Picking up the Pieces

Okay.. so I'm currently sitting here with a rice crispy treat the size of my head.

Well.. almost the size of my head..

Don't try and talk me down... I'm going to eat this sucker.  There is no doubt about it.

Just wanted to let you guys know.  :)

Thanks by the way - for hanging around.


Things have been crazy lately.  Quite literally.  Dearest and I have been dealing with someone with some... stalkerish tendencies for quite awhile now.  Sadly this isn't my first rodeo with this kind of situation either.  At least I've got some experience dealing with it.. but geez that's just sad.

Hence my hastey entrance into blogger seculsion (and crazy paranoia land).

For now - we'll leave that at "that".

In other news, I don't think I've run since ... July.  ?  Not sure.  Not on purpose at least.  My weight has stayed pretty stable but I've noticed a huge difference in my level of "squishiness"  Ew.  I tried for a bit going on a mediterranian style diet.  While tasty, anything that requires me to cook so often just isn't going to work.  I'm too lazy to work 10 hour days, cook and clean.  It's that simple.  Hey at least I know it.

Dearest, bless his heart is just scared to death of the oven.  If he can't cook it in the microwave you'd better believe he's just going to go to the drive thru for dinner.  Oddly enough though I hear rumors that he is a pretty mean cook - over a fire pit. 

Other than that though I've been celebrating over the fact of just cooking something period.  I got my Southern Plate cookbook in the mail this week.  Now this is NOT a diet cookbook.  This is NOT a healthy living cookbook.  This IS a feel good, southern tradition cookbook.  It WILL make you cry, and laugh.  Well - I did anyway.  I'm a huge Christy Jordan fan and well I'm just so darn proud of her.

*update: previously mentioned rice crispy treat is now dessicated*

So yeah, I haven't gained any ground on weight loss, (in fact the batteries in my scale died about 2 months ago) reached any goals, run any miles, or any of that good stuff.  However - amongst all of the bad that's been hanging around lately I've realized that I'm pretty darn happy.  Yeah I'm still wearing the same size clothes, but I feel good.  I'm not hiding under the covers with all of the blinds drawn shut.  I'm not wearing baggy sweats, or going days without showering.  I make a concious effort to fix my hair and put on some resemblance of make-up before I go out into the big bad world.

Picking up the pieces baby.

BYOC Friday * Bring Your Own Craziness*

Loves me some brain breaks!  Thanks Drazil

It's give your brain a break Friday - A whole blog entry ready for the taking... just copy and paste the questions into your blog and answer away.  It's our way of getting to know new and old bloggers a little better!

Enjoy!

1. Because I'm going hardcore on Monday to lose my last 15 before vacation I'm curious... what's the oddest diet you have tried?  Or which ones have you tried and were any successful?

I've done weight watchers, which worked fine for, but I had the most success on a 40-40-20 split diet.  40% of your daily calorie intake from protein, 40% from carbs and 20% from fat.  At the time I was taking in about 1400 calories a day and it was a challenge - it's hard to eat 1400 calories of "good foods".  I was never hungry.  I was also the leanest I've ever been (got down to 126 lbs) and while this was six years ago, to this day I still gag at the mention of egg whites, protein shakes, protein oatmeal, and chicken and green beans.  Just say "chicken" and I'm cool.  Just "green beans" and I'm fine.  Put those two words together and I shudder.

I tried Atkins.  Yeah that lasted about two hours.  I also did the slim fast diet and lost a good 30 pounds, but used is as a kick start to weight watchers, it wasn't sustainable for me.

The sandwich diet.  I'm kind of on this one now - easy and cheap.  I eat a lot of home made sandwiches.  I LOVE sandwiches.  Unnaturally so I think.  An old boyfriend lost probably 20 pounds doing this and used it as a jump start.  You've got to start somewhere, and replacing fast food with something from your own kitchen is a good way to start.


2.  Do you prefer baths or showers?

I'm a bath kind of girl.  I love to soak in a nice deep bath.  A few months back I wasn't allowed to take baths for 2-3 weeks for medical reasons - it was torture.  I was very very cranky due to this and the fact that I was jealous that Dearest could take baths and I couldn't.


3.  What is your favorite breakfast food?

Man I love me some breakfast.  I eat breakfast food any time of the day.  On the weekends growing up my dad would always make a huge breakfast - and Christmas mornings we have a family tradition where my Dad's side of the family all comes over for breakfast - and this breakfast is ginormous!  We have breakfast casserole, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage (patties and links), creamed rice, biscuits, gravy, fried apples, grits, oh man.  I can't choose just one favorite.  I just can't.

4. What's your least favorite word?

Hah. Convenience.  Weird, yeah I know.  I spent a whole semester in college re-defining the word.  Every class revolved around this word.  We did campus wide surveys about this word.  I shudder every time someone breathes this word and restrain myself from asking them to define it.  Oh Dr. Mac how you ruined me.

5. Repeat question... make someone a Superstar for a day!  Whose blog or comment spoke to your or stuck with you the most this week and why?

Okay well first off - I think this woman is already a Superstar!  She is just totally awesome in my book.  Her blog doesn't have anything to do with weight loss - in fact it's about southern cooking - but she is the kindest and most positive person ever - Christy Jordan.  Her post on Our Best Pancakes, Attitude, & Mules is one that I go back and re-read often.  Love her.

Also Amy's post -Letter   over at Food's Ex Best Friend stuck with me simply because I'm in the exact same place.