Day 100 & 101: Weekend Vibes

 

Time for a new mission statement. My goal for 2025 was to lose 100 pounds by 12-31-25 but I've failed miserably. At some point I need to pick myself up and try. A realistic goal at this point is 50 pounds by 12-31-25, so that is where I will start. When will I start ? I don't know .. do I need a "starting point" ? I don't. Every day that I don't "start" just adds to my misery. I plan to just take each day as it comes and do what I can to move closer to where I want to be. Life has changed and I haven't been able to adapt just yet.

Yesterday was an uneventful day. I sat on the couch watching YouTube and playing online slots. I'm falling into the habit of taking my tablet to bed with me since Jackpot World resets at 11 pm and last night it resulted in me being awake until after 3 am. As a result, I didn't get up until about 9:20, which isn't awful. I'd have slept longer if I didn't have the cats waiting to be fed. I did manage to get a shower in by noon and it feels good to have a freshly washed body and hair. I also did my skincare. I wanted to start showering as soon as I get up in the morning, but I feel guilty making the cats wait that much longer to eat. So I'm going to adjust a little and plan my showers for right after breakfast. I've also adjusted my 8 am alarm for M-F only. I think it's fair to sleep in a bit on the weekend, since that was my routine while I was working.

Reigning in what I eat is going to be the more complicated task, since I bought so much "junk" when I shopped Friday. Right now I'm working on a 23 ounce barrel of cheese balls. They'll be gone soon ! I also have a cheese danish, which is standing in as my breakfast. Then there's the cherry pie. I had a slice of that yesterday and it stood in for my evening snack. I also have a large bag of hotdogs. I had two for dinner yesterday and they didn't seem as salty. Maybe because I cooked them a little longer ? I haven't opened the 2 bags of pretzels, so they'll be hanging around for a bit. I also have 24 pieces of chocolate. I had one yesterday and I'm continuing to limit myself to one per day. I'm trying to drink a bit more water and that's going to be an uphill battle. I've fallen into a habit of not drinking a lot all day but then I am thirsty in the evening and want to drink a lot. I haven't had to get up to pee during the night and that isn't a good thing. I'm in a constant state of dehydration. I have my water next to me and the plan is to have to refill it by 5 pm. It's 1:30 now ! I've been living on 2 cups of coffee and up to 1 bottle of diet coke all day, which is nowhere near enough fluids. This is by far the easiest thing to fix ! So get the water in, scale back on the junk food and the biggest challenge is going to be the treadmill. It's just pure laziness now. My cold is nearly gone. Coughing is an occasional thing and once I blew my nose this morning it was smooth sailing. So I'm on the mend and encouraged.

Tomorrow's challenge is going to be calling the IRS. That should be fun ! I don't understand how reporting an extra $584 of income results in owing an additional tax of $590. Somebody obviously goofed. I am braced to spend hours on the phone trying to get a live body ! I'm not stressed about it. I'll get it resolved and move on.

I decided to use a new header photo starting today, since I'm turning the page on the first 100 days of 2025. I kind of like the pastel confetti ! I have a lot of work to do if I want to get back on track to start losing this weight. Thing is, much of the work is little things ! Drink more water. Easy. Leave my tablet downstairs when I go to bed. Easy. Take a shower after breakfast. Easy. Get dressed. Easy. Exercise at least once a day. Easy, considering I'm not planning on running marathons on the treadmill. Eating right and eating less. This. This is the biggest challenge of all, but I've done it before and I can do it again. Right now today I'm going to focus on all the "easy" things. The hard things will come in time. It helps that winter is retreating, temps are increasing and the sun is shining a bit more. It's 51 right now (2:17 pm) and we have daytime highs in the 50's and 60's for the week ahead ! We'll still be dropping into the 30's at night but we're getting there ! I can't wait to shut off the heat for the summer and be able to open the windows and get some fresh air blowing through the house ! I'm also looking forward to spending time on the front porch this summer.

The online slots are a little bit of an obsession but the fact that the coins come and go keeps me from spending the entire day playing them. 88 Fortunes is a challenge because there are few options to earn coins and you use a lot of them to complete the daily challenge. Yesterday I was bankrupt but I scraped by once I found that out ! Today's challenge was completed fast because I got a big win on my first spin of a new game. Now I have to preserve the coins I have so that I can get through tomorrow's challenge. This sucks because they have several games I really like and would love to just play for fun. Dancing Drums is still my favorite as the daily challenge is repeatable and relatively easy to complete, but they don't really add much in the way of new games. Jackpot World is a lot of fun but the coins disappear way too fast. I couldn't play much today because I used up all my coins last night to complete today's challenge. Now I have to build up coins to get through tomorrow's challenge. The plan is to NOT take my tablet to bed so that I can get to sleep at a decent hour. Doing the challenges tomorrow morning will be more fun. CluBillion had been a disappointment for a while as I haven't been able to win much of anything. They finally fixed my favorite game and I was able to complete the bonus it got stuck on back in February. The results of the bonus were disappointing considering I had bet 400M coins. Last night I decided to bet much smaller amounts and wow .. I more than doubled my coins ! I kept getting the bonus and extra spins and just won and won and won. Lesson learned - I will bet less going forward. I'm also developing a strategy to make my coins last in Jackpot World. Many of their challenges are to bet x number of times or get something like 5 of a kind x number of times. Once you complete the first level or two of these types of challenges they add a caveat: you have to bet a certain amount. Problem is I'm usually low on coins by the time I get to this point because I bet too high. Starting tomorrow I will bet low on the challenges that don't require a minimum bet. The extra challenges are NOT required but they're fun to do. I also finally figured out how one of the side games work. For weeks I was bumbling through it and didn't understand how it worked. I finally paid attention and now that I figured it out it's a fun little distraction. I have a tendency not to read directions or think about things !