Getting Motivated on a Gloomy Friday

I think I just accidentally saved a blank post.  Sorry.  I was trying to add one of my photos to the blog and it would not make it small emough.  I gave up.  Anyway, it’s a rainy Friday afternoon.  I need to motivate myself to go to the fitness center before I head home tonight.  [...]

Juggling

I wonder if there are any other married women out there with this problem.  I have a very busy life and enjoy devoting time outside work to….keeping fit (mostly walking around the neighborhood), church stuff (choir rehersals once a week - love to sing), photography and volunteering at the local Community Darkroom, and my TOPs [...]

Woops, up a little this week

My weekly weigh in report - up 0.4 # - Oh well.  Basically I over ate on the weekend, didn’t track and it showed.  Exercise was good for the week…everyday did at least 40 minutes, including the dreaded stregth training twice.  Weather has been wonderful for walking.  Did 6.5 miles yeasterday at lunch…ended up with [...]

Another pound lost

Down to 197.8  Woopie!  Still trying to follow the Wendie Plan with the WW points.  Keeping track of my food and exercise in an excel file.

Rainy Day Musings

 I was browsing my photos on this rainy Tuesday and stopped at this one from a rain forest in Australia.  I love the green and I’ve always loved to photgraph roots…not sure what the attraction is.  Maybe it’s the evidence of natural life forces and trees holding on to the abundance of earth…oh well…just liked [...]

Latest weigh-in results

OK.  It’s official…I was 199.4 at TOPs weigh-in last night!!!  Onederland at last.

Decided to start posting my weekly progress

As of Sept 4th - 200.5 lbs.  Will use my TOPs monday night weigh in results to post here.  I’m going to Onderland or bust!!

September Musings

This time of year is always a challenge for me.  I am reminded of all of those “back-to-school” days of my youth and the excited and anxious feelings of those first weeks.  It really feels more like a new year than January 1st does.  And yes, there are some major changes afoot for me this [...]