Weigh-in and a really good sliming story

I was actually dreading weighing myself this morning after being away for 6 days. Some things never change, right? In the old days, I wouldn't have gotten on the scale for at least 3 or 4 days after a vacation so the fact that I weighed myself this morning, is a SV in itself! 176.4!!! This is really great because last week it was 176.2. I am very happy with this number, believe me!

The problem for me with vacations is that for one thing, I do not get in all my water. No matter how I try, it just doesn't happen. The second thing I didn't do at all this week was formally exercise. I had the best of intentions to go to the gym but it never happened. I did go for a very hilly walk with Steve and Jordan, does that count? The third problem I had was that while I was counting my calories and staying at or under 1200 calories a day, I was NOT getting the calories from protein! I had 2 scooped out mini-bagels and 3 almost full slices of pizza (on different days!) not to mention other, not so protein fortified items...did I mention the pretzel M&M's? Um, yeah, 150 calories for that pack (or two) I had. For a great cause though, the proceeds went to the senior class of Bellport H.S. Who says I don't have school spirit?

This morning I was back at the gym, I am drinking my water and I will get in at least 80g of protein.

Ok, now to the sliming story. We got home last night from the airport around 6 p.m. and I just didn't want to go out to dinner. I decided to make this dish that Steve loves. Chicken & spinach over penne. Its basically chopped chicken breast, sauteed with lots of chopped garlic in a little EVOO..when the chicken is cooked, I add about 2 cups of chicken stock & a package of frozen spinach & season with s & p and some hot pepper flakes....I than add about 1/2 lb penne (cooked) in the pan and thats it. Ok, I was really hungry and probably ate a little faster than normal, but come on...3 bites of chicken and maybe 3 or 4 little penne pasta pieces and I was stuck!

I get up, walk around, things are kind of calming down. The phone rings and its my sister. We talk for about 15 minutes and I can feel the slime building in the back of my throat. She is being very chatty and you'd never know I was just living in her house for 6 days the way she was going on and on. Thankfully, I was on my cell phone and I was standing by my front door because the reception sucks in other places of the house. Normally I would be sitting on my couch, on a rug! Front door is surrounded by tile...do you see where I am going with this story? So, ok, I am getting ready to tell her that I have to run...literally and all of a sudden, I get this little tickle in my throat which made me cough....OMG...the slime that spouted out of my mouth and all over the tile was unbelievable! I yelled to my sister that I have to go and dropped the phone.

Steve came running around the corner and stopped dead in his tracks! "Wow...it really is slimy!" he said. No shit! Does he think I make up these little cute nicknames myself? I have to ask him to please go get paper towels because I am literally standing there with slime dripping off my hands as I tried to cover my mouth.

Lesson learned...never put off sliming but if you can't, tile cleans up very nicely!