Day 52: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Let's do some math just for fun....  CSAP week(s) + PMS + counting calories = cranky hungry girl. I think it should be ILLEGAL to have to diet or exercise when you feel like you are a giant water balloon being shoved into work pants. I think I should be able to eat an entire box of girl scout cookies and call it dinner without any judgment when my daily task includes pacing around the classroom and watching my kids test. Wait! Does that count as exercise? I hope so, because I never made it to the gym today even though I promised myself I would go. Realistically, I was mad and annoyed as I drove home from work. Too much pressure, both with CSAP and within my own body- so I decided to shop instead. (more exercise perhaps!?) Now you KNOW its a bad day when I was too indecisive to buy ANYTHING! And then I debated... quick snack, then workout, then dinner? or dinner then workout? I chose C. Dinner, then sitting on the couch thinking about the fact that I didn't go to the gym and the piles and piles of laundry are still piles. Crap. What an unproductive night. So now I sit here, still wishing that I had eaten the cookies for dinner instead of the spinach pasta and tomatoes, still annoyed, still PMSy, still not wanting to endure 2 hours of watching my kids test tomorrow. Wow. What progress I have made....... .

In other news, I wanted to wear a skirt to work today. It was just warm enough that a skirt with light leggings would have worked perfectly. For those of you who work with me, you may have noticed (but probably not because who are we kidding?) that I indeed did NOT have a skirt on today. For those of you who don't work with me, I indeed did NOT have a skirt on today. There, that's better. Now we are all on the same page. So the skirt. I even steamed it this morning. I put it on aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it was HUGE. There was a tremendous gap from where the skirt ended and I started. This was an AWESOME feeling until I realized I now had nothing to wear for work today. Crap. I guess I should have listened to John last night when he told me to PLEASE pick out my clothes before going to bed so I didn't have to deal with it in the morning... but shhhh.... don't tell him I said that ;) I also managed to avoid ALL the food during the breakfast party in my classroom today. This included cinnamon rolls, panckaes, bacon, and donuts. Thankfully I have my own set of mini personal trainers in there who reminded me that I was not allowed to eat anything (but I could SMELL it.... gee thanks.......) and that "it would all be worth it for the dress". When did 10 year olds get so smart!?

Now, about those cookies.....
52 days down... 128 to go!

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