Slimdude

Well, BSers… I have had what seems like a very long day. But also pretty fun. I’d be in an even better mood if I wasn;t in pain. I know you get tired of hearing it. Believe me, I get tired of feeling it.

Despite that, I am proud of myself for the things I do even with this problem. Marathon Girl asked if I had an injury. If you haven’t read my background blogging entries : I have some kind of arthritis that affects my feet and it has also caused degeneration in my neck spine discs. The discs slightly press on my nerves and they cause pain in my neck and shoulder area and back. Anyway. I am always in some kind of pain, it’s always a matter of degree of pain. I usually start the day at about a “5″, take some Celebrex and it goes to a “3″ or so before I exercise.

I’m on Robaxin during the day, and then at night I take Flexeril. But the point of this post was not to complain about my aches and pains. I still feel lucky to be able to do what I can.

And Today that was This : My son woke up extra early at 5am, so I layed down with him but neither one of us really slept. At 6am we got up and had breakfast and then we watched SpongeBob until it was time to get him to school at 7:30. I cleaned the house a bit until 8:30 and then I did The Gazelle for six miles while watching Regis and Kelly, and Kathie Lee was on there…

Then I had a small break and a small nap before packing up the car with my closet stuff mostly… you know, clothes… and since both my wife and I were off today we decided to go out for lunch. On the way out to the New Place we saw a turtle in the road and decided to rescue it. I don’t know anything about turtles but now I own one.

So we dropped off the Stuff at the New House and put the turtle in the bathtub and then we went to Sonny’s for lunch and I had a grilled chicken salad with fat free ranch. Then we went to Pet Smart for turtle stuff and also to the Mall so my wife could get some gloves to go with her dress.

Then we came back to the Old Place to get ready for the Ball and even though it wasn’t terrible, I felt chubby in my blues. Because I weigh around 160 and they were issued to me at 140 and I keep refusing to buy new pants. I knew there would be pictures taken and there were and they are nice photos but I can’t help but feel as if that is NOT ME in those pics!! Oh well. More motivation to lose 20 pounds, I suppose.

We picked The Boy up and took him to our friend’s house because she was babysitting for us, then the Ball itself was fabulous. My wife looked stunning and we met a lot of interesting people and I even danced for about 30 minutes to some old school funk and disco before I just had to sit down.

And here I am getting ready for bed and I wanted to share with you my day. Tonight I may indeed get back up and if I’m right, it’ll be about midnite when my Urge first hits because that’s about an hour or two from now. But I am tired of this habit and I know I can lose the weight if I stop eating at night. Also I don’t want to carry this habit… this demon… over into the new house and tomorrow is our first night over there. I want to leave that Poltergeist in this house, the Old Place and not taint the new Place with this!

Goodnite!

—Matt

Despite the fact that I cannot seem to get control of my eating at night and I looked at the scale this morning and it said “159″ so I have gained five pounds back this week.

But I still feel very good and very motivated and I’m sure if I just get back on track I can get rid of those five pounds and be back on my way. I wonder if I eat right today and exercise what will my official weigh-in be tomorrow.

I had hoped it would be 152 but obviously it won’t be now.

See you later!

—Matt