shortly. Right now though it's back to a carefully-counted 1200 cal a day diet for me, and hoping to drop the last 6 of the 10 lbs I regained this week.
God, why hasn't someone just invented a weight-loss miracle drug already? :p I'd take it -- even if every ten lbs. lost was a year off my life. Because they're the ones at the end, and who enjoys those anyway? ;p