Heading Home!!

I'm going to stop using days as the title of these posts. Somewhere along the way I must have skipped a day or two, because it's now the 26th, and I've been doing this since the 1st, and somehow my post yesterday was for day 24? Maybe I'm just that bad at math!

Anyhow, we left Orlando at about 3:30, so we're hoping to get home around 5am, unless we decide to stop for a few hours to sleep. Claire slept for about an hour shortly after we left, and woke up SUPER cranky. We stopped for dinner at Cracker Barrel, and almost had to leave because she kept screaming. I can't stand it when she does that. It makes me feel bad for her, and embarrassed at the same time. *sigh*

Dinner at Cracker Barrel was the smothered chicken. I had about two bites of the green beans tat came with it, and gave the rest of my sides (corn and applesauce) to Claire. Breakfast was 3 eggs and lunch was a pizza skillet left over from Sunday (it was frozen). I had a piece of cheese in there somewhere :-) I probably didn't get enough calories or fat today, but I'll make up for it tomorrow.

I'm getting/will be getting considerably more caffeine than usual again today because I'm driving second shift. Once we get past Lake Marion in South Carolina I'm going to take over for as long as possible. I have recently acquired a nasty phobia for driving over certain bridges. I took over driving when we got into Georgia, forgetting that there are a LOT of bridges in that area, many of which are the kind I am afraid to drive over. I almost blacked out driving over one bridge, so as soon as we got over it I took the next exit and turned over the wheel to my mother. I told her I could drive when we got into SC, but would have to get her to drive over Lake Marion (according to the map, it's a looooong bridge!!). Fun stuff!!

Days 23 & 24

OWWIE my head hurts!! I was a dummy yesterday. For some reason, I thought it would be OK to have some pizza, fries, and carrot cake for lunch. I really don't know what I was thinking, except for maybe I had been at Sea World and Disney World every day of the week. Anyhow about 2 hours after eating the junk, I started feeling lethargic. Then this morning I felt like crap and had trouble waking up. All day I've felt gross! I went back to eating well today: bacon for breakfast, bacon cheeseburger for an early lunch, another bacon cheeseburger for a late-afternoon snack, and chicken and steak from Pollo Tropical for dinner. I suspect the headache is from my body going through carb withdrawal again, which is good, but darn it hurts! I hope it's gone tomorrow because we have to drive home to Maryland.

I didn't do FitDay today or yesterday, and now I'm just too pooped to even bother. I'll get back to it tomorrow. We're not going to Sea World again, except for maybe a short trip so I can ride the roller coaster (kinda hard to do when it's just me and Claire, and she's WAY too short!!).

Day 22

I'm not bothering with FitDay today. Just too pooped from yet another day at Sea World. I wasn't too bad today; had a good breakfast of three eggs and some bacon, lunch was beef brisket, and dinner was a sirloin steak with some cheese, black olives, hardboiled egg, and bleu cheese dressing. I also had a few bites of Claire's cheese for a snack (probably about an ounce, she had like 3 pieces!). We stopped at the Hospitality Center at Sea World and I got my two free beer samples (muhahah!) of Michelob Light and Michelob Ultra. And because I've been dying for some ice cream, probably from seeing so much at all the theme parks, I got some CarbSmart ice cream bars when we stopped at the grocery store. I only had one, and it did the trick :-)

That's it for today. I did a lot of walking, again, and Claire is sleeping in the bedroom so I can't do my T-Tapp, again!!

Day 21

Today is three weeks! And I have no scale to see how well I'm doing...

Today was difficult. Had a late breakfast of three fried eggs with butter. I don't think it was enough because I was famished about 2 hours later. We were at Disney World by then, so we stopped and I got a tasty foot-long hot dog with about 1/2 cup of sauerkraut and some mustard. That also wasn't really enough, and I was starving about 3 hours after that! So we went ahead and had an early dinner. I got a double bacon cheeseburger from yet another Disney place. When I took the bun off, the cheese went with it, so I added some cheese sauce from the fixings bar in the restaurant, along with some mayo, pickles, and a slice of tomato. Yummy, and this time I stayed full!

I think my problem today was not enough fat or protein for breakfast and lunch!! Tomorrow morning I will have some bacon with my eggs, and I think I'll take some hardboiled eggs with me when we go back to Sea World. Oh, and maybe some cheese!! I remembered to pack snacks for Claire today, but I didn't do it for myself.

Time for bed. It's going to be another busy day tomorrow!! We're going to feed the dolphins at Sea World!

Day 20

Today we went to Sea World, and I had a beer *burp* :-) I ate very well the rest of the day: steak and eggs for breakfast, smoked beef brisket for lunch, and pizza skillet for dinner. I wasn't hungry for snacks all day, and we did a ton of walking. Well, I did anyway, Claire did a lot of riding in her stroller. I was completely stressed out from having four generations of women in my family in one room at the same time, so I had a Michelob Ultra Amber with the beef brisket. I also had a Diet Coke, 3 Diet Rites (cans), and a Diet Pepsi over the course of the day. I will cut out on the soda when I get back from my trip. Even if it stalls me, I think I need it this week. I may need another beer before the week is over ;-)

One other thing I meant to write about sooner, and keep forgetting to do, is my lack of scale. I weighed myself on Friday morning before I left, and I won't be weighing myself again until the morning after we return. So that will be more than a week without a scale! EEK! I'm a little nervous about getting on it when I return home; I'm hoping that the somewhat lax eating over the past few days hasn't reversed my progress. I don't think it has, but who knows. Actually, the room I'm in for the week has mirrors all along one wall, and I noticed that I'm starting to get some definition in my waist area, and my legs look a little bit leaner.

That also reminds me, I need to get back to my T-Tapp! I wanted to do it when I got to Orlando, but the living room doesn't have any space for it. So I need to hook up my DVD player in the bedroom and do it! I'd do it before bed, but I'd probably be all worked up and not be able to sleep (and with a trip to Disney World tomorrow, I need sleep!!), and anyway Claire is asleep in the room. Waking her up would be a very, very bad idea. She was up for a few hours in the middle of last night, which meant I was up with her.

Vacations are so much fun! :-p

Days 18 & 19

I think today is day 19 :-)

We're back on the road today after two nights in Middleburg, FL at my aunt's house. It was a nice visit, and I managed to stay on-plan for the most part.

I've had a lot more caffeine than I was planning to this weekend. Right now I'm drinking a Diet Dr. Pepper. When we get to Orlando we'll go to the grocery store and I'll get some Diet Rite, which doesn't usually cause any stalling for me, and doesn't have any of that nasty caffeine in it.

Yesterday I had some eggs and cheese for breakfast, another Baconator for lunch, and steak and cheese for dinner. It's funny because I had the same amount of steak as everyone else, but they also had salad, bread, and potatoes with theirs. I just had cheese with mine, and I was totally full! I had some more of the sugar-free Reese's candies, and I don't think I'll make that mistake again for a while. I was tootin' for hours after I had them, and my tummy still hurts a bit now! NO MORE SUGAR-FREE REESE'S FOR ME!!! (this is to remind me! hehe)

So far today I've had some eggs and bacon. We had breakfast a bit late, so we'll probably stop for lunch when we're a little closer to Orlando. Maybe we'll go to Wendy's or Hardee's; they've been good choices for doing low-carb so far.

And no, I'm not driving and writing at the same time ;-)