Pre Load the Day

I woke up early this morning and figured going back to sleep would be dumb. Early for me is 7am. If I wake up earlier than that well then, yeah, it makes sense to try to get more sleep but to be honest, getting up is always a good idea. Just get up. Do it. 

Also, I was super hungry. Last night's dinner was minimal and I didn't have any sort of snack around 8pm or anything. So 7am was hungry time. 

If you look at the log of meds/food/etc that I've been keeping you'll notice I don't usually eat until after 10am, sometimes not until after noon. One of the medications I'm on is an appetite suppressant and it is effective. I take it in the morning and I am absolutely not hungry at all. Which is good. But after being on it a year you'd think I'd have lost 100 pounds by now. 

So I made an early english muffin, sat with Toffee, played phone games until it was time to start working. I did some banking, noticed that the student loan payment I sent in for Doug still has not cleared and I mailed it 10 days ago. Everything else I've paid has cleared. My town doesn't have an online service for payment for electric or water/sewer so those go by check. And the student loan people will not allow Doug to pay online, which is ridiculous and stupid. I hate them. 

Work was super good. Busy, a couple good meetings, 1:1 check in with my boss. Fun times with the work son. And we do a bi-weekly office hour with the clients and that is always my favorite meeting. I got dinner started, shoved it in the oven and hit the treadmill. 

I was interested in hitting the mile, but not interested in trying to break 15 min. pace so I just semi-jogged and sometimes walked. It helped that the playlist knew my vibe. Great songs but all around a 19 min. walking pace until Mr. Brightside came on, and I did run to that one. Such a great song. 

Doug and Geoff took an errand today to the registry, and while they were gone I vacuumed, dusted, did the general cleaning for the living room and that made me happy. I thought Doug's cousin and his family were going to be coming through this weekend but it turns out that's next weekend. I have a lot to do between now and then, like clean the bathroom, hang up some art. Vacuum upstairs and the guest room. Little things. 

Managed to hit 10k+ steps after the treadmill time at 6:30pm which is super early. I always feel like I am on a good steps trajectory if I break 2k steps before noon. I broke that by 10am (thanks, getting up early!) so having that time to pre-load the day was very helpful. I sometimes find I'm only at 8k by 8pm, and need 2k more steps to hit the goal so I go back on the treadmill for 15 min or so. In nicer weather, that's a Toffee time walk. 

So happy tomorrow is Friday. I have some meetings and some dive in face first spreadsheet stuff that needs done before Monday, so I'll do as much as I can tomorrow and poke at it a bit over the weekend. There is no football this weekend, so no excuses for lollygagging. Maybe I can get Doug to help me do some things that I need done around the place. 

Maybe we'll go out adventuring. 

Who knows. 

Digits below! I took this screenshot from Facebook. Not sure why Lidl market is selling panties in their super random section.... I'm used to kids winter coats, kitchen ware, painting supplies... but panties? dude.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill, 31 min/1.72 mi (had to let a song finish so that's why 31 and not 30). 11k+ by bedtime

blood glucose:

7am: 84
5pm: 90
10pm: 152 (* see dinner, should come down in an hour or so) 

food & meds:
7:30am: jardiance+phentermine
8am: english muffin w/pb and raspberry jam
12:45pm: roast beef and mild cheddar on 647 bread w/mayo. met+glip
6:45pm: 1/2 of a baked stuffed chicken breast w/cornbread stuffing and mixed veggies, gravy
8:30pm: met+glip
no wine/beer