2:00 pm update

For breakfast at 9:00 am, I had the scrambled eggs with veggie sausage. It comes in a little cardboard cup and you add water and throw it in the micro. About midway through I took a peek and it still looked like yellow soup, so I was pleasantly surprised to see what appeared to be scrambled eggs at the end of the time. It was HOT HOT HOT, but the texture was very much scrambled eggs. It was a big bland, but I usually like bland, so no problems there. The 'sausage' was a little like the bit of sausage you get on a large delicious Totinos freezer pizza, but not horrible. I also drank a half a bottle of 0 calorie vitamin water.

By noon my cats were playing hide and seek in the Nutrisystem box, so I hauled their furry butts out. I can see these boxes are going to be a problem with the cats, so I imagine the coming weeks/months I'll be picking a lot of cat fur out of my food. Does cat fur have calories?

At 2:00 pm I had lunch. I'm still really full from last night's chicken piccatta et al, so had a later lunch. Digging through my box I found more crap that was substituted for the original crap I ordered. Of course, I'm too f'in lazy to actually do an inventory and I have a feeling by the last week I'll be starving because honestly, there's NO WAY I'm eating peanut butter granola bars (gag) or split pea soup. Anyway, lunch was a foil bag of chicken salad. It suggests you spread it on Melba toast, which I didn't have, so I substituted a Duraflame fireplace log, and the taste and texture was about the same. No, I'm kidding. I didn't have Melba toast so I just ate the chicken salad. Not bad. The texure was a little too smooth, kinda like chicken salad pudding, and it tasted a bit too much of relish for my tastes, but heck, I'm suppose to lose weight and if it was really tasty, I'd probably eat 4 or 8 for lunch.

The one thing I like about the Nutrisystem program is the food is basically microwave and go. No freezer needed as a lot of it's dried or something. I HATE cooking for myself (yet oddly, I'm always looking to see what cool cooking classes Sur La Table is offering) so having the option of heating up a microwave meal, or cramming a couple of handfuls of Oreos in my mouth, I guess I can eat the healthier option.

As for hunger level, as I said before, I'm still really full from last night, and I typically don't eat breakfast and will eat either a late lunch or just dinner and snacks for the rest of the night, so I'm already two meals up on where I usually am this time of day. I'm drinking Eating Right brand vitamin water, because it's got a bit of fruity flavor, it satisfies my desire for juice. It's also got 0 calories, so that's got to be a good thing. Hmmm. It also has a 'caffeine' boost. Hahahaha. So that's where I got the energy this morning to rock out on my air guitar when I was blasting music.

As for exercise, other than the rocking air guitar this morning, I haven't got out of the house yet. I have horrible pain in my heel from a bone spur, scoliosis in my lower back which causes me to hunch over like Quasimoto and scoliosis in my upper neck which causes it's own brand of pain. Truthfully, the air guitar playing did loosen up my neck and shoulders so I may have to do that more. I'm going to ride my bike up the street to mail off some bills, so if I take the long way, I can go 4 blocks in one direction and zig zag back and forth for the 7 blocks which is the depth of our neighborhood. That should take about half an hour or more (if you've never seen an almost 300-pound, 45-year old woman, straddle a cruiser bike, then hell, you simply haven't lived!). Unfortunately, I have to go passed my kid's grammar school, so hopefully my kids and her friends won't be out front laughing their little butts off. Not that I mind being laughed at (hell I should get one of my friends to video tape me, so I can have a laugh myself), but I wouldn't want the little urchins hurting my kid's feelings.