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Been awhile since I posted.  Things have been…busy?  Hectic?  Stressful?  It’s hard to describe.

On the one hand, we’re trying to get financing and a house…on the other, trying to take care of the place we’re in.  We’re on separate schedules, and trying to fit in time for each other where we can.  We’ve both gained a craptastic amount of weight, and are trying to get back on the wagon.  June 1st is my new start date, and he’s said he’ll be joining me this time.  I’ve picked up a Dana Carpender book (15 minute meals), and there’s a couple of Sheila Pike-Pereyra’s books around here…so I’m trying to keep some recipes in mind for not only dinners, but also lunches.

On the knitting front, I got a very plain pair of socks done in April (forgot to post ‘em to the SAM5 knitalong…oops), and finished Sock1 of my Hedgerows, my cotton Jaywalkers, and my Eleanors.  Bear in mind…that’s only sock 1 of each.  Yeah…I’ve been having some serious discontent with my knitting lately. My Noro scarf is on the back burner.

So…that’s about it.  Maybe there will be more later.  Still debating on that…

Things are starting to even out.  My laundry still isn’t done, and the kitchen is still a mess, but those are ongoing projects since one person is generally asleep when the other’s awake around here.

• work situation hasn’t changed.  There was a chance it would.  That isn’t happening.  Now that this isn’t in limbo, I can concentrate on grousing that I’m the only person into the office first thing in the AM.
• got in some quality knitting time this week.  Knitting always helps even out the moods.
• our housing situation is still up in the air, but looking a lot more favourable and a lot less bleak.  This makes me happier.
• spent much less time on warcrack.  I actually *can* walk away from the game when it starts pissing me off. I actually rolled a wee mage on an Alliance server that a friend is playing on, just to noodle around.  I generally get bored with Alliance and ditch.   We’ll see if I continue the trend. So far for lvl 70 toons, Horde is winning, 2-0
• down about 6 lbs this week.  Blood sugar is somewhat stabilizing.

I slipped.  Really badly.  I meant to get back on plan, get my life in order…and what happens?  Well, my kitchen is a mess, the clean laundry is still waiting to be put away, the dirty laundry is piling up, and my weight has ballooned.  Significantly.

I’d meant to follow strict Low Carb for 2 weeks before my birthday, right?  That didn’t work so well.  Then, right after my birthday, when I was trying to get everything back in order…my parents gave me my birthday gift.  A baked cheesecake.  A FULL baked cheesecake.  While I love the fact that Mum remembered…it was exactly the wrong trigger.  Cue another week of poor eating habits.

Combine that with Warcrack…I’d planned on making a nice, LC chicken stirfry on Saturday afternoon before Raid.  Um…yeah.  Couldn’t get that done in between two heroic instances and THEN the raid. Also disturbing is my tendency to snack on chocolate candies during raids.  Yet another bad habit to kill.

So this week I have to get this crap figured out and fixed.  I’ve made a stab in the right direction by ordering an Atkins-induction-friendly cookbook online, and it should hopefully arrive soon.

Other than that…I can still make my stir-fry for dinner, and hopefully I can get some planning done on a week’s worth of groceries, lunches and dinners.  This needs to get done, ASAP.  I feel like crap, and it’s pretty obvious why.  In the past month, I’ve felt queasy, and my headaches have been recurring.   I’ve also gained a LOT of weight back, really quickly.  The good news is that weight gained quickly should also go away fairly quickly, with little damage.  It still doesn’t make me feel good, though.

So yeah.  Sad panda.  Gotta get this under control.

In happier news, my Noro striped scarf is looking pretty.  Pictures to come once it’s done.  Yes…a scarf.  Sometimes a girl needs a break from socks…

I will be recommitting to my chosen way of eating (and weight loss) on Sunday, 27-Jan-08.  Back to low-carbing instead of dicking around with various methods, trying to find the best one.  I think I’ve figured out what works.

Only currently foreseeable deviation will be 1 day in February when I will be having sushi and cheesecake.  Baked cheesecake.  The jury is still out as to what kind of baked cheesecake it will be, but it will be cheesecake, and it will be baked.

I’m beginning to think that the office is seriously trying to make us fat.  If we can’t move to get away, maybe we’ll take more calls, right?  It started off with “healthy snack day” on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  I can get behind the sentiment, even if the execution sucks.  I’ve expounded on this before, but it bears repeating.  Breakfast bars, fruit bars, oranges, apples, and “low fat” yogurt.  Of course, “low fat” means “added sugar”.  All of the “healthy snacks” are loaded with sugar, even if the real fruit has added fibre.

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