LYNNABEL's CalorieKing Blog
Is it possible to have adult onset ADD? I can't concentrate on anything for longer than 3 minutes. This doesn't bode well for the mountains of school work for this semester. I keep having to parse tasks down to tiny, tiny bits in order to get things done. I say, "Alright, I work on this for 5 minutes and then I can stop". And sometimes I can't even make it 5 minutes.
On a positive note, the weight is coming off. Please, Universe, let it continue. I've completely dropped my prior s...
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Having a great weekend. I surprised the kids with a slumber party in the living room and a movie last night. The slumber party consisted of me, Will, and Ellen, sleeping on top of 5 thick blankets, and under 5 thick blankets. Ellie and I slept well, Will didn't but he still loved it. S is recovering from the most manly of endeavors - a vasectomy (and truly, no sarcasm - if I've learned anything about men, its that it takes some serious guts to allow anyone to do anything with a knife near the P)...
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OMG. Weighed myself this morning. Heaver than I have been in YEARS. Since Ellen was born. CRAP. I'm going to Haiti at the end of March - I normally don't do event-based weight loss but this requires drastic action. The weird thing is that technically none of my clothes should fit me, but most do. Maybe I'm carrying the weight differently. Xmas pictures were scary.
I am in an anxious funk that I expected to pass much quicker than it has. A number of things seem to be intersecting in such a way as to make me feel both down and anxious/panicky. I'm going to write through them to see if it helps bring any clarity.
Weight - after feeling fairly thin for part of the semester, my weigh has jumped up about 10 pounds. I didn't eat awfully during the fall semester, but I stopped exercising about a month before finals. I am a pretty consistent, if pretty modera...
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