Oh to be just overweight!

I spent hours outside yesterday with my dad working on the landscaping in front of the house.  Most of it was not the glamorous flower and shrub planting stuff that instantly makes it look better.  It was the tilling, raking, picking up rocks and roots, leveling the ground, etc.  Anyway, at the very end I did get a few plants put in and I am SO excited to finally be able to get to that point.  I also started forming a path lined with rocks going from the driveway to the walkout on the side of the house.  Anyway, it’s coming along nicely and I figured I’d brag a little since I hadn’t mentioned the house in a while.  We have grass coming up finally too.  It looks so great to have a big patch of green on a large portion of one side of our yard.  We’re kinda doing the yard in sections so we don’t get overwhelmed and it’s working out so well.  We do it little by little and never feel like we can’t get it done. 

On the weight front things are good.  I’m at 132.8 today.  I was beginning to wonder is 1500 cals was gonna be a problem on my rest days, but now I realize I have to think big picture.  I held steady for a couple days, so I was considering lowering my rest day cals, but then this morning I woke up to a modest loss.  It was a relief to see that I was still progressing.  I also looked at my weekly progress and saw that I was down over a pound from last week even before today’s loss.  So, overall it’s working out very well.  In April, I have lost over 6 pounds which is incredible for me.  Maybe it’s come off easier since I had already lost it once…I don’t know.  Either way, I’m good with it.  I’ll never complain about “fast” weight loss as long as I don’t average more than 2 pounds a week…though at this point I don’t have a ton left to lose unless my body chooses a different weight than what I had in mind.  LOL  Seriously, I want to be safe and healthy about it. 

Well, I’m off to conquer another (rest of the) day.  Hoping to keep on schedule with my running this week since soccer schedules are trying to interfere, dang it!  It’ll be the consistent part of my weekend when the food is different and I’m not at home, at least I can count on my run!