Sheep Guarding Llama

Medifast Status: Day 9, Down ~9.5 lbs

Today dad is traveling down from New York to Texas to come see Luciana and Liesl.  He left first thing this morning and should be arriving at DFW just after lunch.

I went in to the office this morning and worked through lunch so that I would be able to go get dad from the airport.  It wasn’t a really busy day so it will be good for coordinating the trips to and from DFW.

I checked the online flight status and dad was actually scheduled to arrive half an hour early so I left the office around a quarter to two and headed out to the airport.  During the drive from Irving to DFW it went from a light sprinkle to a heavy downpour.  No fun.  Driving was not good at all, very low visibility and a lot of hydroplaning.  It took forever to get to the airport.

I sat outside for a while looking for dad.  Eventually I decided to go in and see what was going on as I was getting no information on my iPhone.  I parked and ran in through the pouring rain.

The boards at DFW listed dad’s flight as still being on time even though it was already very late.  I called Dominica and she tried to look up online what was happening but there was no information.  I found someone who worked for Delta and they informed me that the flight had just been rerouted to Austin (without explanation as to why all published information about the flight was incorrect) and that he was not expected to arrive back in the DFW until around eight thirty tonight!

So I went back to the office and eventually dad was able to call me from Austin to fill me in on the current flight status.  They really have no idea when they might get to Dallas.

I worked at the office following Delta’s online status update hoping that the information was somewhat correct this time.  The flight seemed to be coming into Dallas near the end of the day so I stayed late to see what would happen.  It seemed a bit more efficient than heading home just to turn around and head back out again.

It was around six thirty, I believe, when dad was finally on the ground.  I was able to zip right in, pick him up and head back to the house to get the girls.  We decided to go out and do pasta night at La Cima tonight since we were all starving and this is the best night to go up to enjoy the club.  Watson was already up there before we even left the airport.

Tonight was lobster cream and the second week of the new pasta night special feature entry which is really nice.  Everyone thought that the lobster cream was excellent.  It was a beautiful night too.  After the rain there were some amazing rainbows out over the city of Dallas.

I couldn’t enjoy pasta night, of course, which sucked.  I love my Wednesday night pasta.  Instead I had grilled salmon on a salad which was really excellent.  Chris really knows how to do fish the way that I like it.

We hung out for a while and just enjoyed being at the club.  It was, as Wednesdays often are, very slow.  We had the lounge to ourselves and both girls were perfectly behaved.  It was really easy bringing them out for the evening.

After dinner we were off home for the evening.  We all pretty much went straight to bed.  Dad had a really long day.

 

Medifast Status: Day 8, Down ~9.5 lbs

I had my first Medifast check in today.  That took about an hour.  My ketone test said that I was losing too quickly and am risk of starving so I need to add a little bit back in to my diet to make sure that I remain burning fat rather than conserving calories.  My official weigh in there, which is a few pounds lighter than my weigh in at home and on a much better scale and with all of my clothes on, put my first week of weight loss at ten and a half pounds or one and a half pounds per day!  Pretty good results.  Now to keep it up.

Today I am starting golf lessons through La Cima.  Believe it or not, it has been twenty one years since I last took golf lessons.  When I was fourteen (I think that that is the right age) my parents got me golf lessons that summer (this would likely have been the summer of 1990) at the country club in Batavia.  That is when I learned to play golf and I used that learning experience for the rest of my golfing career.

When Dominica and I found out that I could get lessons through La Cima we decided that it was probably time for me to take lessons again.  I haven’t had a chance to play golf in nearly six years (maybe more, I can’t really remember) and I would really like to start leveraging our La Cima membership more and take advantage of the golf that we are already paying for.

I was in the office during the day and came home for lunch.  After work at five thirty I was off to the Grapevine Municipal Golf Course for my golf lesson from six until seven in the evening.  It was my first time heading up there so it took some work for me to find the course but I got there only a few minutes late despite some awful traffic.

The first class went really well.  It was fun and I learned a ton.  I improved significantly just in that one lesson.  I couldn’t believe how much better I was after just the smallest amount of instruction.  This is going to be very good for me.  I can’t wait to come back next week.

On the way home I hit Waffle House and picked up dinner for the girls.  Nothing that I can eat there.  Very sad.

Medifast Status: Day 7, Down ~9lbs

I got up early this morning and worked at the house for a little while.  I am back to work as of Thursday afternoon so I went into the office today as well.  It was on the late side that I got in because I spent the morning helping out at the house.

I got in to the office just in time to pick up some of the guys and go over to La Cima for lunch.  It was a late lunch and the club was nearly empty by the time that we got there.  I had a blackened fish salad today.  Eating at the club is one of the easiest places while on the Medifast diet since they will just make whatever I need.

So far the diet is going okay but it is tough.  Eating so little and having so much of it be so boring and bland is really hard.  I’m losing the desire to eat altogether, which is not good.

After work, the family went out shopping in Plano at Academy.  I needed to pick up some sneakers as I have none currently, golf shoes, glove, etc.  Not a lot of stuff but a few necessity.  Dominica and I both ended up getting Sketchers Tone Up shoes to help us to get additional exercise when walking.  We will see how well they work.

Medifast Status: Day 6, Down ~8lbs

We had originally been scheduled to attend the Mother’s Day brunch at La Cima today but between my new diet and the incredible effort that it would take to take Luciana to the club we decided against it and instead did our Mother’s Day shopping yesterday and today are just taking it easy hanging out as a family at home.

It was a very relaxing day for us as we just spent the day catching up on cleaning and work at home.  There is a lot to do with the baby having arrived and dad coming in a few days.

I do not have all that much worked scheduled for today.  It is a beautiful day here in Texas.  The sun is out but it is not too warm.  I worked from my office for an hour or two this morning until Dominica and the girls were up and ready to head out of the house.

Dominica already sort of got a mother’s day present last week while she was in the hospital – I got her the limited edition mother’s day bracelet from Very Bradley.  But that was also a “new mother” present.  So today, since it is really hard for me to pick out bags for her, I took her and the girls shopping at the Vintage House in downtown Carrollton so that Dominica could pick out her own new summer bag.

We had a nice time.  Liesl really liked going bag shopping with mommy and thought that the store was a lot of fun.

After we were done shopping we decided to take a little drive since the weather was so nice and the girls were falling asleep in the car.  Dominica has not gotten to see Brookhaven yet and didn’t know exactly where it was so we started by driving down there so that she could see it and the area around it.

From Brookhaven we drove out to Richardson, Texas to which neither of us had been before and found Canyon Creek Country Club and checked out the area around there.  There was a wedding underway there and while we could still go in there we decided against it since we didn’t know our way around the facility.  Canyon Creek is pretty close to home for us and has a driving range so I am considering using that as my location for hitting a few rounds of balls.  I’m hoping to be able to get out and use the driving range a bit over the next several weeks as I am going to be taking golf lessons through La Cima starting on Tuesday of this week.

We got back in the middle of the afternoon and the girls slept for a while.  I got back to work and was as productive as possible for the afternoon.

This evening Dominica and I kicked off watching the fifth season of Dr. Who from Netflix.  This is the third doctor since the new series started.  The last one was so good that this one has a lot to live up to.  He is crippled out of the gate because so many people are unhappy that the last doctor left the show so they aren’t going to be happy no matter how good the actor ends up being.