Day 52 - Wasted Time

I came to the realization that I’ve been at this for 52 days and have little to show for it. It’s rather disgusting. I had two things to accomplish this summer – lose weight and finish The Superhero’s Housekeeper – and I’m sucking at both of them. The lack of writing is hitting me a little less than the lack of weight loss. It’s the weight loss that affects my health the most (there is stress when writing and waiting to hear back from publishers and agents) and I wanted to really turn things around. I just feel like a big, fat failure. I could go on and on about how I feel right now but I don’t think that’s a good thing to do.

Dana :(

Weight: 398.6 (down .2)

Day 51 - Back at It

Trying to get back at eating healthy. Went grocery shopping this morning and picked up sandwich makings for lunch and lettuce for salads. I’m going to really try and not break that 400 mark (going up) and, of course, lose weight. Now that my Daughtry weekend is over, my focus can be on making good choices in eating. For lunch I had a turkey and provolone on rye with some baked tater chips but for dinner, I made the choice to get a hot sandwich from Domino’s. I had a craving. It happens but I need to learn how to deal with those cravings and not give in to them. That, of course, is one of the tricks to losing weight but also something that’s hard to do. All I can do is take it one day at a time, right?

My face is molting now because of my sunburn which makes me look oh so lovely. My upper chest got burned too on Saturday and the beet red portion of my skin is split into two thanks to my purse strap so that just looks great. LOL I had taken some Coppertone with me but when I sprayed a little on my hand to make sure I wasn’t allergic to it (I have issues with beauty products), I found the smell of the stuff offensive. I’m not sure if any of us manage to take sun precautions or at least I don’t remember.

My knee is still a bit swollen and bruised and I probably should have it checked out by my doctor but I’m tired of having medical bills. I’ll give it a few days.

Not only am I trying to focus on health, I need to get The Superhero’s Housekeeper done and I’ve been slowly increasing the amount of words I get done each day. The goal is to get the first draft done before school begins and then I can work on editing it when things get busy with school.

Dana :)

Weight: 398.8 (holding steady)

Days 47-50: My Weekend and Monday

My mini-vacation to Minnesota was AWESOME! And I also came back 4.2 pound lighter. I’m under 400 again! Guess it helps to become dehydrated at a music festival. It also helped that I was around people and I eat less when I’m around others. I’ll give you a rundown of my weekend (minus Thursday since I did manage to blog about that).

Friday

My friend Tracy and I had to pick up our friend Julie who was flying in from Boston. The afternoon activity was attending Chris Daughtry’s storytelling session that was ending a radio convention. There were about twelve fans there among a bunch of radio industry people and I felt slightly odd being there but that feeling went away the minute Chris took the stage. He answered some questions and also sang two songs acoustically. His voice was spot on and he was funny in his answers. Here is one of the pics I took.

 Afterwards, Chris was kind enough to stick around to take pictures with the fans that were in attendance. And I got my first Chris hug! Here is my picture. (Sorry it's off center.)

 

Several of us fans then went to TGI Fridays for appetizers and drinks. I had a peach sangria which was nummy but it was like $10! Really???

That night we went to one of Tracy’s kid’s baseball game and then Tracy, Julie, Tracy’s hubby, and I went to Applebee’s for appetizers and drinks. I had a delicious chicken quesadilla and a couple margaritas. (I typically only drink on Daughtry trips.). And then I biffed it on the way out. Embarrassing! The floor was slick (it wasn’t the margaritas) and I went all flailing and landed hard on my left knee and jacked my back up. My knee is all bruised and hurts and walking will probably be on hold for a few days.

Saturday

Daughtry day! We had to be at the festival at 2:45 despite Daughtry not going on until 10pm. We had VIP packages but we had nothing to do with that until 6:30. It was hot but with a nice breeze and we sat in the shade of the stage and watched LA Guns but I’d never heard of them and I had earplugs in. It was then time to head to VIP which was a hurry up and wait situation. I was a hot mess by that time so when the guys want to give hugs, I was all like “No!” and just shook hands. Here’s my VIP picture.

We were then led in a group back to the stage area where they had roped off a section for us in front of the stage. I was done by that time and despite Daughtry being a rock show, I sat in the special chair I bought just for the concert. I had a great seat though and here’s my favorite pic I took. 

The band was great – as usual – and Chris had so much energy. It was also great to hear some songs I haven’t heard performed live before (this is my 6^th show).

Afterwards, we hopped a shuttle to where the car was parked which was in a parking lot where there was a Domino’s. None of us had really eaten at the festival so we ordered a pizza and tailgated in the parking lot at 12:30am. It was a good time and we were so hungry that we agreed that it was the best pizza ever!

Sunday

Time to go home. The drive was fine; thank goodness for phone GPS’s. I was glad to get home to see my baby kitties and Joey the cat was ecstatic that I was home. He’s still in a cuddling mood. I was exhausted from the weekend and still hurt everywhere from my fall and all the standing we did on Saturday. I'm almost getting too old for these festival shows!

As I said, I came home 4.2 pounds lighter and am under 400 at 398.8. Now comes the hard part in keeping those pounds off and continuing to lose.

I had a great weekend!

Dana :)