Red Red Wine, You Make Me Feel So Fine.

THE BIGGEST LOSER IS OVER!!!

Once again the cabbage soup diet was a success, allowing me to lose 9lbs in one week! My final figures for the 7 weeks of the biggest loser (I may have said 8 weeks before but I was mistaken) is 27.2 lbs or 11.5% of my body weight gone! Hoorrraaayyy!! That brings me to a total of 46 lbs lost in 3 1/2 months. 4 more pounds and I'm half way to my goal!! 9.1 more pounds and I reach my next mini goal and get to have a day at the spa! I'm going to book it soon for about a month from now. I know I can lose 10lbs by then. I rule!

So those of you that read this regularly know today is my long awaited cheat day. I had been dreaming about food all week debating how badly I should cheat and what I should have. But really, I've been really good today and with all the excessive I put in I don't think I'll end up that far off of my regular calorie intake. I had a pretty eventful and productive day...

After being up for 23 hours yesterday I jumped out of bed at 9am anxious to go to Dave's and weigh in. More because I wanted to make banana pancakes for breakfast then because I wanted to know my final result. (I have a scale in my bathroom for goodness sakes) So I roll into the parking lot at 9:35 when I get a text telling me the weigh in is from 11-12 for the final week instead of 930-1030. SOB! So I say to Lillie (my copilot for the day),

"Alright Lillie, lets go to Lowe's and get some mulch or something to make the yard pretty!"

All she did was look at me, but I know she was screaming "Heck yea, Mom! You're the smartest most awesome human I know!" on the inside.

So I roll the windows down, turn my music up and hit the road. I don't normally eat before a weight in, but I wasn't going to wait til 12 to eat so I stopped at Dunkin' for a coffee and turkey sausage egg white flat bread thingy. Not the best tasting thing in the world, but only 280 calories and a much healthier choice then banana pancakes. With caffeine and food in hand I head to Lowe's singing along with my Beatles, Dear Prudence "genius"playlist (which somehow included Thursday, The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac and The Used? Um...no iPhone. Thursday, The Used and The Beatles do not belong in the same category!! Dumb ass). When I get to Lowe's I realize, crap I don't have my Lowe's credit card (which gives me 5% off). Damn...

"WTF Lillie! I guess I'll go get the car washed."
"Mmmrrrfff" she replies with a head twitch and tail wag.

So I did. Then went home, got my credit card (which I had managed to throw away?), weighed in then went back to Lowe's. I had all these plans to put down mulch along my house, cultivate my garden, use left over stones to make a nice little border around the garden and to make a little area under my mailbox to plant some tulips or daffodils. I bought what I needed, got home and went to work. 5 hours later I am sunburned, exhausted and a nice blackish brown from head to toe. (I really get into my work). And all I got done was cleaning up and mowing my back yard!! It had been neglected for a while and I had a massive amount of acorn fragments, dead grass, twigs and pebbles (so many freaking pebbles!!) to rake and pick up. I was tired of my backyard looking white trash and once I got going I couldn't stop.

Don't get me wrong, it looks better then it ever has and I'm happy with it, I just wanted to do more then tedious BS work all day. My yard will never get me on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens but I work with what I've got at the moment! (which is random clumps of grass, lots of dirt and mostly weeds I hope look like grass from afar). I even destroyed my yellow tulips I was so proud of (the first thing I ever planted and it actually came back this year!) with the lawn mower cord. Blah.

Side note: It's not a good idea to get your car washed on a windy day that you plan to rake and mow a yard which is 35% dirt.

So according to My Fitness Pal, which I use to track my calories weight and exercise, 90 minutes of raking burned 596 calories and 35 minutes of mowing the lawn burned 348 calories. While I may have over estimated the length of time doing those specific things I also moved a crap load of heavy rocks, was on my hands and knees picking up rocks and sticks and was out there way longer then 2 hours 5 minutes. So between that and only eating 664 calories so far today I think I'm golden for my cheat night! Now I don't have any reason to feel even remotely guilty!! Aaaannnd, I'm enjoying a nice glass (ok maybe I'm on #2) of red wine right now. Yea, I'm a little tipsy so this entry is probably way too long and talks about things no one cares about but me. TOO BAD! :) At least the blisters on my hands don't hurt anymore...

I just got completely distracted and have no idea where I was going with this, so I'll just end it now. Leah will be here soon and we're going to Meritage! I'm super excited!! Even though my clothes are too big!!! That deserves both an "arrrggg" and a "whoohoo!"

Last minute thought: 94 HJY just reminded me today is 4:20. This is the first year since I've been 18 I haven't celebrated 4:20. Not sure how I feel about that...