Weigh In Wednesday

Ahhh, another Wednesday another weigh in. I had the best of intentions last week after maintaining. Well sometimes the best laid plans don't work out. I am up. Sniff, sniff. Two Whole Pounds. I am disappointed in myself, but honestly it wasn't a surprise. Like I said yesterday graduation cake is soooooo good. Over the course of the weekend I ate 3 pieces. In my defense all three of my pieces only equaled one piece for Gary, but he doesn't have to tell anyone when he gains a little here or there.
Although I am sad about the gain, I am already getting over it. I realized that having the sisterhood to turn to and help me keep accountability in my eating is a great way not to let one weeks slip ups because one month and then 6 months and then 20 extra pounds. So I haven't lost consistently yet, but the challenge isn't over and at least I am paying more attention to what I eat and working out much more consistently, and all of that together is giving me more self confidence that I can do this.
Sometimes, ok usually, I see the end result and get frustrated by the steps along the way to get there. But this being more challenging that I thought it would be I am seeing that it is the everyday choices that need to be better to make the end result a reality. I am still hanging in there, this week will not completely throw me off my game. I will get back up, brush myself off and try again.
On the plus side though I have been good about exercise the last 2 weeks. I have progressed to the 2nd section on my step aerobic tape and I have been walking a lot more and mowing the lawn, push mowing. I am feeling good and more powerful. And besides I am on vacation next week, so I have two weeks before I will be back here to share a weigh in. Imagine what I can do in two weeks. Look out scale, your going down!
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Ok, confession time. It has been a tough week, and that is an understatement. Well here goes........

1. Graduation open house cake tastes way better than wedding cake, especially when it has blue frosting on it that turns everything it comes in contact with blue. NICE.

2. I am scared of running a 5k. Actually I fear getting to the point where I run 1/2 mile at one time. I am scared because to me that seems huge. I think I am secretly sabotaging myself and letting this fear keep me from training.

3. I cried at work. I am completely frustrated with things at work, but I am afraid to change occupations.

The stress in my life right now is starting to get a little overwhelming, but I am trying to take things one day at a time. One little task at a time. I know that I am just tired right now and getting ready for my vacation next week is a ton of work! WHEW, one breathe at a time right?!?!
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Weigh In Wednesday

I did not want to weigh in this week, I did not want to step on the scale this morning, honestly I did not want to even get out of bed today, but I did. It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected.
I maintained this week. Which is totally awesome because I was thinking I was going to have another gain. I had a pretty tough week. Our niece got married this weekend and with that came lots of food, family, friends, drinks and of course cake. I love wedding cake. I actually did pretty well with it, only eating a half a piece, but they were kinda big pieces. So I don't think it was the food as much as the drinks. I am not much of a drinker usually, but something about my husband's family always puts me in a festive mood and the drinks flow freely. I had a great time and even without a loss it was so worth it.
I don't want to put my life on hold to lose weight, I want to be able to do the things I always do, just maybe make better decisions along the way. Summer is always hard with graduations and weddings and vacations and everything else that comes along, so this challenge is great because it is keeping me more in check.
I have gotten back on track with the work outs. I was trying on dresses to wear to the wedding and nothing fit right, that hit me like a ton of bricks! That was motivation. I had 7 dresses to choose from and nothing to wear. I didn't like the way any of them fit. I picked the best of the worst and went with it, but first I ran down to my basement gym and did 30 minutes of cardio. I have been doing it everyday since. My goal is to get in at least 30 minutes of cardio a day for the next two weeks, then I am on vacation. I want to see what two solid weeks of working really hard will do for my strength and endurance.
Oh and I have a friend that wants to train with me for the 5k I want to run. So even though I didn't lose this week, it was still a good week. I have a lot to work on in the next two weeks and I know that next Wednesday I will be typing a loss.
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