Putting off pounds with Poetry

Let’s get right into it.  I got back from my trip on Tuesday night and I know its Friday and I’m just logging on.  Where the heck have I been?  I’ve been dreading logging onto to buddyslim.  Not because I gained 2.4 pounds, I expected to gain 4 pounds on this trip, but because Buddyslim puts me in a tense place.  Focusing on weight loss is hard and very stressful.  Anyone who says differently is lieing.  Working as hard as you can without seeing results, is stressful.  Reading blogs, comments, and messages about crazy ass topics, crazy ass diets, whining, bitching, false justification for harmful methods without being my normal blunt self and speaking my mind is stressful.  Its hard for me to contain my raw emotions or opinions and not hurt peoples feelings.  So these few days that I have been back from my trip that I didnt touch my computer for Buddyslim has been a stress free period.  Damn that feels good.  BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT….

Being on Buddyslim, competing with the team, jib jabbering with the friends I’ve made about weight loss or life in general, reading the success stories all aid in my success in this journey.  Since I have not been on Buddyslim I found that I’m not as motivated to do the workouts or eat properly.   Its like when I read all those crazy things that put me on edge it gives me the motivation to keep pushing forward the right way.  Being on this site is such a catch 22 for me.  So what do I do.  I logged in, read up on some messages and instantly I was back in the groove.  I’ll take the people not liking my bluntness!  So watch out, I’m back!

It’s cold in St. Louis, its been 45 degrees and raining (apparently since I left town Oct 7th).  Before I left I noticed my heat wasn’t working properly.  I thought maybe because it hadnt been on all year that it was just taking a while to heat the house up but when I got back from my trip still was cold in the house.  My mom ended up borrowing a space heater from a friend and slept with the oven door open.  My furnace is electric so the pilot light is not out.  When I turn on the thermostat you can hear it click on but nothing comes out but cold air.  I’ve been using this as an excuse not to work out.  Its too cold outside and too cold in the house.  I ended up buying a couple heaters myself.  Today I’m going to make an attempt to change the thermostat.  When I moved here four years ago I had this same issue.  I called the gas company and they said it wasnt the furnace.  So I went on youtube and found a video on how to change a thermostat.  My wires weren’t marked and I was changing an old 2-wire one that had been in the house since creation with a new digital one.  Once I changed it the heat worked.  I expected it to last longer than 4 years but Im hoping that it will correct the problem again.  Then I cant use the house is too cold as an excuse for not working out.  I dont have any other excuses so hopefully this will help kick me back into gear.

And I’ve been wondering….how many calories are in a fruit fly?  I mean it is a fruit, isnt it?   Well even though its cold in this house while I was gone a couple of fruit flies managed to get into the house.  I didnt know it until I was taking a large gulp from my glass of cranberry juice and noticed one trying to swim to the edge as a place the cup down.  UGGGGGGGGH!  I almost drank a fruit fly! Hopefully I hadnt already downed one.  I wouldnt even know how to log that in to my calorie count.  It may be full of protein though.  I shouldve just chalked it up and took one down.  Eww, yuck, blah blah!  No not for real.  That would have been gross!  A word of caution:  check your beverages for foreign objects before you drink.  While I was in Miami, I was sitting at my favorite restaurant and I reached for my virgin strawberry daiquiri (yes virgin I don’t drink), sitting high on the hog on the tip of my straw possibly having a grand ole’ drink himself was a housefly.  What the hay!  I didnt expect flies to be part of my weekly diet!