3rdNovember
House and Plan Progress
Alright, welcome to November in my life!
The builders have gotten the basement walls up and this week they’re waterproofing them and then backfilling around them, so we’ll have such exciting progress! Yay! I know it doesn’t sound like anything huge, but it’s been so amazing to watch it all happen. We’ve got the papers in to get electric hooked up next week, too! I mean it makes my heart soar to see the progress and know that we’ll be back in our own house in a couple months. I’m debating planting some bulbs so we have flowers come up next spring, but I’m not sure how disturbed some of the ground will get right around the house. I may put them out by them end of the driveway or something. I enjoy gardening and I know it will feel more like home to me once flowers are growing there in the spring.
On the plan part of my life, all is going…well, according to plan! LOL I am looking forward to reaching my weight goal of 135 this month and see what happens after that. I have decided on my goal maintenance weight range, based in large part on having a good body fat percentage. I’ve exceeded all the goals I made for myself at the very outset of this journey. At first, I had a goal weight of 150, a goal size of 12, and to reduce body fat. All goals met!! I revised the weight goal many months ago, but had no idea what to reset the goal size to, since I wasn’t sure how my body would change with the continued loss, ya know? Well, I’m pretty much in 8’s in misses and 9’s in juniors now, which is beyond my dreams. I’m thinking if I can get more of this tummy fat gone, I could possibly get into 6’s by the end of it all. I KNOW I’ve never worn that size as an adult and I’m pretty sure I never wore it as a teen either (at least not mid-late teens). I have absolutely no desire to go any lower that that. In fact, if I stay in 8’s I’ll still be completely fine and content. I am still so shocked they fit! It’s what size my skinny, eats-like-a-bird MIL wears.
Anyway, once again I was recently able to gain some perspective and really prayed that God would allow me to enjoy where I’m at. He has so graciously granted me that and it has made a tremendous difference in my mood toward finishing this weight loss, and everything else, for that matter. I am looking forward to posting being at goal soon, so I can share the joy with you all. Here’s to November being a fantastic month for us all!
brseay says 16th November @ 22:11
What a great feeling to know that you have met all of your initial goals. And it sounds like you have a healthy idea of where you want to be.
As far as the bulb planting, based on the bulldozers that raced around our new yard this weekend I’d say wait. Even after the house is built they will be adding more around the house, smoothing it out and moving it around. If the bulbs survive they’d probably have to push through way too much dirt to poke their heads through. We have been in our new house for a couple of weeks and since we missed planting we’re going to spend the winter designing our landscaping plan so it’s exactly how we want it.
Have fun w/the house! It’s so exciting to see your ideas coming together.