Oh so very tired... and yummy steak!

First, Happy Easter to those that celebrate!

Wow.  It has been a BUSY weekend so far and today is our small family celebration.  The 'rents were up yesterday and the day before, but we were so busy working on the house that we didn't get to do much.  Which isn't a big deal... We don't do a LOT for Easter.  It's just always been more about being together than doing a huge party or anything.  I do miss the days of going to my Granny's house to have a big dinner and visit, though.  I really should've done a dinner this year.  I just have SO much going on that I didn't think to.  URGH.  Maybe next year we will have our crap together.  LOL

I am very tired today.  All the work we've gotten done in the last two days has WORN ME OUT!  And we have a bit to do today, but not much.  We just want to get the house wrap up and do some clean-up so that the yard and driveway aren't such a mess and hazard.  Just in case you're curious, we ripped off an old nasty deck that was about 900sq. ft at one time.  We only had about 100-200 to take off now because the rest had been reduced and removed last year.  So, we took that off and then ripped off the old masonite siding off of the back of the house.  The front and sides had been done last year.  We then took out an old sliding door and discovered major water damage -- some structural.  All that has been repaired and we have framed in two windows instead of the door since it was in our bedroom.  Not a fan of outside doors in bedrooms!  LOL  THEN, we blew in green fiber insulation since there was only alumi-foil in the walls.  So, today is just about house wrap and clean up.  The siding will have to go up the next time the hubbs has some time off.  We also have to order the windows now that the rough framework is in.  I cannot WAIT to be done with this house!

See what I mean by busy weekend?  I am REALLY glad with all of that going on I had made the decision to go to carb cycling.  I had 3 or 4 days of moderate carbs, then a 24hr. period of high and then last night went back to low.  Still on low this AM.  But I tell you, I needed those carbs with all the work we did!  I think I would've been hurting without them.  We worked ALL day for two days.  I just don't think I could've done it!  I haven't weighed, though.  I decided to take some of your advice and step away from the scale for a bit.  I think it's the only way I can stop stressing and give this cycling a fair shot.  And hopefully break my horrid stall.  I think that if I stress over the numbers too much, I will just make everything backfire.  I really do hope this kick-starts something for me.  I know I feel a bit more relaxed already because I ate a couple of days of moderate carbs and then I let myself have a couple of things I had been wanting really bad for my 24hrs. of carbs.  Like, pizza.  Granted, it was thin crust and was grilled chicken, but still!  It's my fave.  :D  But before, I was in such a mindset that I was like I'm not going to eat that for a LONG time.  Now I feel like I can kinda relax and say, eh, we'll have that in a week or so whenever I decide to cycle.  It really is sorta nice!

But when to weigh is the real question?  My cycle FINALLY started and I'm not sure why it was a week late.  I've been pretty regular since I had my second child.  That could have something to do with my weight stalling out, too.  So, not only have I just got the carb cycling going, but I have my cycle, too.  Another reason not to weigh, yet.  LOL  But I need to weigh pretty regularly to see if anything is going on.  Maybe I am over-thinking it?  OK, let's just say for now that I will weigh myself next Sunday.  If I weigh before then, I will make a note of it but not focus on it or count it.  Just the Sunday weigh-in.  But I am going to try really hard not to weigh until Sunday.  On that note, I made an adjustment to my weigh-in page.  I think I've been subtracting wrong.  I was doing it from the first weigh-in of the month to the last week instead of going from the first week to the first week for my monthly subtraction.  I think doing it the the way I was, I was only actually calculating for 3 weeks at times.  So, I am doing from the first weigh-in of the month to the first weigh in of the next month for my monthly totals.  UGH.  Hope I'm not messing everything up by changing it now!

YUMMY!  My steak this AM was so good!  I had steak and salad for dinner last night and leftover steak for breakfast with eggs.  Yessir, YUM.  Overall, feeling pretty good and ready to get going now that my belly is full.  One thing I wanted to mention, though is that sometimes people really irk me and flat out piss me off.  A member of my hubby's family made a snippy remark to a young female member of the family so I shot one right back at him.  And basically because he had no retort, he made a comment about my weight.  I brushed it off (to him) and just was like, that's right I'm bigger than you and I can throw you around like a rag doll!  HA!  So much for you thinking you can make a fat comment and hurt me you dillhole.  He did hurt me, but he's not going to get the joy of knowing it.  I just HATE when people don't have a valid argument or can't think quick enough on their feet they resort to the fat comments.  Glad to know that's all you can think of -- you're one smart cookie.  NOT.

Ok, going to get off of here now and get some things done.  The driveway won't clean itself nor will the house wrap itself!  LOL  Later, chickies!