Day Eighty-Three: Rough Week

It was kind of a rough week at work--lots of running around, all three people in my office with computers down from various reasons for two days, etc, which is why no blog posts. All I want to do at night is crash. I sort of solved the eating problem by having caramelized onions and eggs with a piece of toast for dinner three nights in a row, which has the added benefit of being very fast and easy to cook, once you've caramelized a large batch of onions. Although it doesn't taste excellent, having no freaking butter. Scrambled eggs should always be cooked in butter.

Is anyone else a little freaked out about the last week of exercises? Those who have gone before have talked about supersets and how hard they are. I feel like the workout this morning was more than difficult enough, thank you. SEVEN sets of triceps dips!?!

There is a nice little story from yesterday, though. Running late in the morning, starting the workout ten minutes after the drop-dead time, already going to be late to work. All through the workout, I'm telling myself, "JFD. You will be running from now until 9:30 pm and this workout has to get done now. You can skip the stupid time-consuming planks and do 8 min abs tonight." I justified skipping those planks six ways to Sunday, and then, when the workout was otherwise finished, found myself doing a plank, marveling the entire minute and forty-five seconds that it was happening. Only the first one was any good, as usual, and I skipped the last set. But it still felt like a personal triumph.

Finally, the body image stuff. Today, wore new jeans for the first time. They're the same size as the ones I've been wearing recently, but cut to be less forgiving at the waist, and they feel good on. On the other hand, I went to the tailor yesterday to order a formal dress for an event in November, and got charged extra for being an inch bigger than the largest LAG size. Okay, that was more funny than upsetting. I spared a moment to feel sorry for the LAG measuring me, considering her likely fate in Grace's disaster movie scenario.