Things are starting to fall apart. No exercise today, and tonight I ate a greasy veggie/cheese sandwich for dinner at Waterloo Icehouse, a Krispy Kreme doughnut and a chocolate chip cookie as big as my head. Oof.

In addition to the two new dogs living/peeing/pooping in my house, I now have my two brothers-in-law here too. Hopefully their potty habits are a little bit better than the dogs. Keep in mind, we don’t have a guest room. Mr. W’s in the shed blowing up an air mattress. I do not like this arrangement but am trying my best to keep my big yapper shut and not cause any trouble. I am being driven bat-shit, and my house smells like a barn.

Have I mentioned I’ve been asked to design a program for a funeral that has been planned, and the poor woman isn’t even dead yet?! This family is c-r-a-z-y!

Blair, eating one chalupa is not what I’d call a huge blunder. I like how they give foods a grade on that site—kinda cool—and kinda cruel.

So today the Weenies got a couple of house guests, Jake and Pepe. Mr. W’s aunt left them with us so she could stay at the hospital with her mother. Let’s just say I’m on the edge. I have no idea how people with multiple pets do it. Or children—sheesh!

My eating was good until I had a bowl of cereal I forgot to record, then proceeded to over-eat. Whatevah. I’m happy I did a little of a kickboxing workout on the fitness channel this morning. Holy shit I’m out of shape. I could only do about 20 minutes at low intensity. Those people are in-freaking-sane.

I’m particularly excited about one thing I did today—I outsourced something! It’s not that I’ve never hired out contract designers, but this time I hired someone to do the boring cutting and pasting for a job so that I could work on design instead. That rocked. I’m looking for more things to offload as we speak!

Well, time to call it a night. I was up until 3:30a.m. designing a brochure, and now I’m paying for it with the crossing of the eyes. Later gators!

-iw

Good morning all! Hope you had a nice rest (other than Jeremy).

J- Way to kick ass! What bootcamp are you doing? I’m usually not a big group exercise person, but I really loved taking that core class on Sunday with friends—they were the inspiration I needed to get off my ass and show up!

I’m still thinking of asking my friend to develop some sort of training for me/us if we can find a good, central place to meet. Does anyone have a particular day of the week/time that would work best? My preference is day/morning during the week, although I know that would leave most of you out. Maybe a weekend workshop? Evenings aren’t going to work for me, but I’d be happy to talk to her about offering two classes—I’m sure she’d be interested.

So… today started out pretty well, although I’m a little behind on work. Had a good breakfast. Thanks to Cathy I’m totally addicted to Laughing Cow lite cheese—YUM! Here’s what I made for breakfast this morning if anyone wants to try it. You could have two tacos and still be under 350 calories. It would also make a good afternoon snack.

1 Kangroo Whole Grain Sandwich Pocket
3 Egg whites scrambled with non-stick spray
1 Wedge of Laughing Cow Original Swiss Light

Spread cheese inside pita, insert eggs. That’s all! Very satisfying. The cheese has less fat than egg yolks, yet gives the taco a creamy, rich taste.

Calories: 163
Fat: 3
Fiber: 4
Protein: 19

With half a ruby red grapefruit:

Calories: 223
Fat: 3
Fiber: 6
Protein: 19

Well, if I’m going to get anything done today I’d better get going. I’ve started a goal-setting/accountability group called “Weenie’s Warriors” that meets every other Tuesday 10:30-12:30 at Whole Foods downtown if anyone would like to join us. We meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.

Have a great day!

-iw

And for your viewing pleasure… This is what’s by my desk right now:

You guys are my heroes! Reading your posts makes me smile. I’m so grateful we’re all in this together.

Cathy- I am SO proud of you for going on that walk, making healthier meal choices and taking that core class. I know how challenging this is for you, and I’m tickled to see you step outside your comfort zone and actually have a little fun while doing it.

Blair- You must be doing something right, because if I were you I’d be way more stressed than you come across in blog-land. Broken pipes and roof climbing like it’s no big deal. Wow. I was so excited to see you rockin’ the core class on Sunday. I know that was stressing you out, but hopefully now that one class is behind us you will feel more comfortable. I know I do. I’ve got 2:15 Friday at Summermoon penciled in for coffee talk. (Anyone else interested in Flylady and who can make it is welcome of course.)

Andrea- I am so sorry to hear about you FIL. I’ll keep you and your family in my thoughts. I can totally relate to digestive issues. As a matter of fact, the instructor of our core class, Christine Tusa, is putting on a free seminar with a nutrition counselor about women’s digestive issues. It’s called “Not tonight honey, I’m bloated.” :-) I’ts on Tuesday, Jan 19th 6:30-8:00pm at the People’s Pharmacy on S. Lamar. I know it’s far for you, but just thought I’d let you know. (It’s the same night as Social Media Club.)

Jeremy- You’re so kick-ass. I’m scared of bootcamps, and here you are right in the thick of it. How was it? I’m curious and terrified. Your weight loss is truly impressive, and I’m glad to see you following your own advice and not letting the day to day ups and downs get to you. I look forward to reading more on your blog. Be sure to post a link here when you’ve written more posts.

Finally, me. I had a pretty good Monday, actually. Got my bootie to the gym and ate healthy meals. The one bummer was Starbucks—thought I’d be good and try a skinny decaf vanilla latte—then realize halfway through that it had artificial sweetener in it which gave me a migraine. (Boo.) It’s gone now, so no harm. Back to my decaf espresso…

Although I was able to stick with my daily schedule for the first half of the day, things kind of fell apart this evening. For example, I should be in bed right now, and I’ll be moving that way shortly. I’m having anxiety about tomorrow, because it looks like I won’t be able to make it to the gym in the morning. Too much scheduled. Blair- I’ll talk to you more about the scheduling thing later, but I have some thoughts/questions.

Since I’m not sure about tomorrow, I’ll commit to walking little Wally around the block so at least I can take a break and get outside. Maybe I could do a few pushups and lunges too…

In other news, I’m having a bit of a professional crisis which has me a tad flummoxed. I’d love to talk about it another time with anyone who might be willing to give me a little feedback, but it’s kind of off topic so I’ll not dwell on it here.

So, I hope everyone has a good night and a great Tuesday. Talk at’cha later!

-iw