Friday, March 26, 2010
Home sick :-(
Ugh! I'm home sick today. Stomach is finally starting to feel better. It's the weirdest thing, it's been 24-hours since I left the dentist office so why does my mouth still taste just like the dentist office?! I've never had this happen before and I don't know if that was the cause of my queasy stomach or not but boy does my mouth sure tastes bad. Whew!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Week 9
Lost 1.6 lbs this week. I would have loved to have the weightloss continue at a pace of 3-6 lbs a week but even I knew that wasn't likely. I'm happy with my 1.6 lbs. I have now lost a total of 24 lbs since January 18th. That's pretty cool!!!
Just had a breakfast sandwich and watching the Sunday morning news programs. Feel my blood pressure rising every time another disingenuous political windbag open their mouth!!!!! And I'm speaking of windbags on both sided of the isle by the way. The best solution? GO FOR A WALK!!!! Get some of those feel good endorphins. :-)
Just had a breakfast sandwich and watching the Sunday morning news programs. Feel my blood pressure rising every time another disingenuous political windbag open their mouth!!!!! And I'm speaking of windbags on both sided of the isle by the way. The best solution? GO FOR A WALK!!!! Get some of those feel good endorphins. :-)
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Finally!!
Well I finally made it back into the 240's.....only by 0.2lbs but I'll take it! The weightloss has definitely slowed down but I've now lost a total of 23.2lbs since January 18th. Unfortunately, I haven't been quite as focused as I was the first 6 weeks....and then there's always my weekly work schedule which has really started to wear on me.
At the beginning of the year I decided I would quit my 2nd job by the end of May but as the date was getting closer I started getting more and more anxious about letting go of the extra income. It hit the point where any time I thought about giving notice, my stomach started to tie up in knots and I felt my heartbeat start to quicken. It's been such a difficult couple years financially that the thought of losing that income started to really scare me. I asked a couple friends to really pray with me for direction so I could make a decision and truly be at peace with it either way. As part of this process I also took another look at what the financial picture would be without the extra income and was surprised to see that I can still continue the journey toward being debt free....albeit a bit slower, it's still a reasonable amount of time. So with as much as I want my life back and knowing I can still accomplish my goal of being debt free I came to a place of prayerfully deciding that unless something happened that would be the equivalent of God knocking me upside the head with a 2x4 indicating I needed to keep the 2nd job.....I'm giving my notice at the beginning of May!!!! Yeah!
So on my morning break I told Lori about my decision and the whole 2x4 scenario. For the first time rather than anxiety I felt something very different.....excitement!!! I was totally excited, even bubbly inside. Lori later told me she walked away thinking that if the tenants of my rental house didn't renew their lease that would equate to my 2x4 upside the head. The really cool thing is that within a couple hours of that conversation I received a text from the property manager advising me that the tenants had just called asking to extend the lease for another year. :-) Thank you Lord for your amazing timing and rich sense of humor. So now it's just a matter of hanging in there for another 10 weeks or so and I'll have my afternoons and evenings free....just in time for Summer. Whew!
Now I just need to regain my focus and really zero in on my goal. I have to stayed focused on continuing to lose weight while improving my health and fitness. Once I'm a little further down the road, we can talk about --- triathlons!
At the beginning of the year I decided I would quit my 2nd job by the end of May but as the date was getting closer I started getting more and more anxious about letting go of the extra income. It hit the point where any time I thought about giving notice, my stomach started to tie up in knots and I felt my heartbeat start to quicken. It's been such a difficult couple years financially that the thought of losing that income started to really scare me. I asked a couple friends to really pray with me for direction so I could make a decision and truly be at peace with it either way. As part of this process I also took another look at what the financial picture would be without the extra income and was surprised to see that I can still continue the journey toward being debt free....albeit a bit slower, it's still a reasonable amount of time. So with as much as I want my life back and knowing I can still accomplish my goal of being debt free I came to a place of prayerfully deciding that unless something happened that would be the equivalent of God knocking me upside the head with a 2x4 indicating I needed to keep the 2nd job.....I'm giving my notice at the beginning of May!!!! Yeah!
So on my morning break I told Lori about my decision and the whole 2x4 scenario. For the first time rather than anxiety I felt something very different.....excitement!!! I was totally excited, even bubbly inside. Lori later told me she walked away thinking that if the tenants of my rental house didn't renew their lease that would equate to my 2x4 upside the head. The really cool thing is that within a couple hours of that conversation I received a text from the property manager advising me that the tenants had just called asking to extend the lease for another year. :-) Thank you Lord for your amazing timing and rich sense of humor. So now it's just a matter of hanging in there for another 10 weeks or so and I'll have my afternoons and evenings free....just in time for Summer. Whew!
