Becoming a Butterfly

We are back to the real world.  :(  We got back from our trip to North Dakota on Wednesday night (8th) at about 10pm.  That sinking feeling came true….NO LUGGAGE!  At least we were home without luggage instead of out of the state.  We had a wonderful time.  We spread my Dad’s ashes on a hill overlooking a wildlife preserve on my Grandparents farm land.  It was a beautiful experience.  It was my son’s first plane ride and he thought it was AWESOME.  We got to see quite a bit of family and do lots of fun stuff.  The biggest downfall was all the FOOD!!  Constantly shoveling food down our throats.  It was awful and decadent at the same time.  I got back and the scale was 225.6.  That’s a half pound heavier than when I started this weightloss seriously.  Nearly 10 pounds back.  This morning I was 222.2 and 224.2 so I’m hoping a lot of this is swelling - I sure can feel it in my fingers and knees.  I was feeling pretty bad yesterday so I just laid in bed most of the day. 

Today hubby came home from work and said he wanted to go to the gym….otherwise I wouldn’t have gone.  It was a hard one.  My knees were killing me and I kept getting charlie horses in my calves.  I only did treadmill for 15 min and then bike for 45 min.  Not the best workout but better than none.  Burned 890 cals. 

We are supposed to go to eat with MIL for dinner and I’m already hungry.  Terrible terrible.  I’m just going to keep checking blogs and try to get back into my motivation craziness like I was before we left.  I just need to focus on a goal.  Before was to look good for the trip.  My son’s bday is the 22nd and then I’m going down to see my mom for her bday around the 30th.  Then the next goal will be beginning of school year.

This is terrible to admit….but I’m a HUGE Big Brother fan.  I even buy the feeds every year.  I’m very worried that it will keep me sitting in front of the computer when I’d be doing something else.  I’m going to just try to watch at night when I’d be sitting on my ass anyway.  I’m so excited for a new season.  I wait all year for this!!  I was very sad Jessica didn’t make it back.  I loved her! 

Hope you all have some inspiration for me!

PS on our trip we did a crapload of walking and we stayed in the basement so I did lots and lots of stair climbing.  We played outside a lot and ran up and down this huge hill my uncle and aunt live on chasing the kids on their bike.  Got to running so fast it was kinda scary.  Just started picturing myself eating asphalt!  But didn’t happen luckily.

12:45

So, last night I said I thought I was going to be hungry.  Well…I was.  But I put off eating and drank water and then had a snack baggie of grapes.  THATS IT!! 

Haven’t done much today but packing the essentials and bath stuff for our trip.  I’ve not gone to gym yet.  Cant decide if I want to do that or the elliptical here at home and the Wii.  We’ll have lunch and then see.

6pm

Ok.  So I did a lot better than I was expecting to.  Around 3:30 I finally decided maybe I oughta get a workout in.  I stayed home and did the elliptical for an hour.  Then I did a 20+ (can remember just know it was over 20 min) on the Wii Active with lunges and shoulder presses, etc.  Then I did 33 minutes on the Wii Fit.  Which I did the 10 minute hula hoop which darn near killed me since I’d already done a ton of lunges.  I got out the trusty ole yoga mat that hasn’t seen the light of day in probably a year and did some abs with a 5 pound medicine ball and some stretches. 2 hours of exercise (burned 2500 cals)! YAY ME!

I weighed again on the Wii Fit.  Wasn’t expecting anything, maybe a gain since today is day 2 of TOM.  DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!   Current weight is 216.5 for a loss of 2.4 lbs!  YAY!  This is the lowest I’ve been in over 4 years.  218.5 is the lowest I’d gotten previously in the last few months.  I’m so glad about this and I hope it stays and that once TOM is over who knows what it’ll be.  Unfortunately I probably wont have access to a scale on vacation and hopefully wont come back 10 lbs heavier.  That would suck:(

Haven’t eaten dinner yet…not sure what it will be.  Maybe lean cuisine or something along those lines. 

Happy losing to you all!