Money, Day 9: Luke’s Birthday

Well, I did pretty well.  Luke’s birthday gifts cost me about $40, and included a little soccer set, two wooden puzzles, two new books, a game, and toy train.   I’m very pleased by this, because that really was a pretty conservative birthday for ME, spendingwise, and yet Luke was very happy with what he got.   At three, of course, he doesn’t exactly have aspirations of Nintendo DSes and Wii games or anything, which definitely makes the going there much easier.. But in the past this wouldn’t have mattered that much to me.  This actually gave me a chance to examine how I handle gift-buying, too, which was sort of educational.

ADF/WW: Day 19

The Morning After.. Bleh.

ADF/WW: Day 18

Christmas! Merry Christmas, everyone!

I gave myself an I-Day for Christmas.  A day of ‘indulgence’, as it were.  During one of our failed attempts to revive our enthusiasm for Weight Watchers in the interim years, my Mom came up with a modified approach that basically included being very good six days a week, but the giving oneself a day to ’splurge’.  We called them Indulgence Days, or I-Days.

ADF/WW: Day 17

Well, I was good.  I ate a 3-point box of the Healthy Weight veggie blend (Mmm, Edamame!) for lunch, and then didn’t eat anything else until dinner.  I suppose if I were going to do the thing absolutely right, I would have foregone that too, but I was afraid I’d off the deep end once I got to Greg and Maureen’s house that night if I didn’t eat a little bit before I got there.   As much control as I can show in the morning on ‘fasting’ days, it’s a little different when you’ve eaten nothing all day and you arrive completely depleted to a place featuring a spread of crackers and cheese balls covered with pecans.   :/

ADF/WW: Day 16

Clash of the titans.  Andy and I went shopping today.  Because of various and sundry plans, the lengthy and angsty circumstances of which I will spare you from having to read, we have been assigned the responsibility of Christmas Dinner on Thursday even though Greg’s family is hosting Christmas this year for the Boeyink side.  We don’t especially mind this, as truthfully I think we’re more comfortable eating here than at Greg’s anyway, but the planning of such a meal under the present circumstances is bound to create issues.  And it did.

ADF/WW: Day 14

Two weeks down, one to go.   I have to admit, though, that I have stopped thinking of ADF as a 21-day experiment at this point.  I’m now pretty much mentally committed to it for the long haul, for good or ill.   If nothing else, it’s WORKING for me, and thus far I have not yet encountered any really convincing reason not to continue.

Of course, it’s easy to say that on an Eating Day.

ADF/WW: Day 13

Uuuuuuuunnng.  Social situations are the WORST!  I mean, I scheduled this thing specifically so I could be flexible in the case of social situations, but even so I can only go so far with it.   Last night was the big meal, but I forgot that today was the big brunch, AND it’s Susie’s birthday!  We had promised to take her to Chuck E. Cheese’s!

Score one for poor planning.  Not, I guess, that there was much I could do about this.  I couldn’t fast on Thursday after having fasted on Wednesday.  I guess maybe I could have fasted yesterday and just ordered steamed vegetables at the restaurant, but naturally I didn’t think of THAT until today.  Meh.

Sidenote: Setbacks

I had a setback of sorts today, and I wanted to write about it.   I can’t really count it as a true ‘failure’, because I didn’t violate my ADF plan, and didn’t fail to journal it.  In true point of fact, what I did today was not a big deal.

But it was a big deal to me.  So I want to write about it.

Round 1, Day 19: ADF

Score one for the blog.  Today I woke up for the first time and actually felt loathe to face the day.  It’s a fasting day, and as I was lying there in bed, I thought, “Wow.. I SO do not want to deal with fasting today…”  and for a moment I actually considered not bothering.

But then I thought… aieee!  I would have to mark down my first failure in the blog! No no no.. Cannot do that.  Okay, guess I’ll be good.

So here I sit, with a cup of juice.  Whatever keeps me going is good, right?  And I only have two days left to count my first 21-day success, too, so it’d be a really stupid time to screw up.