The lost weekend

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for your incredibly supportive and sweet comments on Thursday's post. I was overwhelmed by your kindness.<br /><br />I was really worried about posting it, but I felt compelled to get it out in the open. Someone commented the truth shall set you free. So true. <br /><br />I haven't binged once since I posted "My Secret". I haven't figured out why sharing that information made a difference, but it seems to have opened a door for me. A door that might lead me to freedom from the shackles of my food issues.<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br />Now about my totally boring weekend....<br /><br />I'm not sure where the last two days went, but I feel like I didn't even have a weekend.<br /><br />Yesterday I woke up at 4am with the worst headache of my life. I rarely get headaches but this one felt like someone had taken a sledgehammer and hit me right between the eyes. I was wondering if I had a brain aneurysm or something equally fatal.<br /><br />I couldn't bear to have the blinds open, a light on, or the TV. I couldn't read because it hurt too much. I took a handful of aspirin (three) and went back to sleep until 2pm. I can't remember the last time I slept that long (maybe never). <br /><br />Even after I woke up at 2pm I felt like the headache was just on the verge of coming back (I still kind of feel that way). It was like my head was bruised inside, right behind my eyes.<br /><br />I still managed to get to the gym by 6pm and get in an hour of cardio. That's about the only thing I accomplished Saturday, plus grocery shopping.<br /><br />Today was another wasted day because my husband insisted I upgrade my laptop to Windows 7. What a fiasco that turned into (darn Microsoft and their stupid software!). <br /><br />After being on the phone with four different Toshiba support techs (I was using the Toshiba upgrade CD they sent me), I finally found out that in the last two days they've been swamped with calls from people that are getting errors when upgrading to Windows 7. They thought Microsoft had sent out a Windows update that conflicted with their Toshiba Upgrade Assistant CD and it was throwing errors. Nice.<br /><br />They talked me through the incompatibility issues, and after uninstalling some programs, I finally have Windows 7. They told me iTunes might not work anymore, but it does (thank God!).<br /><br />All I can say is big whoop. It looks almost like Vista to me, with a couple cool new features (but totally not worth the hassle). My husband said they removed all the crappy code that was in Vista so it'll work better now. I guess the better stuff is stuff I can't see.<br /><br />I went to the gym at 3pm today and did 30 minutes StairMaster and an hour of lower body strength training. Did I mention how much I hate lunges and squats? <br /><br />The most exciting, yet disappointing, thing that happened this weekend is I found House Foods Tofu Shirataki noodles at my local Fred Meyers store, in the nutritional section. I was so excited because I've wanted to try these forever. Geez, I just re-read this paragraph...I get excited over tofu noodles?? I think I need to get a life. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVI35jcvIBdlb1O8iufy-eCGeTzCcWLS_oEtYYoHBU7cgckFkWXVeZr73ktvcmVpOsQ6PrnVscF_0_yghIdprAVXO5Gw6jTnx39rt3wW-pirnHgebS_U368dhV8yY5urglxQz2qrnksGq/s1600-h/shirataki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzVI35jcvIBdlb1O8iufy-eCGeTzCcWLS_oEtYYoHBU7cgckFkWXVeZr73ktvcmVpOsQ6PrnVscF_0_yghIdprAVXO5Gw6jTnx39rt3wW-pirnHgebS_U368dhV8yY5urglxQz2qrnksGq/s320/shirataki.jpg" /></a></div><br />Hungry Girl is always talking about how wonderful they are and they're super low calorie, low carb, and low fat. I'm one of those strange people that loves tuna casserole (my husband hates it, even made with real noodles). I made HG's Rockin' tuna noodle casserole with the Shirataki noodles. GROSS! Actually, super gross.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GAAa_veVsm2_CEtQ-OOkg0reC0BTReP0GkqzYcftT7QS5l4ersra3eu9U2KFjEWxkWPQq47Az2pyxmOnakC6aY3CsEa0MuZk8PY_60hBq0Kep2-djTkHg-ofbcApyUFXNMNDbMCfTGP9/s1600-h/tuna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GAAa_veVsm2_CEtQ-OOkg0reC0BTReP0GkqzYcftT7QS5l4ersra3eu9U2KFjEWxkWPQq47Az2pyxmOnakC6aY3CsEa0MuZk8PY_60hBq0Kep2-djTkHg-ofbcApyUFXNMNDbMCfTGP9/s320/tuna.jpg" /></a></div><br />It's not that the noodles taste bad, it's the totally weird, rubbery texture of the noodles. It tastes like tuna casserole, but it doesn't "feel" like tuna casserole.<br /><br />You get a huge serving for only 3 Points, but I don't know if I can ever get over the texture of the tofu noodles. It's just kind of icky.<br /><br />Almost forgot, because of the headache I didn't make it to Weight Watchers on Saturday, but I weighed on my very accurate scales at home - 174.6. Up  1.6 pounds. It is what it is.<br /><br />That's it, my totally boring weekend.

The lost weekend

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for your incredibly supportive and sweet comments on Thursday's post. I was overwhelmed by ...

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