Garage woes

After  really good week of eating well and keeping to high and low calorie days, and a nice weight loss (down 5 lbs from the previous Friday, 2 lbs down from my pre-holiday weight), I went a little crazy on Friday.  I went way over my calorie intake, I stayed pretty close to myfitnesspal's recommended calories on Saturday (1350 out of 1360) and on Sunday was high again with a 7 mile run.  It doesn't really feel like a winning weekend, so I guess I will see how that affects my Friday weigh in.

I am having a hard time today controlling my thoughts around food and wine.  I've been good, I haven't indulged in anything, but I definitely would like to grab a coffee (not going to) and would like a glass of wine (I drank the last of my wine Sunday night) this evening.  Chris said he was planning on making Cream of Potato soup Sunday, which I was looking forward to, but we had a busy day so he didn't make it.  So he made it last night, but it was a low calorie day, so broccoli, brussel sprouts and mushrooms it was.   =(

I was pretty active over the weekend, oh, I didn't do anything fun, but I did clean out my garage.  I meant to take a before picture and forgot, but it was a mess.  It's still pretty full, but with 2 loads of stuff gone (one to Goodwill and one to the dump) it's emptier than it was.  I can't even say I organized it, unfortunately.

Goodwill run

Some of the stuff I sent to Goodwill I've had in my garage since the last time we moved, close to 4 years ago.  That white cabinet in the picture above was part of a hutch that I got 20 years ago (I still have the bottom of the hutch, it's full of stuff I should toss as well).

The problem that I had with actually organizing my garage was this:  I started the project on Saturday when Chris and Damian were both working.  I was doing it on my own and took half the stuff out of the garage, organized it (a little) and then put it back in, with the intent of taking stuff out to get to the back of the garage to organize the next day and then put it all back in nicely.  Well, on Sunday when Chris and Damian helped me, they didn't want to take everything out, they just took things out of the back of the garage that were going to be given away or tossed, and everything else stayed.  Nothing got organized like I wanted, and it all just stayed in the (cleaner) mess I had done on Saturday.  I'm thinking that to get it how I want it to be, I will have to work on it again alone.  ; )  It is better, the paths to places are wider, so that's a win, right?

I ran 7 miles on Sunday.  I wanted to run earlier in the day, but we went grocery shopping and came home at lunch time.  I ate and couldn't run right after, so started working in the garage.  I finally ran about 2pm and didn't really feel like it anymore.  I got 7 miles done, but was kinda done with it before I even started. 

Anyway, today is another low calorie day.  So I guess I'll have to think of what to eat for dinner that doesn't totally wipe out my calories and isn't the same as yesterday.