I am lacking in sleep and I gained this week. Needless today I am cranky! I want to eat a half gallon chocolate-peanut butter ice cream and watch Gilmore Girls.
I won't.
I believe I should reward myself for dealing with an exhausting, horrible, depressing day. So I am breaking out my shoes goal shoes, putting on workout pants and not eating ice cream.
8.22.2012
8.15.2012
Update: Week 27
I am pleased with myself today, I made it through the fair and actually lost weight! 8ish pounds which brings me up to 62.8 pounds of weight lost, no one can say that's not awesome, right? I've had a few revelations the last couple of days one of them is, I can't believe I've been doing Weight Watchers for 27 weeks!
27 WEEKS!?!?! That's 189 days, over 6 months, more than half of a year. That's dropping pop and picking up my water bottle one more time again, again and again. That's not eating french fries, minimizing my chocolate/sugar intake, eating fruit and vegetables like I've got scurvy, that's down 6 dress sizes. That's more miles run than I can count, fewer emotional outburst, gaining an ability to reward myself with something besides food. That's saying goodbye to almost an entire wardrobe of clothes, having a collar bone, seeing muscle definition, and not having fat sausage fingers. That's A LOT of changes. And I like them.
My other revelation is exercise, because I have been so busy the last few weeks I have not been jogging. Yesterday I wentjogging walking. It was so difficult to jog after not doing so for weeks, my hope is to never go that long without jogging.
I've been eating a lot of fresh green beans lately (I also canned 26 jars of them today), fresh from the garden. Also Cucumbers, watermelon and cherry tomatoes.
Pie, there is a lot of pie in this house and I love pie. Damn pie.
As a huge Mandy Moore fan the song Candy has always been the perfect tempo (beat, rhythm, or something like that) for jogging.
I have also been craving Zucchini Lasagna. Here is a recipe for Zucchini Lasagna from Skinny Taste. I made my recipe up but this is similar except that I used ground turkey, store bought sauce and cottage cheese instead of ricotta. It was AMAZING!
27 WEEKS!?!?! That's 189 days, over 6 months, more than half of a year. That's dropping pop and picking up my water bottle one more time again, again and again. That's not eating french fries, minimizing my chocolate/sugar intake, eating fruit and vegetables like I've got scurvy, that's down 6 dress sizes. That's more miles run than I can count, fewer emotional outburst, gaining an ability to reward myself with something besides food. That's saying goodbye to almost an entire wardrobe of clothes, having a collar bone, seeing muscle definition, and not having fat sausage fingers. That's A LOT of changes. And I like them.
My other revelation is exercise, because I have been so busy the last few weeks I have not been jogging. Yesterday I went
I've been eating a lot of fresh green beans lately (I also canned 26 jars of them today), fresh from the garden. Also Cucumbers, watermelon and cherry tomatoes.
Pie, there is a lot of pie in this house and I love pie. Damn pie.
As a huge Mandy Moore fan the song Candy has always been the perfect tempo (beat, rhythm, or something like that) for jogging.
I have also been craving Zucchini Lasagna. Here is a recipe for Zucchini Lasagna from Skinny Taste. I made my recipe up but this is similar except that I used ground turkey, store bought sauce and cottage cheese instead of ricotta. It was AMAZING!
8.09.2012
Weeks 25 & 26
Confession time: I gained last week and I have no idea if I lost this week. For last weeks gain I blame no one but myself and my love of "good" food. Chocolate, beer cheese soup and fresh cut french fries, who can resist all that "goodness"? NOT ME! When I weighed in at meeting last week our leader was funny, "I take it you know how this happened?" I sure did know! She was also very supportive and we talked about pushing our limits, sometimes so we need to find out how far we can go before it is too far (apparently all those french fries were too far).
This week I have been volunteering at church and baking scone every morning for the county fair. So I did not make it to meeting last week due to delicious scone baking and I do not trust my scales at home so I am working for a loss on week 27!
Even though I did gain last week and I am pretending that this week does not exist I am considering this a success, because I learned something (or was I reminded of something?).
Diverging off of topic: It's funny how we keep our lives together. For years my health was atrocious, absolutely horrible! And I had my job/career together, I was successful, I was good at my job and for the most part I liked what I did. Oh how things can change in just one short year, I have my health on track but am severely lacking in the job/career department. - I don't absolutely hate my job, I am VERY thankful to have my job and consider my self lucky to have one, I love most of my coworkers and the corporation isn't horrible either. - I know that there is something else out there for me, I need to be patient keep looking and wait for a more fulfilling opportunity, but MY PATIENCE IS WEARING THIN! Life is funny that way I guess, maybe one day I'll have it all together.
Because I have been getting up early to bake I have not been exercising so no favorite exercise song. However I have been listening to a lot of Adele.
Still trying to kick pop and drink water.
Lovin' nectarines and watermelon!
This week I have been volunteering at church and baking scone every morning for the county fair. So I did not make it to meeting last week due to delicious scone baking and I do not trust my scales at home so I am working for a loss on week 27!
Even though I did gain last week and I am pretending that this week does not exist I am considering this a success, because I learned something (or was I reminded of something?).
Diverging off of topic: It's funny how we keep our lives together. For years my health was atrocious, absolutely horrible! And I had my job/career together, I was successful, I was good at my job and for the most part I liked what I did. Oh how things can change in just one short year, I have my health on track but am severely lacking in the job/career department. - I don't absolutely hate my job, I am VERY thankful to have my job and consider my self lucky to have one, I love most of my coworkers and the corporation isn't horrible either. - I know that there is something else out there for me, I need to be patient keep looking and wait for a more fulfilling opportunity, but MY PATIENCE IS WEARING THIN! Life is funny that way I guess, maybe one day I'll have it all together.
Because I have been getting up early to bake I have not been exercising so no favorite exercise song. However I have been listening to a lot of Adele.
Still trying to kick pop and drink water.
Lovin' nectarines and watermelon!
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