Grumbles

My pants say I'm down; my scale says I'm up. Way up. Four pounds in just a handful of days. I don't think so--- oh wait. I've been eating salted cashews (Yummy protein!) aaaannnd I'm dehydrated. OK. I'm retaining water. Whew! That one's easily solved. Unlike my other grumble.

Counting calories is hard to do when you only have half the tools. My new Sparkpeople software is great! As far as it goes. I can scan stuff, and it searches its database, and usually there's something in there. As long as the food is bought. But bought food isn't the healthiest food, and one of the things I try to do is make a fair amount of our food. I'm not as successful right now, but still, I make some. Figuring out the calories on that stuff is not easy. I have software that does it... but it didn't get moved to my new computer and now it's packed. The other tool that I'm missing is my little kitchen scale.

Drat. This business of having the house on the market and a bunch of our stuff in boxes is for the birds. I hope we move. SOON.

Not Doing So Hot

I'm really looking forward to when Andy comes home again: I'm not doing so hot and he is always such a help. In my defense, Monkey nor I are feeling terribly well. He's got a cold and I've got a tooth that needs a root canal. But I should still be drinking water. Odd that the dentist was able to put a tiny little smoking cold cotton puff on my tooth and it didn't bother me in the least, but drinking water makes it feel very weird. Not painful, exactly, but definitely odd. Fortunately this isn't something that's going to last as I'm going to have the thing fixed up. Anyway, I haven't exercised all week. I've had barely any water. On the positive side though, I think that I only gained 2 pounds while we were out East, so that's something.