Realizing Reality

I guess it would be really wrong of me to complain about how slowwwwww work was today.  It was nice to get to see the sun on the way home (as opposed to the 3 am moon) but the work load was so much lower than what I’ve gotten used to that it really seemed like a long day.  I’m taking tomorrow off to recover!

Actually, I’m taking the day off because my new furniture is supposed to be delivered tomorrow.  I really hope it fits.  My living room is pretty large (16′ X 20′) but it also has 6 doors and a fireplace!  Even when we declare one set of doors a “window”, it is still a little difficult to arrange the furniture in a way that makes sense and leaves room to walk.

Today’s activity:

45 minutes - moving furniture

Current Weight:  261.0 lbs

Today’s delta:  -0.5 lbs

Total delta:  -3.5 lbs

Mini-Goal 1, 259 lbs (Just Because)

Finished big project at work (I think, keeping fingers crossed).  And look at that — I have a new recorded high to start from (again!).  I say recorded because I am pretty sure I got up to at least 269 at one time but I haven’t found where I wrote that down anywhere.  The new recorded high was 264.5 on 5 Oct.

Today’s activity:

15 minutes - Biking with Dog

15 minutes - Biking

30 minutes - Pilates (my butt hurts!)

Current Weight:  261.5 lbs

Today’s delta (since 5 Oct):  -3.0 lbs

Total delta:  -3.0 lbs

Mini-Goal 1, 259 lbs (Just Because)

Ah, the joys of working 60+ hours a week for months on end.  With any luck at all, we’ll be done in two weeks!

Big project at work - seems like all of my time for the past month has been spent at work or sleeping.  Food provided at work but NOT healthy food!  I’ve got to get more exercise in…

It’s certainly not less!  : )

All right, enough already.  I live in Texas for crying out loud, not frickin’ Seattle (not that there’s anything wrong with Seattle, lovely to visit would not want to live there).  We have had not one bit of sun here for almost two whole weeks!  I’m not complaining about the rain but I am so sick of the gray gloomy days.  Let’s see the sun for a minute this spring (we’ll see plenty of it this summer!).

This is my goal picture (and that’s actually my skinny butt in the picture - funny, I didn’t think it was skinny at the time!)

I’ve had two pathetic days in a row and it’s time to get over it, gray skies or not.  I like my job (and am really glad to have it) but the bureaucratic BS makes it SO BORING!!!  And BORING is the absolute death of my resolve to stick with healthy habits.  That’s why I almost always do way better on weekends than I do during the week.

I am enjoying the W8 Challenge - it at least makes me think about what I am doing because I absolutely hate to lose (competitions that is - if I could lose a pound or two, woohoo!!).

Me and Dog, out for a ride.  Now that is a not-skinny-butt

Current Weight:  250.5 lbs

Today’s delta (since last report):  1.0 lbs

Total delta:  -8.5 lbs

Mini-Goal 1, 249 lbs (Just Because), Achieved 11 Jan 2009!

Mini-Goal 2, 248 lbs (No Longer Morbidly Obese), Achieved 9 Feb 2009!

Mini-Goal 3, 243 lbs (5 lbs)