Day 358: Book Talk & Book Review….Eating My Feelings (sigh!)

Hola! So Thursday night ended up being nice! I worked on organizing my training class (typing up notes on things I want to work on; creating an action plan). I also read some more and chilled out with the fam! We’re doing SO GOOD eating what’s left at the house – it’s kind of crazy! I’m even bringing cereal to work tomorrow (with milk!) as we’re out of eggs! Very cool. Hehe I ended up at 1,860 calories, 267 carbs, 46 fat grams and 100 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

So I forgot to mention – at book club last night we chose a new book from my sister’s list! We’re going to read The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson, and we’re meeting in late September to discuss! Also, Shana (book club leader!) said I was to choose the next set of books for the book club – yay! So I need to bring 4-6 titles to the September meeting for the group to choose from. I was online purchasing ‘Swimming and looking for audio books and was like WHOA – these books sound GREAT! So I went ahead and bought them. Even though the club only reads one, I want to read/listen to them all! So here were my purchases (all audio books – it’s working wonders on my road rage!):

• Walter Moseley’s The Wave
• Janice Kaplan’s Looks to Die For
• Anita Shreve’s Last Time They Met
• James Patterson’s Sail
• Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook
• Nicholas Sparks’ The Wedding
• Mary Jane Clark’s Dancing in the Dark

I’m going to research them further to ensure they’re good book club reads, so I may put in some others for club! It just hit me – I can do my Time Traveler’s Wife review now that my club has reviewed it!



Here goes: I give it a 4 out of 5. I loved the story. I loved and believed their romance. I was very interested in his time traveling abilities, how it happened, the medical side, how he overcame it, etc. I flew through it and just enjoyed seeing how it all played out. So sad, but so good. I just thought it was a great story. Cons: there were some parts I could have dealt without – too weird, too disconnected from the story and/or didn’t add anything to the story. It took me a while to get into it. But – overall I could take the little bit of bad with the good. I cried. I laughed out loud. It was good stuff and I can’t WAIT to see the movie. Grrr Phipps Plaza grrr.

Friday started out good, but work got me down for various reasons outside my control. And I ate and ate and ate. And didn’t want to go to the gym. At all. During lunch or after work. I got home and had a long talk with Austin which made me feel SO much better, then we were off to a high school football game (Austin’s cousin is a senior this year). It was great to see Austin’s aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. His cousin won the game – yay! – then we headed home and ended up having a few glasses of wine, some snacks and great conversation! We don’t do that often enough, but it was great to just chill out together, just the two of us. I ate and drank way too much though – ending up at 2,470 calories, 331 carbs, 63 fat grams and 88 protein grams. Here’s what I ate. WAY too much food, snacks, crap. But it’s cool. Today is Saturday and I’m going to the gym and tracking BEFORE instead of the next day going…. Whoa… way too much food! Haha What do you to ensure you don’t eat more than you need? Do you track ahead of time, listen to your body, avoid random work food – what? Help me! Thanks, friends. Happy Saturday – hope you’re all have wonderful days. I’m off to read your blogs!

Head's up: My next post will be happy - i'm determined to have a good, productive day today, have fun at a birthday party tonight and I have home updates (in pictures) - woo!! :)