Week 13 & 14: Feeling better in the skin that I'm in

So Independence Day (aka July 4th) completely threw me off and it’s like I went into a blogging black hole. It felt like Saturday. It was not.

This means this post covers week 13 and 14. I’m starting to feel more like myself. I’m not 100% there but I feel sleeker and healthier.

I think I may have lost 1/2 a pound but maybe not. I’m still hovering at the same weight this past 3-4 weeks. I’m not exercising everyday - maybe that’s why. 3 months in and I still haven’t found my rhythm. I think I just have to start and make myself do it for 30 days until the habit is set.

The not drinking part

I feel great not drinking. It’s fantastic. And my friends are awesome and don’t care if I drink or not. I’ll still go out and dance and have a great time, there’s just no booze in me.

A friend of a friend asked me to come out on Saturday night for another friend’s birthday. I was early, got myself a tonic and waited for him. He kinda shook his head at my instance of no alcohol.

Later when we were on a rooftop overlooking all of New York, he grabbed me a seltzer and a drink for us to share. He was disappointed and claimed it wasn’t fair. He’d get drunk and look stupid and I’d be sober. I shrugged. I’m ok with that but he obviously wasn’t.

I said good night well before the party was over (I still witnessed a bar top dancing serenade, flaming sparklers, unlimited bottle service and met a lovely midget doorman in a top hat) and took the excruciating 90 minute ride home on the NYC subway after midnight. He offered to drive me but 9 drinks in? I’m not getting into any car with someone who’s spent the night drinking whiskeys (or anything else).

I realize that I wasn’t as straight forward off the bat as I should have been. I said - oh I’m training tomorrow so I can’t and was all bashful like ‘I would if I could kinda thing.’ I should have said ‘I stopped drinking 3 months ago so I could get healthy again so I’m not drinking now but thank you for the offer.’

As long as I’m clear with my intentions, that’s all I can do really. Its just how sone people are but the good ones aren’t. I guess this is an easy way to see who I should hang out with.