Was a troll all weekend, hiding under my bridge. Saturday I was still sore and exhausted from Thursday's workout. Sunday I was just still anxious and stressed about the future, paychecks, and being a spinster old maid.
Spent the whole weekend at home cleaning, cooking and organizing. Kind of a waste of a weekend considering this is the third one in a row but my car is washed, laundry is done, there's no dishes in the sink, my meals are prepped, my bed is clean, and I've had sleep.
Meal preps for the week were:
Will hit Trader Joes tonight to pick up some brocolli chicken kale salads and space those out so they can be in the freezer for the week after Thanksgiving. Going to try to find a camping trip for that weekend so I am not at home.
Back up to 240.2. Low day last week was Wednesday at 237.1. I feel like I'm throwing dice at the craps table every time I weigh myself. C'mon baby, momma needs a new pair of shoes!
Progress as of today: 70.9 lbs lost so far, only 57.1 lbs to go!
Met a guy on Tinder today that claims to have modeled for playgirl in 2011. Wants my number so he can send me pics. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Went to bootcamp last night. There were two birthdays... 39 and 52... so we got to do alternating sets of 39 and 52 pushups. Oh god. Everything hurts and I'm dying.
Progress as of today: 70.9 lbs lost so far, only 57.1 lbs to go!
You know you are a little too into your camping gear when you are willing to trade a guy on okcupid a dozen superfood brownies to make you a spool for paracord to go on your carabiner.
And because you just turned 40... it counts as a date.
Progress as of today: 70.9 lbs lost so far, only 57.1 lbs to go!
Dropped 3 lbs and broke my plateau!
This is due to the power of meal prep and food logging. Also no soda for several days.
Had to put Noom on hold, I don't have space for the app on my phone and there's no web version.
Progress as of today: 70.9 lbs lost so far, only 57.1 lbs to go!
sticking to any goal is possible if you plan for it and act on those plans! Congrats to you!!!!! Well deserved!
Was super excited to step on the scale this morning and see 240.2 come up. Came here to record my weightloss, but found I am right back exactly at my plateau. Thought I had lost a pound.
Ah well. Back at it. Back to the drawing board.
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
Got into a huge fight with my mom this morning. They went shopping yesterday and brought home sourdough bread, mini pizzas, and other bread products. They are also not supposed to eat these... and they don't just eat them, they gorge on them... like a loaf a day. They are supposed to hide them or keep them in their rooms but they don't. I put the frozen pizzas on my mom's bed and asked her to hide them better and offered to make her breakfast, and she flew into a black rage and cursed and said mean foul things. I said I'd like to keep my hands, feet and eyes... if I was an alcoholic you wouldn't keep vodka out. She said I had to purge the house of everything she can't control herself with... so I have to clear out string cheese sticks, protein bars, dark chocolate, etc. And don't make her breakfast. She hates me. Ok. I will do that then. Even if those things are part of my diet program and meal plan prescribed by docs. Ok. Already had breakfast on so I fed her anyway. She sure enjoyed her breakfast of no-added nitrite apple sausage, organic eggs, wilted power greens, and sweet blueberry overnight oats. I know what I am getting her for Christmas. A tshirt that says "I'm sorry for the things I said when I was hungry."
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Augh the stress of not packing my own food is going to show in my pocket book and my waistline... 2,852 calories so far and I'm still hungry.
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
4:20am and I can't sleep a wink. And even if I eat I am hungry again. I am just going to stay up today and try to hack it because I need to reset my body clock now. Ugh. Should have taken a sleep aid... thought I would be able to sleep on my own because I was so tired... but no luck.
And I am dying for toast.
About 45 days through the 60 day challenge. I am doing my best every day. Some days I have more in me than others.
UDG and I are remotely doing gym buddy today... the plan is to go to our respective gyms and workout at 12 pm in solidarity.
I tore apart my parents kitchen... pulled out everything in the lower cabinets. There was no room to put dishes. Discovered the reason was that there were hundreds of aluminum pie plates from decades of frozen pies. Recycling! I will probably get myself disowned but all the cookware is in the dining room and nobody can sit down. Hope I can pull it back together by Thursday. I leave for the river on Friday!
