<p>No workouts today - I’m out of clothes and I need to do laundry.</p>
<p>BTW, I’ve worn CW-X Insulator (tights and shirt) and they have done a good job keeping me warm the last two days without heat. I’ve worn them under a fleece top and warmup bottoms. They are pricey and show every inch of fat on your body but they are comfortable and functional.</p>
<p>My diet has been awful through the outage. A lot of supermarkets and restaurants are closed and we didn’t do our weekly grocery shopping. I imagine that idad doesn’t have power or internet right now or we would have heard from him by now.</p>
<p>Today’s run: 8 x .25 mi with my new Garmin. Oh I think I love this thing. The best part was not having to keep track of how many intervals I had done. I get kind of delirious after about 4 reps, and start questioning my counting abilities. The only problem was that I misunderstood the directions so I stopped my workout before the cool down, but that’s ok, I’ll know better next time. I was happy that there were no problems with the gps. After my phone experience I was beginning to think I might live in a gps free zone or something.</p>
<p>Well the physical therapist can’t see me till next week but I rejoined the gym & immediately did a 30 min aerobic workout.
I felt very virtuous and wanted to go for longer but my knees were feeling wonky.
I was happy to see they still had most of the same trainers ( who are very good), they had changed some of the equipment & the configuration but still recognizable.</p>
<p>Going today after I buy the Halloween candy & finish the decorations.</p>
<p>90 minutes in the gym today. Biking and weight machines. Feel good. Think I will make soup for dinner. Hope everyone survived the snowstorm! Thinking of you idad!</p>
<p>Internet, cable, and phone went out overnight and was off Sunday morning when I woke up, but we still had power (amazingly enough). I ran the snowblower about 8 am (trying out my new snow parka without the liner) and then, thank god, took a hot shower when I finished. At 11 am Sunday morning, the power went out. I think the power company shut it off after a morning inspection found “issues” with tree limbs across power lines. It was off for about 27 hours, coming on just a half hour ago when I was making a lunch and Dunkin Donuts coffee run (the nearby town has power). My house got down to 50 degrees last night, which is pretty chilly. I’ve been walking around in heavy fleece pants, a 300 wt fleece jacket, a fleece skull cap, and fleece gloves!</p>
<p>Tuna fish and salad for dinner last night, prepared by flashlight. I transfered the big pot roast I had planned to cook on a snowy day into the freezer along with other perishables. Looks like the freezer barely got above freezing – the ice cubes has just started to melt, so I’m good on that score. I’ll go through the fridge and get rid of anything questionable – like old tartar sauces and stuff. I’ll do the pot roast tonight, I think.</p>
<p>No workouts for me. With no heat and no hot water (and therefore no shower), I wasn’t about to get all sweaty and gross. I may or may not get one in tonight. I’m feeling a little hammered from a day without heat.</p>
<p>My house is up to 61 degrees, so we’re gettin’ there. It’s just amazing how cold 50 degrees feels like when it’s inside.</p>
<p>Speaking of delirious, when I do intervals on the Airdyne, I have to line up eight toothpicks (or however many intervals I’m doing) and physically one after each interval to keep track!</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about you northerners and hope you get back to warm soon! That was a terrible early snow! I would be miserable with the house at 50 or 60 degrees. I can barely stand 70 inside! You will shiver away a lot of calories, though!</p>
<p>Yeah. Except that a 50 degree house, a bowl of halloween candy, and lunch at Wendy’s is not a great combination! I did have salad for lunch and dinner yesterday (couldn’t even heat up soup), so I guess that counts for something!</p>
<p>Headed to the basement for New Rules of Lifting for Abs before trick or treaters may or may not come. Got the iPod charged out in the car this morning and just loaded it up with Fox News Sunday interviews that the DVR missed (along with the Patriots game) yesterday.</p>
<p>OK everyone – I found my new gym here in Cambridge, so I can officially come back to this thread! I checked out a couple on Friday – one was a chain place that had very nice facilities, but I’d have to either drive and pay for parking (I figured $1.50/visit) or take a bus both ways, which would add $3.40/visit. The other one was also very nice; women only (which I’m neutral about) but I could walk to it or have free parking. However, both were pretty expensive. The one I went to today, which I joined, is less expensive than the one I go to near our beach house, has free parking, and is right next to a Whole Foods, so I can food shop on the same trip. Plus it’s very close, and I can take back streets to get there. No towel service, but the one at the beach doesn’t have that either. Membership includes 3 sessions with a personal trainer and nutrition counseling. Now to get back into my routine.</p>
