Crazy Day 6

I know Howard's been MIA for a bit, but he's got a good excuse. He's a smidge under the weather and has a cold or allergies or virus or some unknown yet-to-be-classified disease where his stomach goes on the fritz and he feels generally crappy. Not to say I'm jealous of his stomach virus, but let's just say I think by the fact that he's eating next to nothing he has done far better than myself in this first week. I tried to have him breathe on me in the off chance I could catch said virus...

Today, I did the approach where I ate very little for most of the day, ate one heinously terrible massive meal and then haven't eaten since. I've never claimed to be one of those well balanced types.... and I barely ate anything because I had a doctor's appointment at 2:45 and I knew the nurse would make me get on the scale. (And since the scale was basically out in this hallway I could really only take off my sweatshirt and my shoes...as opposed to basically trying to remove all possible clothing... the nurse was nice, she took off two pounds for clothes and the fact that I told her I probably had at least a half pound of pee in me.)

The scale news was pretty much the same as I expected. Same as last year, but a good 20 freakin' pounds up from when I moved out here to sunny CA in 2006... you would think with this warm weather it would make me skinnier (since you can't really hide everything in bulky winter sweaters and cute coats)...but I think coming from NYC where I walked all the time to the driving culture of LA (and the fact that the rest of time my butt is planted in a chair in front of the computer--or the tv) it has negatively affected my weight... I'm sure it didn't help that once I got out here Howard pressured me to quit smoking... so there we have it. Those are my juicy (and somewhat bitter) rationalizations on why I'm up past my normal "skinny" weight. I'm in the medium weight range for me. I'm not skinny me. I'm not the super heavy me. I'm the somewhere in the middle-vaguely-dissatisfied me range...

Wow, I'm boring myself here... I think I'll go check on Howard...