Well, I’ve strayed. Instead of reaching goal in May as I should’ve easily done, I’ve maintained and even bounced up and down several pounds. Not quite what I was shooting for, but that’s my reality. I’m happy to say, as always, I’m not quitting. I was a little discouraged, but then figured that will get me nowhere fast. This coming week will be back to “normal”. I’m coming off a junky week after the flu and TOM. It threw off my exercise and eating, but then I ran with it and ate junk for several days after my tummy began to recover. Then I was snacking on treats I made for my kids’ classes at school…. it was a bad domino effect. Anyway, May hasn’t been as successful as planned. Thankfully, I’m good at bouncing back….I’ve had LOTS of practice!! LOL
Well, the frustration isn’t because the weight loss is going slowly as much as it is with myself for the choices I’ve made to make it go more slowly. I overate at supper tonight…not like I felt over-full afterward, but since I still feel the fullness now, 2.5 hours later means I ate too much. I have been either doing that or eating slightly off plan MOST days the last couple weeks and I have barely lost any weight. My exercise suffered the first week of the month due to some unforeseen travel to finish moving out of our old house earlier than expected. Then, my scale was broken, as previously mentioned, which threw me off my groove. I’ve just had several set backs this month and I’m not pleased with how I’ve handled things. I’m more tired, crabby, and discouraged than I recall feeling in a while. I guess the change in schedule now with the kids starting school didn’t help either. I am still trying to get all this figured out but too much hit me at once and I cracked a bit. Now, I’m trying to take one thing at a time and make more reasonable goals for myself. It also helps that we are finally gonna be able to go a couple months without a trip out of town to tempt me with eating out more than normal. I want to end this month well, so I am planning to reign myself in a bit the next few days and jump start things again. Pray for me!!!
Like most days for me, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that I did find a couple pounds at my parent’s house (which really isn’t that bad of news since I know I ate a little off-plan a few times and can easily put that behind me). I did exercise everyday and mostly ate reasonably, so no major regrets. Each time I go, I get a little more insight into how to handle it better the next time.
The good news is my doctor says I’m actually 5′3″ (I don’t know why I thought I was 5′2″) which means I only need to drop to 169 to be overweight instead of obese!! The major short term goal of this journey is in sight, people! Can someone say WOO HOO!!??! I am so happy to know that in the next couple months I will be making progress in new territory. I haven’t been below 174 for several years (10 years actually, except for one freakishly low weigh-in while on South Beach 4 years ago).
Anyway, I’m pumped and so ready to get on with this. I got my new workout dvd’s in the mail today and tried one out tonight. It was great! Over an hour long, too, so I got plenty of calories burned! Yes!
