Day 12: Getting It Done !

 

This picture will continue to be the header of my blog until I'm able to establish some better habits. I originally wrote "good habits" but I'm trying to stay away from negativity - so things are not "bad" vs "good". How about good vs better for positivity !

It was 34 degrees when I got up this morning and with a forecast high of 37, it wasn't going to change much ! Temps in the 20's and snow are back in the forecast this week. I knew winter wasn't done with us yet ! By 5:30 it was 33, so I don't think it warmed up much during the day. Low for tonight is 29 so it'll be another chilly morning !

Breakfast was waffles (160 calories) with sugar free syrup. I didn't eat again until after 3, when I had a pepperoni pizza melt (220 calories). After work I had my "afternoon snack" of cottage cheese (80 calories) and a can of peaches (110 calories). Dinner was a chicken enchilada (250 calories) and a chef salad. Evening snack was a chocolate cupcake (140 calories) with whipped cream. I had 240 calories left so I also had a glass of skim milk with chocolate syrup. 

I went to bed late last night (after 10 is late for me when I have to get up for work) but I slept well ! I watched plumbing videos from another of my favorite YouTubers and that allowed me to relax and drift off. 

All of my long winter nightgowns are in the laundry so I had to switch to a short summer one. Because of that, I got dressed as soon as I got up today ! Hmm, maybe I'm on to something ! 

I didn't exercise today because I didn't have my protein shake ready and I didn't have my shoes on. I know these are excuses but I also know this happens, so it's on me to make sure that doesn't happen. I promised myself I would exercise after work ... well, that didn't happen. During lunch I ran the vacuum and washed all the plasticware that's been sitting in the sink for a month. I also scrubbed the stove top and washed the few pans I had. It felt really good to get that job done ! After work I cleaned out the litter boxes and put away most of the dishes. I have a bunch of small plastic containers with lids and I left them out to air dry.

Tomorrow the plan is to get dressed before work, make my shake and get my shoes on. I also need to get the trash out before I put my shoes on as I don't wear my treadmill shoes outside. Needless to say, there will be no lingering in bed tomorrow !

Work was busy as I was finishing up a complicated project I received on Friday. It took me less than a day to complete but it definitely strained my brain. The good thing is it helped this particular process "click" in my brain and now I have an excellent example if it comes around again.

My Amazon order came today and I used the most important item right away: the eyeglass repair kit ! A while back the frames on my newest pair of glasses broke on one side, so I switched to my old glasses. About a week ago the nose piece on one side broke. So now I had new glasses with broken frames and "old" glasses with a broken nose piece. So I switched to my "oldest" glasses .. lol ! I'm so glad I keep all my old glasses ! With the repair kit I had the right size screwdriver to move my newest lenses and a nose piece to another set of frames. It helps that I buy the same frames every time I get glasses. I'll be heartbroken if they ever stop selling them ! So now I'm able to wear the best prescription and I have a spare pair, along with a pair for parts. I can really tell the difference with the lenses as the tv picture is very crisp ! I was going to swap out the case on my existing tablet for the new one, but decided to keep that for the weekend so I can take my time. I love the case for my new tablet so I can't wait for that to get here tomorrow ! I plan to use my existing table for iFit and the new one will just be for fun stuff ! The other items in my order were a long handled lotion applicator that I'm hoping will help me put lotion on my feet after I soak them ! I also bought a loofah back scrubber that I'm going to try and use on my feet. It has handles on it so I can loop it around my feet and just saw back and forth to scrape off the dead skin. Hey, if nothing else I'll get an upper body workout !

An answer to my prayers came tonight .. Nutrisystem has a Presidents Day sale going ! 55% off if you buy 40+ items ! I usually buy 96 or more (a full month's worth) so I am definitely going to take advantage of this. I will go heavy on the breakfast and snack items and light on the dinner items since I have a ton of them. I ordered some gift cards from Costco and will likely get them in my email sometime tomorrow. They sell Nutrisystem gift cards for $79.99 so that's even more savings. I've been eating out of the freezer lately to reduce the number of dinner items in there, so it won't be quite so hard to fit it all in the freezer. I'll have to delay my auto ship to the max date of March 4.

I may not have exercised but I got a lot done around the house today. I even got all the garbage together and cut up a head of lettuce so I could get the scraps from that into tomorrow's trash.