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10:20am - paradox that is adhd... I got up at 6, made breakfast and took my adhd meds but no coffee and the amphetamines knocked me out like a prize fighter down for the count. Oi.
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
I struggle sometimes with sleep too.
My replacement Fitbit Charge 2 has arrived! Life can resume again. I have been floundering without it!
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
If I was going to buy a new one I might be tempted by a Garmin, but Fitbit is supposed to be better for people who want to be social with their fitness motivation. Like we could all add each other on Fitbit and there would be a leaderboard and ability to cheer each other on.
Except HoP is going to be a cop and lives in NY so she'll always be at the top of the leaderboard
Was 2 inches taller and 4lbs lighter at the doctors office today! Fingers crossed for good bloodwork too off the 60 day challenge!
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
Sunday night and I am getting ready for a second round interview tomorrow. I had lovely references from past coworkers and managers. Hopefully I will kick ass and take names.
Trying to prepare for the interview, but all I can think about is emergency preparations. The 8.2 earthquake that hit Mexico usually travels north to us afterwards on that fault line... Also, Irma is about to take out my mom's condo. She's here with me so she's ok, but she left the family photos in the living room in front of the window... and they are about to be under 6 ft of water. She does not have insurance and the cleanup and repairs may be more than she can pull off. Very anxious.
Still chatting with UDG. A little conflicted because I like him a lot, but worry that if we take it to the next level, it'll give him a heart attack... And that's not sexy. He had a hard time just getting into his car the other night. It was a full on sweaty workout to get into the car seat and the seatbelt fastened. I want someone who will be around for the next 20 years and the way he's going... more than a couple of months would be a gift. Still I feel better whenever I talk to him and that is a quality I can't pass on.
I am still on the online dating sites... But not pulling in any winners. Did get some haterade for posting a current photo of myself rock climbing at REI ladies night. "What do you weigh? You must not go hiking very often judging by how fat you are!" I should have told him to go back to diddling himself in his mom's basement but I blocked him first and can't undo it to send a nastygram back.
Need to get it together and start hitting the gym every day. Read an article on http://fitwithvicki.com/ that suggested if you are over 200 lbs, you need to work on diet and small improvements first and don't worry about exercising every day. It sure feels like that's all I can manage.
Progress as of today: 67.8 lbs lost so far, only 60.2 lbs to go!
I am glad to hear that the 1st round went well – good luck today!
I def do NOT think you should take if too far with this guy. Sounds to me you need somebody a little more active, Happy!
I’m glad you were proud of yourself and don’t take the hater’s comments to heart. Anyone that can send hate and nasty comments on someone’s body obviously has a lot of self-esteem issues of their own going on!
Yes – in order to lose weight it’s more about diet and less about the exercise. You don’t wanna diet too strict, but you do need a calorie deficit which is easier to achieve thru diet than exercise. I know from experience and agree with all the literature!
Take care and stay Happy, HAPPY!
Looks like you're in the game and that's the main thing. Keep up the good work!
Good luck with the interviewing!
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Boy do I miss Trader Joes up here....there aren't any for 4 hours from here...they are all downstate. I have a jar of pesto...but neve know what to do with it....I need to check out some uses for that...I keep pushing it around the pantry....LOL
Makes a great hot pasta or cold pasta salad, frozen veggie dress-up sauce, omlette topping, etc.
bearcountrygg on 11/13/2017:
Ok...Thanks for the ideas....sounds easy.
horn_of_plenty on 11/13/2017:
honestly, it does NOT sound like a waste of a weekend. It sounds relaxing and productive. You just didn't go camping, but you did get a lot done, at home! I think that's great.
Yay! A justification for not going out and having fun and trying to meet some dude.
Donkey on 11/13/2017:
Personally, I think you accomplished a lot. :-)
Really? I feel like I got nothing done... But then today my boss said to me that I can bill all the hours I want this week... So yay! I'm 1 Trader Joe's run away from ready! I can knock that out tonight.