Weigh-in Day

Not much to talk about the past few days, this cold has been kicking my butt and I haven't even gone to exercise. After the coughing started, even breathing too hard could set me off, so cardio exercise seemed like a bad plan. I've done a little bit of mild strength work in the bathroom at home, mostly just air squats and arm lifts to make myself feel better for being lazy. I am hoping that this will be my last sick day off, though. Sundays are my usual day of rest, and by Monday I'm hoping to be ready to go back to the gym. I need to get my heart beating hard again, four days with no exercise has made me notice a few skipped heartbeats again. The beta blocker helps keep my heart in line, but not as much as the regular exercise!

I did make it to Weight Watchers this morning, barely. I gave in and took some NyQuil last night, which rendered me unconscious until almost 9:30 this morning. Restful, but I had to run for my 10am meeting! Man, NyQuil is weird stuff, it gives me strange, heavy, ponderous dreams. I don't really remember my dreams, but I remember how slow they were, trickling through my brain. Anyway, made it to the meeting, got the math error on my sheet corrected, and weighed in. Startlingly, I lost 3.4 pounds! I guess even without exercise, my diet of mostly whole-wheat couscous and gallons of water and tea was enough to peel off some weight.

 I'm excited now because I'm just 2.4 pounds from my 10% goal of 26 pounds lost. Already I've lost the equivalent weight of three gallons of milk, weight I no longer have to carry around everywhere I go. No wonder I feel better! I have to be careful this week because weight lost during sickness tends to creep back on, but getting exercise again will help. I've gotta get my weight-loss house in order before the holidays really kick in, because it'll be so much more difficult then. (Gotta get my actual house in order too, but that's a different blog!)

Last night I tried a new recipe for tilapia, but it didn't turn out. I baked the fish in a Pyrex dish on top of a bed of sliced lemons and limes. Lemon and lime slices are great when I cook fish in the pan, but apparently baking them makes the fish unacceptably bitter. Or so says the husband, I couldn't testify to it because I currently have no sense of taste to speak of. Which is good, since I can eat the leftovers now and not care! Today I'm cooking dried pintos in the crockpot, will report back on how they turn out.