One Hundred Days with No Sugar

I don't want to write today, but I don't want to drop this project, either, so I'll pull up my big girl panties and do it. I am still plagued by knots in my shoulders and back, even though I took a muscle relaxer yesterday and have been living from massage to massage (not professional ones).   I had to bake a cake for a funeral this morning.  So that was the first order of the day after I woke back up from getting Mark off to work.  I tried to get the cake mixed before the oven heated up, but, right in the middle, I realized I didn't have eggs.  I'd used the last two for Mark's breakfast.   I looked frightful, but I pulled on some clothes, wet down my hair, and hurried to the store for eggs, then finished the cake.  By the time I got to the gym, I did not have much time.  I did 23 minutes on the elliptical, and just abs, but I did five sets of six kinds of crunches.  I usually do three sets.  I just didn't have time to do a wh...

I had the day off, yes, but I was up in the night with a horrific headache.  I sat on the couch with a massage tool working on my upper back and neck for two hours until it went away.  When Mark got up for work, I helped him prepare food but then went back to bed.   I took the kids to school, then went back to bed.  Of course, this never works, because other people are up, and they feel compelled to text me. "I think I forgot my meds."  Et cetera.   I napped a little, then went to the gym.  I didn't have much time left to exercise, though, so I just did four rounds of elliptical and three of abs and weight-lifting.  I finished the weight-lifting routine I had started a few days ago.  All the songs randomly lined up on my iPod were under three minutes for the first three rounds, as if they knew there wasn't much time.  All in all, I burned about 258 calories. I spent the rest of the day finishing up my two sons' Eagle Sc...

I made myself do a plank before bed last night.  I picked the next longest song on my iPod, which was 3 minutes 7 seconds long, and I made it most of the way, but it has been so long since I did a plank that I did rest my knees, twice, briefly, before it was over.  I'll do the same song again next time and work up from there.  Before I started doing this planking thing before my sealing, I could barely do one minute, so I did improve. I slept pretty well, I thought, except that I woke up with a tension headache in the night.  I took ibuprofen, but still woke up with a bad tension headache when my husband got up for work.  He sets his alarm early enough that he could give me a massage for a few minutes, which helped.  It was after five when I finished making his eggs and pudding, and I should have gone to the gym then, but I felt really tired, and the loss of my headache was still new and flimsy, so I went back to bed. Well, you guessed it.  I didn'...

Here's what happened.  I had so much to say about Halloween and no time to say it in, and then the following days were the same.  I was very serious about counting calories and losing weight before my sealing, and I did lose seven pounds in the nine days.  I counted calories, I did planks in increasing lengths, and I did two workouts most days.  This left me little personal time, and I'm still a full-time working mom and the cook in the family.  Also the laundress, but I digress. Anyway, I did really well, and I kept track in my notebook--just didn't blog, until about day twenty-three, and then I went sort of off the rails.  I just didn't keep track for a few days.  When I started keeping track again, I saw that some bad habits had crept in.  I decided to start the hundred days afresh, and I did, but I wasn't blogging, see, and so my accountability was too low.  It was easy to say, "This will be day one," "No, THIS will be day one," until I...