Diet Pills, Contact Lens Ban and Rental Car

I haven’t taken a diet pill since the day I posted about them (Monday). The reason for that is quite simple – I don’t want to mix my diet pills with caffeine for obvious reasons, and lately I’ve been getting my coffee too late in the day to then take a diet pill on top of it. Plus, I refuse to take the diet pills after 4pm because the side effects is inability to get to sleep. (I have enough trouble with that, believe you me!)

So as has happened before, as soon as I started complaining that I can’t lose weight to save my life, I suddenly lose more. This morning, I was able to fit into a pair of pants that were too tight on me ONLY LAST WEEK. So I am losing something, only it isn’t scale weight. I stepped on the scale this morning and it IS STILL THE SAME.

But I refuse to get upset, because frankly, I’d rather fit in smaller pants than lose scale weight, if it came down to it. Which obviously it is. One of my favorite BCBG hoodies, which used to be form-fitting, is now LOOSE. Seriously loose. I can’t understand it at all. Why won’t the scale move? Am I retaining extra water? It can’t be muscle because I’ve relaxed with the workouts. (After all, my elliptical machine is back in Tulsa, OK, and I’m here in Nashua, NH with only a stationary bike).

I just don’t understand it, at all. Oh well.

So, moving on… as I mentioned in a previous post, my car is in the shop getting its transmission rebuilt. So I’ve been renting a 2008 Chevy Malibu with Massachusetts plates since Saturday. I hated the car at first, but it has grown on me. The newer cars are really something… they have so many bells and whistles. Now I want a new car! But tomorrow morning I have to go pay $2400 to pick up my 2002 Honda Civic with its rebuilt tranny. Hmm… where is the justice in that? (In case you haven’t read my previous posts, my 2002 Civic has over 156,000 miles on it because I drove it all around the country the past six months, which is why the transmission pretty much gave out on it last week).

So onto non-weight related stuff… I found out yesterday that I’m not allowed to wear my contact lenses for an entire month! I went to the eye doctor yesterday afternoon because of a slight mishap that occurred over the weekend. (I didn’t mention it here – I basically was walking up my friend’s steep, icy, pitch black driveway and literally WALKED INTO A TREE BRANCH, which poked me in the damn eye). So I made an appt. yesterday to make sure my eye was OK since it seemed a bit irritated.

Well, the (extremely hot) eye doctor told me in no uncertain terms that I am NOT to wear my contacts for a month until I see him again. Apparently both of my eyes are irritated, slightly swollen, dry and just NOT good. I’ve been wearing contact lenses for 13 years, and apparently it has taken its toll.

So I’m stuck wearing my glasses for the next month straight! Which sucks. I can’t see as well with them. But I have gotten a lot of compliments on them. (Mostly from guys with eyeglass fetishes). They are the really cute, hip, small-framed type of glasses which I might add cost me well over $300. (I also paid extra so that they wouldn’t resemble coke-bottles, since I’m blind as a bat).

Too bad I can’t see for sh*t when I wear them!!!!! (Although the eye doctor said that within a week or two, I would be able to see better with them because my eyes would heal).

There is a lot going on in my life right now that I can’t even mention here, but suffice it is to say that I’ve been extremely busy. I’m planning on a trip into Boston (which is about 35 miles from here) sometime next week, which I’m looking forward to. Haven’t been there in a while. Plus I’ll get a lot of walking in while I’m there.