Headaches and Diet Coke

I hate diet coke. I'm only drinking it because I think my head will explode if I don't get some sort of caffeine in me. I'm feeling cheap today, so 50 cents is all I am willing to donate towards my addiction. Hence the diet coke. Blech.

I'm still toying around with the whole competition thing. I'm trying to see if I can get somewhat close to competition shape by December. If, by chance the beginning of October comes and I happen to be smokin hot (in my dreams!!) then I may register for the comp on December 1st. It is a small show, but an NPC qualifier. I think I have some decent muscle under all this mooshiness.

Which reminds me I am supposed to be on bodybuilding.com trying to find a new lower back exercise. I'll just open another window and find out.

So I tried waxing my legs this past weekend. It worked pretty well! I only did my calves because I ran out of sheets of paper or whatever they are. This weekend I am going to finish and then revel in my hairlessness for 6 to 8 weeks :) If I can get Alex to help, then I shouldn't have a problem getting the backs of my legs. I'm working my way up to bikini waxing.

Danica is getting to be such a little person! I love her to death! But I am taking her binky away starting next week. She only gets it now for naps and bedtime. On Monday, the daycare will be under orders to withold it during naptime as well. I am tired of getting up in the middle of the night to put it back in her mouth! She is old enough to sleep without it now. Next, after we have mastered the binky-loss is pottytraining. THen college.

foodfoodfoodfood

I'm hungry. I have PMS and there just isn't enough Chinese food in the world to satisfy my craving for salt and lo mein. And teriyaki. And maybe sushi. California rolls with no cucumber and spicy sauce. I ate two rolls like that on saturday. Now that I have a rice steamer and sushi making set, I may be stuffing myself with California rolls from now until at least Thursday next week.

Told you I was hungry. Well at least I didn't oversleep today. I turned the alarm clock off in my sleep yesterday and acidentally got an extra hour of sleep :) Then last night I got a killer migraine. I don't think I ate enough carbs and I have cut the thermogenics out of my diet.
Alex put me in bed at about 5:30 last night to rest up and relax. I seriously thought my eyeballs were going to pop out of my head, the pressure was so bad! But all better today! I upped my carb count and am going to have at least one diet soda today. Promise.

I've been kind of blah about the whole workout thing lately. My diet has been great. Absolutely clean for a week, but I just don't feel like heading to the gym! I'm trying to find stuff that makes me excited to work out. Like new lifting programs or new information. Lisa bought the Afterburn book and let me read it, so I've been trying that for the past week. I think it is working out okay. It's my week before TOM and I'm at 160.5. I normally gain three to five pounds this week, so maybe that means I'm finally about to break through this plateau! I've been gaining and losing the same two and a half pounds for the past three weeks. If I am ever going to get back to the 140's I need to do something NOW!!!!

Here is my diet for the day:

M1: 1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese, 1 pkg Splenda and some cinnamon
1 5- inch homemade blueberry waffle
M2: 1 5- inch homemade plain waffle
1 Tbsp reduced fat peanut butter
4 oz unsweetened applesauce
M3: 1 cup homemade beefy mushroom stew ( no potatoes)
1 slice 7 grain bread
M4: 4 oz canned chicken breast orange teriyaki style
1/2 cup brown rice
M5: 1 cup baked ziti
3 oz chicken
1 cup spinach greens
M6: 1 scoop Lean dessert protein Mocachino pudding

Daily totals: 1483 calories 35 g Fat 168g Carbs 118 g Protein

Not too bad! I realized this morning that I haven't cheated this week at all. considering Saturday we are having a fight party and cooking brats and cheese dip, that is a good thing. I can't wait for Saturday. FOOD!!!!!!!

Ohhhh!! And my neighbor is having a Pampered Chef party. Yay!!! Kitchen gadgets!!!

I'm alllll by myyyyysssseeeeyyyyeeelllffffffff...

Everyone has left me here all alone :( And I am soo going to sneak out of work early. I opened my big fat mouth about one of my belly dancing costumes and now I have to go home and put it on. Which is going to require mucho make'em up, fake eyelashes, really freaky fake hair(!!!) and jewel stickers. It will, at least, be fun :)

I've gotten strict with my diet again. Good for me.

Breakfast: 1/2 c CC and 4oz low carb yogurt
Meal 2: bacon, egg and cheese hashbrown quiche (?)
Pre lunch snack: (since I only had a thimble size piece of quiche and was starving!) 1/2 bag popcorn and 2 cookies (ugghhh! Real strict, huh?)
Lunch: 1/2 c brown rice 3 oz chicken breast with spicy orange teriyaki glaze
afternoon snack: possibly more protein chocolate oatmeal cookies. I'm addicted.
Dinner: some sort of cube steak recipe. I can't really remember. It will, however, be portion-appropriate.

For some reason, it seems very much so more strict when I'm actually eating it than when I type it. Hmmmmmm. Well except for the popcorn and cookie part.

It is so quiet in the office. I'm thinking of stealing one of my coworker's computer speakers since mine are busted. Shhhhhh. Don't tell. At least then I can listen to my punked out ska music (Me First and the Gimmee Gimmee's!) while hindering their ability to listen to country, slow jams, 80's hair band, or techno, depending on whose speakers I steal.

Monday Monday

Here I sit, at my desk, recovering from the heartstopping terror of finding (dum dum DUM) a spider staring at me whilst I ate my breakfast. Tiny little creepy crawlies terrify me. Mostly because there was this one incident involving a spider and my pants. I would tell you all about it, but I have mentally blocked those moments in order to stave off insanity.

In the meantime, I realized last night that I have been playing around on my diet. Meaning I pretend I'm eating clean when I really know Pesto penne with mozzerella cheese is in no way a balanced protein/carb meal. Even with extra mozz. So today, back to the whole brown rice chicken grind! I look forward to seeing the 140's for my effort. Or else...

I'm still trying to get the hang of this bloggy thing. Hopefully it will become easier as my life rolls on :)

See, pictures. Now I have an outlet for my quirky photography :)

157.5 lbs Pre-baby

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157.5 lbs Post-baby

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Okay, so I'm really three weeks pregnant in the Pre-baby picture, but I didn't know it yet. I just thought the comparison was pretty funny. Most people say having a baby ruins your body. I think I look better AFTER having Danica. My body composition is better. Not to mention the really specatacular fake tan I achieved.

Hmmmm. My first bloggy posty thingy

I have no idea why I have set this up. I have a myspace page that I never post on, so why I think this is a good idea, escapes me.

Mostly so I can do some stream-of-consciousness stuff that might be a little too strange for my other forums, :D

And post pictures.