<p>No power issues here, but the rest of my family out in western MA got hammered. Oh, and the town in CT we just moved from got whacked really badly – so at the moment I’m not missing our previous house surrounded by 2 acres of trees … H’s nephew got married Saturday night in the midst of all the storm madness. Lots of changing plans, but by the end of the night they were, indeed, married. They’ll have great stories to tell at their 25th …</p>
<p>Making pumpkin soup for dinner. Happy Halloween to all!</p>
<p>Congrats, CBB. And the pumpkin soup doesn’t sound bad either.</p>
<p>iDad – the Wendy’s chilli is not at all lethal. H used to get a salad from wendy’s, no dressing, and a small chilli and combine them for a taco-salad like experience. </p>
<p>I’m surprised to be reading about all you east-coasters without power having to go elsewhere for food and coffee, or prepping food in the dark. No gas stoves? No wind-up lights? We have a nifty space heater certified for use indoors that runs on the quart-sized Coleman cylinders, and if push comes to shove we can isolate a room, plug in the CO monitor in there, and bring it up to the high 60s for nearly a week. I can cope with being without (much) heat, but the availability of soup, coffee, chilli, tea,… is part of what makes it bearable.</p>
<p>Story of my life, I guess. Chili was my plan going to Wendys, but they were out of chili! So, I had the spicy chicken sandwich instead – which has some carbs, but is not too horrible. I couldn’t handle another salad. I needed something hot.</p>
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<p>I can rig up a Coleman camp stove to the propane tank on the grill, but the deck was covered in wet snow and, frankly, it was easier all around to drive a mile in the warm car and get Dunkin Donuts coffee. I was planning to grill a steak outdoors for dinner if it came to that.</p>
<p>Light was no problem. I’ve got plenty of flashlights and all my batteries were fullly recharged. I even left one on low last night just to have a little light in the house.</p>
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<p>Just finished up a NROL4A workout. I flew through it to get done before trick or treat. Heavy weights all around and I’m a little sore now. A hot shower afterwards sure felt good, though! Fresh pot of coffee brewing, Marcella Hazen’s pot roast in red wine simmering away in the oven. Life is good with heat and electricity.</p>
No power. No hot water. Estimate is, at least until Thursday. I’m guessing Friday late night. I’m in NJ with power and all the luxuries but DH is home alone with the dogs. He has lots of invitations to stay with friends with power, but because of the dogs prefers to sleep at home.
I’m getting damn sick of this. We were out for five days from Irene. This will be at least another five days.
Did I mention one of my dogs was bitten by a coyote? Very nasty. He’s got a drain in the wound and is wrapped up in a towel and an ace bandage. All comes off tomorrow.
Edit: This post has nothing to do with diet and exercise, but I fell like you’re all friends now, so – this is what’s new.
Job is so stressful I lost another pound last week. I’m the lightest I’ve been since after major surgery 33 years ago.
<p>Arrrgh. I feel for your hubby. No heat and electricity gets old fast. Having to clear snow before Halloween oughtta be punishment enough. Then, to have extended power outages is cruel and unusual punishment. I’ve got to tackle a huge tree limb that fell against my house tomorrow. I couldn’t deal with it today, not knowing when I would be able to shower and get warm. Pretty scary Sunday night as you could hear trees breaking, constantly – “CRACK” – like rifleshots. I had one that grazed the house and one that grazed a car, fortunalely just leafy limbs, no damage.</p>
<p>I’m back in business. Hot shower, fresh coffee, good dinner. Looking forward to sleeping in PJs instead of fleece pants, fleece top, and fleece beanie.</p>
<p>I had a cat with a bite wound and a drain – basically a string inserted through the leg. Every night, I had to give the cat tranquilzers, dab it with hyrdrogen peroxide, and pull the string through the leg so it wouldn’t scab over. What a nightmare. I learned to do it really quickly!</p>
<p>Enjoy the pajamas, heat and good food, iDad. We just got slammed with Trick or Treaters. It was constant, and the giant dog had to greet each one. Many of the kids know him from his walks and they would shout, “Look! This is Charly’s house!” it was so funny. Only 5 miniature Mounds left, and I hate them! Even my yoga studio had candy. </p>
<p>Our gas works when there is no electricity. We have oil heat, but I think it needs the electric thermostat. The only time we’ve lost electricity for any length of time has been the summer.</p>
<p>Whatever made me so sore on Saturday has subsided. It didn’t hurt at all standing around at the Halloween party, I really noticed it when I stood up from sitting for a while.</p>
<p>We didn’t get enough trick or treaters, but dh will probably take some candy to the lab saving me from too much temptation.</p>
<p>I started handing out big handfuls of candy by around 8 pm. I did NOT want any left over. What we still have is what DH bought that he likes (and I don’t eat), and he’ll take those to work. Whew. If I don’t have any, I don’t miss it. If I start eating them, though…</p>
<p>Down 23 pounds so far. Gotta start exercising. May be a good reason to quit my job. :)</p>