New Career

OK folks. I think I'm really on to something here. I need to quit my current (very low paying) "job" to become....

an inventor. a diet inventor.

Remember Meg's post about what to do about people in your life who eat whatever they want and don't gain weight? Well, I've just encountered the same problem out here.

Before I reveal my brilliant idea, let me back up.

My husband is really skinny (BMI 18.5). He likes to eat cookies. And I like to bake them for him (call me old fashioned, whatever). So I finally cave and bake in 75 cookies. They are very tasty (oatmeal, made with real butter, of course, chocolate chips, cranberries, pecans, and a dash of cinnamon). And the deal has always been that he is supposed to TAKE THEM AWAY FROM ME. You know, take them to work or hide them from me.

This time, he wasn't being very nice. He leaves them on the counter. When I asked him to hide them he says "why don't you just not eat them".

????? because I can't not eat them. Its impossible.

Then it occurred to me: I need to invent a discrete internal locking device for kitchen cabinets. That way, he can have his own kitchen cabinet filled with his cookies and other evils. And even if I really really really wanted one, and would somehow justify to myself how I should have one, I wouldn't be able to get to it.

I first envisioned some sort of bar/grate system with a lock. But that's no good, cause I'd open the bag by sticking my evil little fingers between the bars. Then I'd probably pull a "classic Bri": breaking off smallish bits of cookie over and over again and eating them - because surely, many bits of cookies is the same as actually eating a cookie, and is calorie-less.

So it'll have to be some sort of solid tungsten steel type panel covering a shelf with a lock in front. We wouldn't the company to see the lock, so the fantastic anti-cookie-locking-device needs to be hidden behind the cabinet door.

For the time being, maybe I should try this:(Um, I don't know why this image suddenly became blue, but you get the idea, right?)

FJ: ouchy. hosted dinner party tonight. the damage is pretty bad. plus that ^&*%&$ cookie. 36 points. 14 flex left. no exercise (it was brutally hot here today - "felt like 104" according to the weather lady. and we don't have a/c). I know I'm not supposed to make excuse for lack of exercise, but I think today I'm quite justified.

S-M-R-T

Did you hear the news? Cardio makes you SMARTER. I could really go for some of that. Maybe my lack of exercise is a contributing factor to my new 6th-year graduate student status. (Don't ask me when I'm going to graduate, ok? I'll get ugly. fast)

So, if I can manage to get up on time tomorrow, I can pull a Homer on the treadmill ("I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I am so smart! S-M-R-T"). And, when I finally graduate, I should screen myself a shirt that says that too. Hrmmmm... Ah, never mind. Someone else already makes them.

I've been so tired today. I couldn't get up this morning. and on my bike ride home, my muscles kept screaming "STOP!!!". I almost walked my bike I was so tired. I have no idea why this is, but I took it as a sign that I should spend my last three points of the day on hot chocolate. Not just any hot chocolate. Lake Champlain Aztec hot chocolate. mmmm....

Ate 22, exercised 2, flex left 10

retraction

there is actually a picture online. i just didn't look hard enough.

(yes, that was soooo much easier than just taking a digital pic because i am soooo busy and can barely find enough time to write one non-thought-provoking post, let alone two non-thought-provoking posts with pictures...ha!)

and while we're on the topic of retractions, i'd like to retract my comment from a previous post when i said that i "usually don't like food in bar format."

this is wholly false. i like granola bars (a little too much), pria bars, luna bars, fiber one bars...and now muffin bars.

yes, i do have a crush on the quaker oats man

because he really knows how to work those oats. (and he is rocking the hat.)

i know my last product-related post was about another one of his fine products too...(Quaker Oats Breakfast Cookies...v. yummy)

i just have to rave about one more...

Quaker Oats Muffin Bars (both blueberry and banana nut are good). (*Apparently these are so new that there are no images on google. I could, of course, take a picture, but i am way way way too busy. or lazy. you decide.)

140 cal, 3.5 fat, 4 fiber=2 points. very yummy and fluffier than nutri-grain bars. actually pretty filling and satisfy the iwannaeatamuffin cravings.

i know. i am a carbaholic.

in other news, i'm happy to report that my stomach may actually be shrinking. yes, i ate 24 points, exercised 3. meaning i can still eat 2 before bedtime. (this is a first folks) i think i may just have me a muffin bar.

Mega Evaporation

Do we evaporate at night? Cause I consistenly weight 2 lbs or so less in the morning, BP (before pee). But the other day, I weighed 3 (THREE?) pounds less. Where does it go? Do I sweat like a pig? (Where did this phrase come from anyway - I don't think pigs actually sweat, isn't that why they cool off in the mud?) Anyways. 3 lbs? That is about 1.5 liters of water. Where does it go? I don't wake up drenched in sweat, and it's not boiling out here or anything.

Now you might be say "Silly Bri, your scale must be off". But no no no, I weight myself constantly (I know I know, I shouldn't, but I can't help it). I weigh myself several times before bed (BP, AP, you name it) and in the morning (BP, AP, after shower, nekkid, not nekkid, after eating, etc.) This several pound weight loss trend really exists.

OK, enough of my rambling. Today was a SVD! Yay! Though I only ran for 20 min. boo. ate 21 (am brushing teeth now to avoid hubby's nightly ice cream fest), exercised 24, flex left 21.