Now I just need to regain my focus and really zero in on my goal. I have to stayed focused on continuing to lose weight while improving my health and fitness. Once I'm a little further down the road, we can talk about --- triathlons!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Week 8
I have now been on this new journey toward health for eight weeks now and I've lost a total of 22.4 lbs. I'm extremely pleased with my progress!!!! I was hoping to make it over that next big hurdle into the 240's but I missed it by 0.6 lb. Hopefully I'll get there next week.
The cool thing is that it hasn't even been painful. I feel great and so much stronger even though the only exercise I've been able to consistently work in has been walking. I would love to have the time available to workout more Biggest Loser style but it's great to know it's not necessary to work out like that in order to make progress toward my goal.
Later I'll be taking my measurements and will report back.
The cool thing is that it hasn't even been painful. I feel great and so much stronger even though the only exercise I've been able to consistently work in has been walking. I would love to have the time available to workout more Biggest Loser style but it's great to know it's not necessary to work out like that in order to make progress toward my goal.
Later I'll be taking my measurements and will report back.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Weird week
It's almost the end of the eighth week and it's been a weird one. One day my work schedule didn't allow me to get in my 2nd 15 minute break walk and one day I was home sick with a headache so both of those days I missed my Step Target. I met my calorie target each day but it just didn't feel very satisfying. The fact that the scale has not been friendly certainly helped with the weird factor this week. Then Friday night I went out to eat and did not make a choice that was "on plan". I don't really feel guilty about that. I still made a reasonable calorie deficit for the day and outside Friday it was a perfect week of eating. I guess there just hasn't been anything special about my eating or my exercise to get excited about this week. Tomorrow morning is the official weigh-in and it will be interesting to see what it shows. I am on a very strange every other week schedule for weight loss. One week I lose 3 or 4 pounds and the next week I lose 0.2 pounds or something like that. I have yet to have the scale show a gain on the official weigh-in day but tomorrow could be the exception. We'll just have to see what the morning holds. Tomorrow is measurement day too so it should be interesting.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Week 7
It's the end of Week 7 and I hit a major target. I've now lost a total of 21.8 lbs and it feels great!!!!!
Yesterday was a crazy full day. Headed out pretty early for grocery shopping and had to make several stops to get the whole list and made a quick stop at Subway for lunch. But the real action started when we got home. The first order of business when getting home was getting my workout in plus Lori needed to get her run in so while she was doing her Couch to 5k run I was on the elliptical next to her trying to keep up with her. It was a really good workout. Then we went straight to the kitchen. We fired up every burner, the oven and the crock pot to cook lunches for the coming weeks. After 4+ hours of cooking, cooking, cooking, we have 49 lunches in the freezer. Whew! By the time the kitchen was cleaned up my feet were throbbing so bed, it was 3 Advil and bed for me but it feels so good to have it done.
It was kind of funny because when I woke up this morning I felt just like I used to feel waking up on Sunday morning after a long bike ride. It was like de ja vu. I have a low grade headache at the moment but I'm sure it will subside as the day gets rolling.
Getting ready to fix breakfast and figure out where the walk will be today. It's very overcast today and the weather report has been threatening rain. The rain hasn't arrived yet but I don't think the conditions are favorable to a walk at Pioneer Park so it may be a mall walking day.
Looking forward to a very low-key day, relaxing and getting ready for the week ahead.
Yesterday was a crazy full day. Headed out pretty early for grocery shopping and had to make several stops to get the whole list and made a quick stop at Subway for lunch. But the real action started when we got home. The first order of business when getting home was getting my workout in plus Lori needed to get her run in so while she was doing her Couch to 5k run I was on the elliptical next to her trying to keep up with her. It was a really good workout. Then we went straight to the kitchen. We fired up every burner, the oven and the crock pot to cook lunches for the coming weeks. After 4+ hours of cooking, cooking, cooking, we have 49 lunches in the freezer. Whew! By the time the kitchen was cleaned up my feet were throbbing so bed, it was 3 Advil and bed for me but it feels so good to have it done.
It was kind of funny because when I woke up this morning I felt just like I used to feel waking up on Sunday morning after a long bike ride. It was like de ja vu. I have a low grade headache at the moment but I'm sure it will subside as the day gets rolling.
Getting ready to fix breakfast and figure out where the walk will be today. It's very overcast today and the weather report has been threatening rain. The rain hasn't arrived yet but I don't think the conditions are favorable to a walk at Pioneer Park so it may be a mall walking day.
Looking forward to a very low-key day, relaxing and getting ready for the week ahead.
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