Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Wednesday 7/31/2013

Well - it's Wednesday in India anyway!  Sorry to start this so early for most of you :)

I'm using a very inconsistent scale in my hotel room - it's showing me around 176lbs, which I think is a bit high, but who knows.  It's been about 10 days since I've been on my own scale, so I have no clue.

At worst, I'm 1-2 lbs above my preferred range, which given my schedule, travel, difficult food choices at times, low fluid intake, etc. etc. isn't bad at all.  India is land of the carbs - if you think the US is bad...  protein has traditionally been a luxury item here so many of the dishes are vegetarian or nearly so - and everything comes with Rice and or (delicious) indian breads.  I've been able to keep things reasonably in control, but even the protein dishes tend to be carb-y (eg chicken coated in flour), so i get triggered a bit to eat more... i've had a tough time resisting, but have tried to gear intense workouts around those events so I burn it up as fast as possible.  

It's been a long trip, and I'm happy to be heading home soon - this is my 12th trip here in a couple years and it's getting old.  I leave for the airport late THursday night, and I'll land in Paris Friday am (hmmm no carbs there!) and spend a couple days decompressing before I head home on Sunday.

I have a slow week planned next week, then my longest cycling race of the year (120 miles) next Saturday...  I'm very lucky to have fallen in with a group of guys around my age (old!) who have all taken up cycling in our declining years and enjoy the longer rides.  Pretty interesting group - one guy had a kidney transplant and then a heart attack - THEN he took up triathalons.  Guy #2 is a diabetic (never overweight, just genetic), and a young guy in his forties :).  We're planning our winter season with some week-long training/event trips to Arizona and California already.  I'm really looking forward to it.

Sorry for the long post - just lonely I guess!

Morning Jub! Up before the sun as is my usual anymore.. India sounds interesting from all the travel shows/articles I've seen, and it's one place I've wanted to see- but I can understand after traveling (for work no less) there so many times, the thrill can wear off! Is it very crowded, streets crazy?

145.2, still heading in the right direction. Planning on another camp out/hike this weekend. Last weekend was wonderful, and I picked a bit over a pound of smooth chanterelles (oh my, yummy- had them last night over some tilapia) and oyster mushrooms (good, but not as good as the chants.) Also noted where there was a huge patch of blackberries (it was a long hike, ate a few hand fulls at the time).. most weren't ripe yet, but maybe this weekend. Will bring a collecting bag for them and make my ricotta/egg crepes and throw those in the middle with some sweetened full fat Fage as a luxe bfast the next day by the pond! I'll try to remember to charge my camera batteries so I can take a couple pics this time.

I can't recommend India enough!  It is super interesting as a tourist.  Unfortunately Bangalore is one of the least interesting cities in all of India (if not the world).  This weekend I did get to make a side trip to Pondicherry - a former French colony north of Chennai, which was somewhat interesting.  The tourism I've done here has been spectacular.  Here's a photo I took at the Taj Mahal a few years ago...

155.1 - LOL! My body REALLY likes 155ish. Hell, it won't matter and I doubt I'll be able to get on the scale much over the next few weeks/month. I'm going to do my best to control the damage, but fully expect a "I regained two pounds and I'm freaking out" post. LOL. No, I can do better than that. I will.

I'm SO nervous about the recovery side of this thing, but off I go. It is what it is. My daughter and I had a "sleepover", but the new dog was having NONE of that. He sleeps with her and wasn't happy that we were in my big tall bed and he couldn't get up there. We ended up lifting him into the bed and letting him sleep with us to stop the whining. LOL! It was nice to have some extra cuddle time with my best girl.

I'll share this here as long as no one tells her I did... but we shaved her legs for the first time last night. She's only 10, but she's in full blown puberty right now (no period yet, but that will be very soon). The child had a forest growing on her legs - seriously - way more hair than I have NOW. And she asked. I always said that when they ask, I'll do it. So, we did it. I already had a razor for her (Intuition brand FTW!). She's got lots of underarm hair too, but wanted to wait on that. I told her how to do it and we put her razor in her bathroom, so she's well prepared. I know it seems weird, but it was kind of a cool time with just her and I, sitting on the edge of the tub, shaving our legs. LOL!

Anyway... love to you all!

Good to know on the razor recommendation :)  according to "the rules" if I stay in this cycling racing mode much longer I'm supposed to start shaving the "guns" - mentally, I'm not quite there yet.

Legs are to be carefully shaved at all times. If, for some reason, your legs are to be left hairy, make sure you can dish out plenty of hurt to shaved riders

Candy,

so reminded me of my niece.  she was born with hair all over.  Thankfully she shed most of it but her legs never left so she's this four year old with hairyy lefgs.  Around 7 she asked for her legs to be shaved.  my sister said no when she was ten.  So she got up on a chair found her fathers razor  and did it herself.  Well the family was horrified but she said the kids were makinf fun of her. 

The story alwau=ys broke my heart.  You should have a little time before you worry about the world having an opinion on how you look.  but no she was 0ver six but not yet seven.  To this day she won't talk about it.  Her attirude is why was i pushed to that, I did ask but it was also hard for my sister to think about it.  It meant to her she was growing up  and  she didn't want her to have to deal with  what she saw as adult stuff.

My mother says hormones in milk is making everyone develop faster, that and Mc Donalds.  Yeeah i have that family.

Sorry for the typos, can't see my screen as i type on OH. Hate it.

201 pounds.  Life is great!

151.6 - heading in the right direction. Stellar eating planned for today.

Candy - I'm wishing you the very best of best outcomes from this surgery. I know that you will blow the doctors away with how well you recover. Funny about the shaving thing. I was just looking at my 15 yo's face thinking that hubby needs to show him how to shave pretty soon. It's peach fuzz, but it's there.

Off to work. Is it rude to wear ear buds and listen to an audio book when the annoying person that no one likes decides to sit at the same table with me while we process books for 3 hours? Honestly, I'm working very hard to like her but she has the foot/mouth disease worse than anyone I know - and that's saying some since I suffer from it, too. The **** she talks about makes me blush and that's saying something.

I shall keep trying to find the good in her.

Ain't work drama fun?

Jesus pace yourself.   Your not even a month employed and you want to tune out co-workers?   The polite waiting period is 90 days.  and by the way you don't have to like her, just hold off devouring her.

Cheers.

Too late. Last spring while I was volunteering, she was giving me crap one day (telling me I was crazy over and over and over for volunteering to learn my new job - I get comp hours for all of those volunteer hours and I can use said comp hours any time I want during the year. HA!!! who's crazy now!?!?!?! HMMMM????...okay, yeah, I'm totally ******g crazy) and I might have said some things that she regrets.

New year - so that is all in the past and I am determined to find the good in her.