Weight: 163.2 (missed my opportunity to weigh first thing in the morning...better luck tomorrow)
Goal for today: Reduce soda intake and 'cheat' meals and snacks
Not off to a great start. Xena, the dog, barking before 7 am to either be let out to pee or to attack the cats or because she felt we'd slept in enough. My youngest, Max, slept in my bed with me the previous night because I need to make a trip to Ikea to replace the slats on his bed (that broke from my fat ass being on it) and get a new mattress, but need to do it in a surgical strike - in, out and no browsing! Either that or have just won the lottery and have a new house to decorate!
So instead, one of the twin beds in his room is just the frame. And when my daughter is here from her dad's she gets the other bed since technically it's her bed. So Max is in with me. He got up to let the dogs out, and that's when I realized he'd pee'd on my bed. DAMMIT! So after kicking him out of my bed for good, stripping the bed and moving the couch to go back to sleep, I was in a proper funk.
I fell asleep for about an hour on the couch, tossing and turning with the dogs licking either my face or feet as they paced around the couch. So it's almost 8 am on Monday morning and I'm in a snit before I am even fully awake. I grab a soda and a yogurt and turn on the TDF. I try to stay focused on the race and commentary, but I am noticing that the freshly bathed dogs are scratching still. So that leads to more frustration at the situation I find myself in. I end up doing too many things during the race and have to go back (again) and rewind to see what's happened. I want to watch it all even though most of it's just chit chat.
While I'm watching, I'm researching things for the house like how to kill a flea infestation without emptying my house of all furniture, food, clothing and life forms (that I don't want to kill) to cover the remainder in poison. I've found some good things to use and some good organic and natural solutions for flea repellants (lemon juice and water mixture, or rosemary or lavender steeped water cooled and used as an Eau de Toillette) and eradicators, but I don't have the right tools to administer them. Oh and I have 3 kids that bitch and whine about the fleas, but don't take the team approach to resolving the issue. I am not sure how it happened, one flea from outside on the dogs and one turned to 30,000 or so, in every room of the house, on the cats who don't go outside and us constantly being bitten as we walked around the house. I do think that the epidemic started as a result of cleaning the carpets over the previous weekend. They say that vibration triggers dormant flea eggs to hatch so I woke up the sleeping nightmare by cleaning - no wonder I hate housework!
I read a good article about the epidemic and since I had researched how to organically eliminate carpenter bees since they are doing a number on the front porch, I knew that the solution for that was the solution for the fleas, but how do you spread diatomaceous earth (DE) around your house and not end up with dusty feet and what happens in the 24-48 hours it takes to kill the fleas naturally to solve the issue? The previous Saturday, my daughter and I had picked up 3 bags of earth from Farmer D organic gardening. We drove down to the location 20+ miles away and they tell me that next time, I can call ahead and have them deliver it to the location 7 miles from home, 2 from the office. Good to know....now. Anyhoo, I have one bag open and it looks like flour so each time I get up, I apply some powder in spots where the dogs have been known to hang out. And since I got food grade DE, I can even spread it on the dogs and cats. Not they are particularly glad or willing to let me do that.
My non-food goal for the day is to get ahead of the fleas. After being frustrated with the hand me down vacuum going berserk when trying to clean Max's room, I give up and start researching vacuums online. I want one that will suck the paint off the walls. I totally can't afford to be getting a new vacuum, but I've had a check from my dad to Max for his birthday for over a month in my wallet. I'd planned on setting Max up with his own bank account (little dude made $150+ on his last birthday) with it, but he volunteered to spot me for the vacuum instead, provided I pay him back....with interest. I found a good one (I think) and after spending another half hour weighing the options, I purchased it. Right after that I took the old one and put it to the curb for the trash men to take away.
So now, my house is in disarray. The dryer vent had just been fixed so I was going through washing EVERYTHING in the house. The vanity in the bathroom needed replacing so nothing could be stored in or around it. Fleas everywhere, kids leaving messes left and right (don't get me started on the number of cups used in a single day in the house) and now DE all over the carpets. It sure keeps the fleas off but is very drying to the skin...plus it's dirt, so yeah, I felt like a complete wreck. How do I handle it? That's right....sugar!
So following the example from the night before, I ordered pizza - a bigger one this time to make sure I get more than one slice, then I figured I was already crossing the line, might as well go whole hog and get desserts. I ordered brownies for the kids and cheesecake for me. This was our late lunch, early dinner when it arrived. We watched Moulin Rouge and munched away. I did find that when the food was all gone, I did want more, specifically more sugar - bread and brownies.
After giving in to the sugar fiend, I also gave in to another convenience - flea bombs. It was pouring outside and the temperature dropped 20 degrees so we turned off the A/C and got my room and Max's room ready for bombing. Apparently, you should put a towel in front of the door to keep it in as well, because an hour later or so, we were coughing a bit. Not the best idea, but what can I say...I was on a sugar high!
Around 7:30, I gathered up the kids to take J&M back to their dad's and on the way back, Max and I stopped at the store. Again figuring I'd already F'ed up the day, I got a bag of Reese's peanut butter cups along with all the ingredients I needed to maintain the diet. So Max and I went home and had our candy filled dinner/snack while we aired out our rooms. He had to go to camp the next day so he was showered and ready for bed, but where was he going to sleep? Not in the room full of poison from the flea bomb. So we got him settled in Jordan's room for the night.
If he couldn't sleep in his room, then I shouldn't sleep in my room either, so I settled in on the couch. But instead of going to sleep, I was up until 2 am watching episodes of Spartacus on Starz On-Demand, until I reasoned I couldn't stay awake any longer and still be functioning the next day. Probably a result of the volume of Diet Pepsi's I'd consumed in the day. Before I'd met with the nutritionist, I'd purchased 5 12-packs of Diet Pepsi (they were on sale 5 for $12, come on!) so I went ahead and finished 'em out.
All in all a shitty day with little to be happy about - spent too much, ate too much and too much of the wrong things, stayed up too late and just EVERYTHING felt wrong. This is exactly why I went to see the nutritionist to start with, so I went to sleep determined to do things differently the next day.
Here is my food log for the day:
- 8:30 AM - 2-12 oz Diet Pepsi's, Scrambled egg (1 egg, 2 egg whites) and 2 slices canadian bacon, vitamins, meds (oh and I realized I'd not been taking enough fish oil, so upped that today to 2 for 1290mg)
- 11:00 AM - 2-12oz Diet Pepsi's, Turkey wrap, cheese stick
- 2:30 PM - 2 slices supreme pizza, plain cheese cake, couple bites of brownie, 4-12oz diet pepsi's
- 5:30 PM - 12 oz Diet Pepsi
- 7:30 PM - last Diet pepsi in the house.
- 8:45 PM - 6 oz Reese's PB cups, 20 oz diet pepsi
No product recommendation for the day....I'd like to say my vacuum, but it's not here yet!
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