We are in our official third heatwave of the summer. Yep - temperatures over 90 for a minimum of 3 days in a row. Wouldn't be so bad, I guess, if I had an air conditioned house. Unfortunately I do not. I have one window AC in a little bedroom which I sleep/eat/live in for the summer, just waving to the rest of my family in passing while I get something out of the fridge.
Whenever I read articles that ask, is it easier for you to diet in the summer or the winter, I always answer (without thinking too much about it) "Pshaw... how can anything compare to fresh summer fruit and the desire to drink water?" Alas... I got an aha moment last night when I realized that this is not true at all. It has been so hot in my kitchen, that despite my desires (and available ingredients) to cook, I just cannot. I have been eating salads with WW entrees for every lunch and then whatever there is for dinner. Even my new egg discovery I couldn't bare to make this morning (the house thermostat said it was already 85 degrees at 6AM and I'm sure it was hotter than that in the kitchen) - I went to my old standby of Laughing Cow cheese on Wasa crackers - which I really do enjoy, they had just fallen out of favor since I started making my egg sandwiches. I think I will try to make the eggs tonight for dinner if I can stand in the kitchen for more than 3 minutes.
I am not succumbing to take-out and fast food, although not having a satisfying dinner is prompting me to look for "something else" in the evening, in spite of my prominent crowing about how the work I am doing is cutting down on even my thoughts of eating after dinner. However, I get to the kitchen and there is nothing, so that takes care of that.
I swear if I still had my cot in the office (I had brought one in for my first few months after knee surgery so that I could nap at lunch if I had taken even a small dose of a narcotic pain killer after arriving in the office) I would not even go home tonight. I would whip a second WW entree out of the freezer, set up my cot, and call it a night. I am so sad to think that my friends might not be able to visit this year - I said that if we are coming out of, going into, or being in, a heatwave the visit is off because everyone would be too miserable to leave their bedrooms - even with the pool and the lovely shaded deck with the fans on.
Okay so this officially ends any desire to retire to Florida or other points hot.
Stay cool.
Miriam
p.s. I looked ahead to next Friday (which is my horseback riding excursion) - thank heavens... it's predicted to be ONLY in the high 80s!
I can't imagine living without AC here in Texas - but I guess in Mass. there are many who do. What's nice is the temps are in the low 70's (and sometime high 60's) in the evening/night so we sleep w/o AC (and in the early a.m., we turn on the ceiling fans).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, here's to cooler days/nights to you!