Laziness...

It's looking like the weather predictors are going to be right and it might actually be an El Nino winter.  I hope so!  We need the water in CA and I do love listening to the rain!  Unfortunately, I seem to be using a couple hours of rain as an excuse to not get outside and do my run/walk.  Technically I am on week 5 day 3, but it has taken me about 7 weeks to get there.  It all started with the little tweak in my back and continued with rain excuses.  So I've only been doing 2 run/walks per week.  I wish I was more disappointed, but I'm just happy to be doing something.  I'm still getting at least 30min of exercise in daily so that's the most important thing!  Another excuse I keep using is that the dogs are a pain in my butt out there.  But they need their exercise too and I don't know that it is a good idea for me to do too much while I'm on such a low calorie diet.  I do get dizzy and even more hungry when I have more than exercise.  What I suppose I should do is take the dogs out for my warm up, bring them back in and head out for my run/walk and then give them a longer walk in the evening.  Or vice versa-do their longer walk in the am and my run/walk in the evening.  It's only 30min 3 times a week after all!!  So silly!  So that's why I think it is just laziness.  :-)

I am starting to feel a little like it is my last semester in the school year again.  You know that point?  Where it's so close you can taste it, but not quite close enough? I have been at it for 122 days according to My Fitness Pal.  It gave me the 120 day streak 2 days ago, so that's probably an estimate.  :-) I have 45 days left until I start the 4 week transition.  Putting it like that makes it look like I am well on my way to transition.  Yeah!  Just over a month.  Less than a travel nurse assignment.  Phew...I have bought a couple new spices and will try out some new recipes the next few weeks.  That ought to keep me going.  I finally bought whole bean coffee so that I can use my grinder and french press.  I didn't quite make grind enough beans.  I'll have to work on that.  I used the calculations on the kettle and the grinder, but then realized that I don't really know if the kettle thinks of a cup as 6oz or 8oz or 5oz or any of the other ways cups of coffee and tea are measured.  Ah well, tomorrow I will use more beans (or less water).

I've also started researching kitchen equipment to buy.  I had made a list of rewards several weeks ago and haven't bought any yet.  I could have bought 2.  One of the things I'm rethinking is the steamer.  I think I might combine several rewards and get a fancy counter top multi-cooker or electric steamer.  The kitchen aid looks really nice, but it's pricy.  There are cheaper options, but since it's a reward I want the best.  I think the 200lb mark I will get that reward.  That way I will have it for transition week!!  The other reward that I haven't bought yet but really want to before transition is cute bowls and plates.  The only thing I was thinking on the plates is they can wait because I do have those smaller ones, so they aren't needed for transition.  SO, I think the other thing I will get before then is my cute smaller bowls.  I might even just buy one here and there and have a cute little collection of mismatch bowls.  The other thing I really want to buy is a spiralizer.  I could get the fancy Inspiralized one, but there are cheaper options that work as well too.  That can be a later goal as I know they really just want us having steamed veggies when we enter transition.  I really think I will get good use out of the multi cooker.  Esp since you can do grains, veggies and meat all at once.  We can't have grains for a while, but eventually.  I feel like I could have everything prepped the day before and even in the steamer dishes and then just throw it in when I get home from work, turn on the steamer take the pups out for 15-20min and then come home and eat.  See?  I have it all planned.   That's the key to success right?  I'm going a little crazy reading all these healthy recipes.  I should start pinning them for the future.

Other than starting to feel slightly bored, I am doing well.  I have cut back on the fluids and I plan to really add up my fluids for the day and not just water.  I think that cutting back a little has helped with the dizziness.  It has been better for sure.  I'll keep it up and we will see.

On a non-diet topic...I can't remember if I mentioned I took out the personal loan to pay off my credit cards.  I will be sticking to a very strict cash budget for the next 18mo which will hopefully continue after so that the money I was paying for the debt can be saved for a down payment on a condo in about 6-7 years.  I could save 100000 by then which is just enough of a down payment in the bay area!  That's almost an entire house or a 50% down payment in Kansas City!  So crazy!  It would actually be a decent down payment in SoCal as well if I'm ready to make that move by then.  I will be only 15 years from retirement by then after all!

Yikes!!  One day at a time....geez...