Not sure if I've mentioned it before but we decided to remodel our bathroom. We have a small house which only has one bathroom plus a toilet in the basement. Living without a bathroom entails plenty of trips to the YMCA to shower and walking my children to the basement for a potty several times a day. This is my first time living through a remodel like this for my own house and its so much worse than I thought it would be. I feel completely trapped! I have already gained at least 5lbs possibly more.
We are only on Day 4 of construction but my feelings of being trapped started two weeks ago. I have had one sick child for the last 14 days. I suppose I should be thankful that only half the sick days were post bathroom removal. The pediatrician actually laughed out loud when I interrupted his instructions on sponge bathing my daughter due to her 105 degree fever to say "I have no tub or shower. It was ripped out today." When my kids are sick everything stops (including me getting out to exercise). When you have three kids resting yourself during the day is near impossible, especially when no one is going to school. It is rare for everyone to rest at the same time other than night and even then its a "good" (not typical) night if no one wakes up for something. I'm plain tired. With the bathroom construction just starting, I guess I'm lucky that my brood seems to have good bladders b/c there have not been too many requests for walks to the basement in the middle of the night but I'm waking up tired.
I've missed my WW meetings the last two Wednsdays, first because of Mother's Day at my son's school and then my daughter was sick. After the first week I weighed myself at the gym and was quite pleased with being the same or slightly down and then after a week and a half of no exercise, staying in with a sick child or just to be on call for the contractor, I was definitely up around 5lbs. Whoas me what will it be tomorrow when I go into face the music. I'm just hoping its less than a 5 lb gain.
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