Tired of being this tired
I don't post about weight loss much because I've been stagnant.
Actually I lied. Not stagnant at all.
In fact, since we got ripped out of our old jobs on May 1 and put into our new reality, I've gained everything back that I lost since Jan. 1.
Of course, I'm the last Mohican standing from the Dream Team. So I ain't got nothin' to complain about. At least my paycheck keeps coming and I have the opportunity to keep working my ass off for it.
(My bestie's last day of work, this week. I miss her so much already.)
And I'm tired.
Not of the work, the job or the incredible shrinking number of friends who are still there with me.
(The "mean girls" at dinner Friday. I love us!)
I'm tired of always having to be "on." Of saying yes a whole lot more than I want to.
And that, lately, has been true of cakes and beer and chips and BREAD OMG BREAD and other things that I've avoided like the plague these past two years.
Yes, yes to all of it! Especially the 2-for-1 wine specials at our favorite after-work haunt.
I've been slipping with my weight loss because I'm sick of my friends ordering what they want while I'm trying to be "good."
I'm sick of ordering the "healthy" option, only for it to be 25 SmartPoints and I'm only supposed to have 30 in a day.
It's exhausting to ask disinterested servers what's in this and can you change that up. I hate being "that" customer and I hate that half these people waiting on me (or their kitchen staff) can't get it right, anyway.
It's frustrating to need something to crunch on when you ask for help and they either lie and claim they have no time to help ("But by all means, call me for anything else you need, even any of the 'grunt work' because I'm not above doing whatever it takes to help.") …
Or, worse, they claim that they helped. (In six minutes? You read a 17-page Word doc TWICE in SIX MINUTES before your daily extended lunch break? No one else got a lunch break. Or, ya know, FOOD.)
I'm tired of corking these feelings. And of complying with this person's rules for when I can and cannot leave my desk.
And of never feeling safe. And of letting my mind wander to what would happen to mom and me without money to pay the rent. Hard enough for her to be sick in a house where everyone is loud and nasty and meth-addicted duck-murdering and Trump-voter-level deplorable. Better here than in the streets, though.
I'm going to turn this around. There are going to be some big changes this week. New routine. And a couple other new things I’m not ready to reveal yet.
Out with the old, and that includes the pounds …