A New Challenge

Tomorrow begins a new weightloss challenge with my friends at work. We are calling it BL2...yes I know we could have been slightly more creative but Hey! it works.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to going at it again because I'm getting very close to territory I haven't seen in YEARS! It will be so cool to break through this particular wall.

Today I was able to squeeze a little bike ride in and amongst my weekend chores.....AND IT FELT SOOOOOOO GREAT! For those who know what schedule has been like over the past year or so I am extremely excited to report.....I HAVE QUIT MY 2ND JOB!!!!! Well, I guess it would be more accurate to say that I have given notice but I already feel more free. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I'm fairly certain it's not a train. LOL I'm not sure what I will do getting home every day by 3:30.....but I sure look forward to figuring it out.

Oh and the pool is being opened tomorrow. YIPPY!!!!! It was truly incredible, we took the winter cover off and the water is perfectly crystal clear. If you knew what opening the pool has been like the last couple years you will have some sense of how excited I am about this turn of events. I mean the last couple years I have come to a whole new understanding of the term "muck". Most people would attribute that word with horse stalls rather than a swimming pool but I can honestly say there was probably very little difference in the appearance and stench I associate with the word and someone mucking horse stalls. I take that back, I think the horse stalls would look and smell better than the decaying leaves we have had to sift out of the pool. Thankfully those experiences can now be just another funny things we can look back on and laugh.

Well, I'm off to finish getting ready for the week and firing up the grill!

Week 14

It's been a couple weeks since I've posted anything here but it's not that I've totally fallen off the wagon. :-) It's just been a crazy couple weeks. Last weekend was a big Spring Cleaning weekend and by the time I got done at the end of the day I simply had no energy left....not even for something as simple as typing. Yep, I was tired~!!!!

Last week I did have a 3 lbs loss and I was very excited! That's a total of 27.8 lbs so far.

This weekend has been restrained to a more manageable pace for which I'm very thankful. Yesterday morning Lori and I had breakfast with my sister-in-law Sue and my niece and nephew, Hillary and Sammy, before heading to Seth & Laura's house (nephew & fiance) for a little painting party. Aside from trying to get the house ready for her to move in after the wedding, she is trying to get as much done as possible before he sister comes to visit in a couple weeks. We were only able to stay for a few hours but even during that time, I think quite a bit was accomplished. It's an adorable house and they have chosen really wonderful colors for the whole house.

Once home we went to work in the backyard on the pool. Thankfully it wasn't raining so I took a turn dipping leaves off the tarp so we don't have to go fishing for them later. Between all the hours Lori spent dipping leaves last weekend and my couple hours yesterday.....we are almost there. And that's a good thing because we only have a couple more weeks before the pool guy will arrive to open the pool for the season. Yeah!! Yes I know it may seem like the second week of May is a bit early for pool opening but we decided we really wanted it in shape by Memorial Day Weekend just in case we get a nice weekend. Not to mention that it will take some time to get the water's balance right AND get the water heated to the right level.

Then I headed to my chair and sat........yup, just SAT!!!! Sheesh, that was nice! Last week was a really brutal week and a little down time was really in order.

Confession: Did not eat very well last week and I'm a little scared how the scale will reflect those choices. It wasn't all bad. Several lunches I had a deli sandwich (oops! with chips) and I had a couple fast food dinners and then Friday was my team's going away (pizza) party for our contractor Xong. Oh and breakfasts for the week consisted of donuts and milk. OK I stand corrected....IT REALLY WAS ALL BAD!!!!! I mean, since I was in class for 3 days, I didn't even get to walk on breaks and lunches. Yep, it was really all bad!

Boy when you see it all written down like that it makes more sense why I so feel like crap!!!

I was chatting with Lori last night about what a tough week it was and I'm wondering how much of it was related to my eating. The Zone would say you should balance each meal because it balances your hormone levels and in turn protects against huge swings in mood and energy level. And boy did I have some mood and energy swings. Hmm!

Well, I'm back on plan now and tomorrow morning we'll see how much I'll end up paying for last week on the scale.


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Back on track

Feels good to finally be back on track. This is my 3rd day of having my eating back on track and it feels great! I've also started to walk during for 20 minutes during lunch because I'm really wanting to get re-focused and keep moving forward. Thankfully, I've already lost the 0.8 lbs I gained last week and lost another 0.6 lbs. Whew! Very happy to have the scale beginning to drop again. Just have to keep this new momentum rolling! :-)

Week 11

Well, I guess history and being a realist would have warned me that at some point this was bound to happen. I gained 0.8 lbs this week. As I stated before, I've kind of relaxed/lost some of my focus over that past couple weeks. All things considered I think I've gotten off pretty easy. I'm actually feeling excited and quite ready to refocus.

So her I come Week 12....

Only a few more weeks in the BL Contest at work and I really want to hit my goal of 30 lbs by May 3rd.

Wish me luck!!!!

Almost the end of Week 11

So I missed my Week 10 post. It's a little hard to describe the last couple weeks. There are a tone of changes going on at work. The office is getting prepared for a total reorganization and I am one of the people who's position will be changing the most. I 'll be doing new work, on a new team, with a new supervisor in a new branch. Funny thing is I 'm one of the people most excited about the reorganization.

As for my eating and exercise the past couple weeks have been weird. Breakfasts and lunches have remained constant during the week but on the weekends and Friday nights I've made some poor choices. Plus with missing work last Thursday and Friday kind of set me off a bit. I've also been drinking more soda pop. So this morning the scale was not very friendly. It shows my weight up 3 lbs for the week however I did not eat 10,000 more calories than I burned this week so I know that at least some of it is due to retaining water. So today I'm back to concentrating on drinking lots of water and staying away the soda pop.

We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.

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!

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. :-)