Oh the drama

So I was gonna be ON PLAN this week, including exercise, in an attempt to jump-start my little plateau here. Well, what’s that saying about the best laid plans? I was all set for spinning on Wednesday after work. I’d psyched myself up and I was going damnit.

Then my phone rang at about 4:15 and it was my son’s daycare. That is NEVER a good sign. It seems he had gotten sunscreen in his eyes THAT MORNING and they were calling to let me know that although they had washed out his eyes several times they were still watering and he couldn’t open them and he was crying that they were burning. Why on earth they waited all freakin day before calling me I have no idea.

I called his doctor before I went to get him looking for some advice as to whether or not I should bring him in. The receptionist was beyond unhelpful. When I got to him at daycare I decided that he did in fact need some medical attention so I called my doc’s office back and let them know I was bringing him in. The receptionist informed me that all their triage nurses had already left for the day and the the doctor was just returning phone calls right now, it was 4:45. I explained that because it was his eyes that I felt it was a fairly serious situation and she told me that she could have the doctor call me. :|

I hung up with her, said a few choice words and turned around to head to our local urgent care clinic. That place was thankfully deserted so we got in pretty quickly. The nurse was great but the doctor was clearly NOT a pediatrician. He had zero bedside manner for a small child. They numbed his eyes with drops and then flushed them with eye wash for what seemed like forever while he screamed and screamed in my arms. It was awful.

During the flushing the doctor explained that his eyes were numbed almost like he couldn’t understand why he was screaming. I wanted to be like, “Um, he’s screaming because a couple of strangers are holding him down, holding open his eyes and dripping cold saline in them. Oh and he’s TWO!” I didn’t though, I just held my baby until it was over.

After the flushing his eyes immediately looked better. They weren’t watering and the redness was already going away and he was no longer complaining that they were burning. Clearly medical attention was the right way to go. The doc then put some dye in his eyes and looked at them in the dark to see if they were scratched. And of course they were because he’d been rubbing his eyes all freakin day.

They aren’t badly scratched but it does require antibiotic eye drops every two hours. That is just a barrel of fun seeing as he’s totally traumatized now from the whole eye washing thing. Ugh, just three more days and we’ll be done.

Anyway, not only did I miss spinning on Wednesday I didn’t do any exercise at all. By the time I got home, had dinner, got the boy bathed and in bed I was exhausted. I guess I’ll be making that up this weekend with back to back spinning on Saturday and Sunday. Yay?!

My eating has been on plan this week however and I seem to be finding myself with a big cache of points left at the end of the day. That’s not necessarily good I think. I should probably start eating some more snacks during the day so I don’t cram a bunch of calories in my least active part of the day.

I have also discovered the joys of light chocolate soy milk for use in my version of a Hungry Girl “swapaccino.” The new HG book has a recipe for a raspberry mocha madness swappuccino but I couldn’t find any sugar-free raspberry syrup in town so I’ve modified it a little and it turns out to only be 1 point instead of the 2 points the mocha light frappuccino at Starbucks weighs in at. Plus it costs WAAAAYYYY less than $4.50 a pop. Here’s my recipe:

1 1/2 heaping tsp instant coffee
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp sugar-free French Vanilla Coffeemate powder
2 tsp Splenda
3/4 cup Soy Slender Chocolate Soy Milk

place all powdered ingredients in a glass and add about 2 Tbsp very warm water, stir until dissolved. Pour coffee mixture and soy milk in blender and add 8-10 ice cubes. Blend and enjoy.

It’s yummy and scratches the Frappuccino itch.

Here’s hoping my weekend is totally uneventful!

-Weight Loss Warrior

Arrrgghhhh!

The weigh in was much more disappointing than I anticipated. I gained 0.6 pounds. I know this happens sometime but I didn’t think I’d been that bad on Easter sunday. Of course I also realized that I had my entire day’s worth of fiber in a single meal yesterday morning. Maybe I’m retaining. Who knows!?

Regardless, it’s a new week and I’m not going to let a tiny little weight gain deter me. I am however combatting a seriously sore back. My back was all out of whack and I went to the chiropractor on Monday to get worked on. It helped but has left we sore in places I didn’t know I had.

I called in sick to work today because I can barely get up without whincing in pain. I’m skipping spinning today because that seems to irritate my shoulder anyway because of the posture I maintain during the workout.

I’m not taking the day off however, I’m going to do the Boot Camp workout here at home and hopefully that will loosen things up in my back as well. I feel gross just laying on the couch all day. Wow, that sure is a change for the better.

Hope you all have better weigh ins than me this week.

-Weight Loss Warrior