November 7, 2019
I woke up feeling refreshed. I became super angry when I noticed something missing from my bathroom mirror and I was impatient with my daughter while she was dressing for school. I was stressed about a high stakes meeting I had this morning for one of my projects.
All the managers in the company, the VP's and the President was scheduled to attend. This was a guest speaker that I brought to our company to help solve a problem. My role was to help the speaker find parking, greet the speaker, escort her to the meeting, help her set up her technology, introduce the speaker and then I was going to stay for the meeting. I'm down 2lbs.
I was excited about the presentation and nervous. So, I'm sure that my hunger and anxiety over the meeting lowered my patience. I also fell apart a bit during a call with my Mom and descended into a pitty party for about one hour. I picked myself up and put on makeup, which always helps me feel presentable, then I began preparing the introductory speech for my meeting. I drank a couple of sips of coffee with half n half before my guest and Murphy's Law arrived simultaneously. First, she couldn't find a parking spot which is no problem because my colleague can move her car to a handicapped spot and free up her space.
My co-worker was nowhere to be found and her phone was off. I gave up my parking spot to buy myself some time but my coworker still didn't answer. Then I decided to park in the student lot and run back to escort my guest. There were no parking spaces. Then I drove down the hill to the staff parking lot, and there were no spaces. Then I tried calling the auto guys to let me in the back, and there was no answer.
Finally, I told my speaker to head down to the conference room but she didn't understand how to get there. So, I told her to ask my co-worker Manual who was at his desk. So I ran back to my car and tried the auto guys again and they answered, hallelujah! I parked my car and ran to my office to find my guest speaker, my co-worker, and Manual telling her they don't know where the conference room is. Okay, I thought cynically, this is a great start.
We walked down to the board room which is very far from my office and the speaker forgot her presentation clicker. I offered to run, and I did run, back to my office to get the clicker. Then the clicker did not work. The presentation projector would not turn on until one of the managers selected the source button. Finally, we began our presentation a day late and a dollar short but nevertheless the presentation went off without a hitch and I got lots of kudos from the managers and the vice president.
As I walked back to my office, I noticed the guest speaker walking a few yards ahead of me. Normally, I would have asked her to breakfast and paid for her meal because she went out of her way to come give this presentation for me. But I thought about my diet and my "why" I want to be thinner and I thought how hard it would be to go somewhere and stick to a diet. I also thought about my perfectly good chicken sitting in the lunchroom waiting for me. So, I just went straight to my desk. But on my way, I couldn't help but feel like I lost a friend. The friend I'm talking about is social overeating Margaret. She's been with me for 13 years now. I don't like her and I want to get rid of her but she was always there to celebrate when things went well and to cry with me when things didn't go so well. In order to be thinner, I'm going to have to let her go. I'm going to have to find some other way of celebrating success and soothing myself when I'm sad. For today, I'm celebrating by writing this blog, which will double as a journal. One day in the future when I'm 70lbs lighter, I can look back over this blog and see how far I've come. And I can't wait to get to know the thinner me who might be surprised a lot more fun than the overeating me. I can't wait to meet her.
Great article: http://www.trimmedandtoned.com/how-savannah-ortiz-lost-100-pounds-after-receiving-a-huge-wake-up-call/
At 1 pm, my friends asked if I want to visit the holiday boutique. Little did I know that the boutique was mostly food. I tried a fizzy mango hibiscus drink that was really good. I ate two rice crispy treats, one was churro and the other was strawberry shortcake, totally worth it. I also ordered two jalapeno tamales. They were worth it too and they were vegan. But my diet is blown, so, I will need to run extra on the treadmill if I want to continue to lose weight.
Away from the prying eyes of my family, I ate some type of energy bar with nuts and dark chocolate, plus a mango naked juice. It was so good. But it was past the time that I wasn't supposed to eat, so my bad. It appears that I had my cheat day today.
I woke up feeling refreshed. I became super angry when I noticed something missing from my bathroom mirror and I was impatient with my daughter while she was dressing for school. I was stressed about a high stakes meeting I had this morning for one of my projects.
All the managers in the company, the VP's and the President was scheduled to attend. This was a guest speaker that I brought to our company to help solve a problem. My role was to help the speaker find parking, greet the speaker, escort her to the meeting, help her set up her technology, introduce the speaker and then I was going to stay for the meeting. I'm down 2lbs.
I was excited about the presentation and nervous. So, I'm sure that my hunger and anxiety over the meeting lowered my patience. I also fell apart a bit during a call with my Mom and descended into a pitty party for about one hour. I picked myself up and put on makeup, which always helps me feel presentable, then I began preparing the introductory speech for my meeting. I drank a couple of sips of coffee with half n half before my guest and Murphy's Law arrived simultaneously. First, she couldn't find a parking spot which is no problem because my colleague can move her car to a handicapped spot and free up her space.My co-worker was nowhere to be found and her phone was off. I gave up my parking spot to buy myself some time but my coworker still didn't answer. Then I decided to park in the student lot and run back to escort my guest. There were no parking spaces. Then I drove down the hill to the staff parking lot, and there were no spaces. Then I tried calling the auto guys to let me in the back, and there was no answer.
Finally, I told my speaker to head down to the conference room but she didn't understand how to get there. So, I told her to ask my co-worker Manual who was at his desk. So I ran back to my car and tried the auto guys again and they answered, hallelujah! I parked my car and ran to my office to find my guest speaker, my co-worker, and Manual telling her they don't know where the conference room is. Okay, I thought cynically, this is a great start.
We walked down to the board room which is very far from my office and the speaker forgot her presentation clicker. I offered to run, and I did run, back to my office to get the clicker. Then the clicker did not work. The presentation projector would not turn on until one of the managers selected the source button. Finally, we began our presentation a day late and a dollar short but nevertheless the presentation went off without a hitch and I got lots of kudos from the managers and the vice president.
As I walked back to my office, I noticed the guest speaker walking a few yards ahead of me. Normally, I would have asked her to breakfast and paid for her meal because she went out of her way to come give this presentation for me. But I thought about my diet and my "why" I want to be thinner and I thought how hard it would be to go somewhere and stick to a diet. I also thought about my perfectly good chicken sitting in the lunchroom waiting for me. So, I just went straight to my desk. But on my way, I couldn't help but feel like I lost a friend. The friend I'm talking about is social overeating Margaret. She's been with me for 13 years now. I don't like her and I want to get rid of her but she was always there to celebrate when things went well and to cry with me when things didn't go so well. In order to be thinner, I'm going to have to let her go. I'm going to have to find some other way of celebrating success and soothing myself when I'm sad. For today, I'm celebrating by writing this blog, which will double as a journal. One day in the future when I'm 70lbs lighter, I can look back over this blog and see how far I've come. And I can't wait to get to know the thinner me who might be surprised a lot more fun than the overeating me. I can't wait to meet her.
Great article: http://www.trimmedandtoned.com/how-savannah-ortiz-lost-100-pounds-after-receiving-a-huge-wake-up-call/At 1 pm, my friends asked if I want to visit the holiday boutique. Little did I know that the boutique was mostly food. I tried a fizzy mango hibiscus drink that was really good. I ate two rice crispy treats, one was churro and the other was strawberry shortcake, totally worth it. I also ordered two jalapeno tamales. They were worth it too and they were vegan. But my diet is blown, so, I will need to run extra on the treadmill if I want to continue to lose weight.
Away from the prying eyes of my family, I ate some type of energy bar with nuts and dark chocolate, plus a mango naked juice. It was so good. But it was past the time that I wasn't supposed to eat, so my bad. It appears that I had my cheat day today.
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