Week 37

.9% gain this week. Not unexpected, not upsetting. Considering the past week, it's not even excessive.

Yesterday did not go as planned. While out running errands with the kids, my brake line suddenly ruptured. I've never had that happen before, but when the brakes suddenly go all the way to the floor and the car barely slows, you know something's wrong. Luckily, this did not happen on the freeway or on a busy street or even in my driveway. No, it happened in one of the few places where I could think, "OK, if I go through this neighborhood, the mechanic is only a mile away." Any of those other options could have included a very nasty accident or at the very least a tow truck. And since the mechanic knows that the car only has to make it through one more winter, they did the minimum safe fix, so the repair was only $225 instead of more than $500.

But it was still a pretty stressful afternoon. We were there for several hours; I had to cancel one class. I couldn't get out to walk because of the rain. When I got home, I skipped the dinner I had planned and ate a lot of I-don't-know-what until I left for the other class. When I got home, I ate some more, soundly breaking my "no eating late at night rule." I didn't ask Jeff to go out for BK (though I thought about it), so that's a small victory, right?

So today is a new day. I know this gain will come back off again. Maybe not by next week, but it will come off. I've got a good, substantial breakfast and lunch planned, and dinner will be the healthy stuff I had planned for yesterday. If it doesn't rain, I'll get a quick walk during break at co-op.