I'm cursed

I've been having one hell of a week and it even started last week with some poison ivy, which I must mention, I was able to get a second time. But at least I'm still on meds for it. On Monday, I went home from work early because I didn't feel right. I'm someone who's totally in tune with my body so I knew something wasn't right. I spent the next 3 hours in a restless sleep, proceeded by spending the rest of the night somewhere between the porcelain throne and the bed....fevers, chills, vomitting....no fun!! So I weighed myself yesterday and I was down a pound and a half....I still didn't have an appetite...I was hoping to see some small change..then last night, until now still, I've had some kind of lower GI bug....it started last night and I spent another night hopping between the bathroom and bedroom. I stepped on the scale last night to see if there was any difference and I accidentally cracked my scale...oh the humiliation....but it wasn't because of my weight and it's still working perfectly fine. It just irks me that there's a crack in it now. I thought....I was feeling better this morning, but nope, not really....my stomach is making all kinds of interesting noises....and I've still been a hostage to the bathroom...and I wanted to see if there was any change on the scale this morning. I was down another pound and a half....so I took my measurements, because it's been a month....no real change, which makes me sad because I've been stepping up the exercise and lost over 10 pounds in the last month. But I tend to alternate between pounds and inches...so I logged my weight and my measurements and changed my ticker. I didn't change my sidebar because I'm afraid by Saturday, I'll be up 3 pounds, no loss....but I too am a scale junkie and couldn't resist weighing myself...so here's to hoping that Saturday will show some kind of loss, but for now I'm celebrating the 3 pounds gone this week which, if they're still gone on Saturday, will mean I've lost over 10% of my body weight!

Goals for this week

Hi - This week, my food goal is going to be to not eat any fast food. My exception to this is going to be stopping at the grocery store. They have a wonderful salad bar and that's usually all that appeals to me. My fitness goal is going to be to go for a walk 3x this week and going to the gym one time this week. I'm really proud of myself for a couple of reasons as well - 1. I went to the GAP outlet with a friend this weekend and was able to buy clothing from there for the first time in nearly 10 years. Granted, they only used to sell to like size 14 and now they go to 20, but i fit and some of the stuff actually fits good. I also went for a 2.25 mile walk yesterday. Usually on Sunday's, my husband and I bum around and do nothing all day which ends up killing my steps for the day. So I got up and got dressed and went for a walk with him and ended up having a pretty good day step wise. I also gardened Saturday and Sunday, since we have rain today, wanted to get everything in since it's been so dry so that everything could take root. I'm feeling pretty good about this weight loss thing and people are starting to comment on my loss and ask for my opinion on things. By no means am I an expert, but I do feel experienced. I'm going to go get my eye brows waxed and get a manicure today since I have a leftover gift certificate and I'll probably just go home and rest tonight. I have laundry that needs to be put away....oh the never ending tasks....Here's to hoping for a good week!

New button

I finally surpassed the 25 pound mark, not by much but it's TOM, or at least it's supposed to be, so hopefully next week will be more of a change. I should be doing measurements once TOM passes and I'm so close to my first 10% goal!!

Shovel!

I'm a shoveler. I eat for speed. This probably stems from childhood. As a kid, we never had sit down meals. I always just ate as quick as possible so I could just go back to what I was doing. My husband is really really quiet to and doesn't usually have too much to say so we usually eat in silence, if we even eat together, so there's nothing to do but eat. So this week, my goal is to take more than 15 minutes to eat. To see if slowing down will allow me to notice that I've filled up. Yesterday was hard. I had to time myself just so I would know how long 15 minutes was. I already went walking once this week and have plans to walk on Thursday and all day Friday. I walked over 11000 steps yesterday. And I have new people checking out my blog which makes me feel less alone! Welcome everyone new!!

So close yet so far...

So I lost another pound this week which is great and disappointing. My diet this week wasn't much different than when I wasn't eating any carbs. And I am so close to my new button. But what I've been noticing is that if I eat really well Monday through Friday, I won't see results until the ned of the weekend. The same is true with exercise. Last week I exercised really early in the week, on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. This week, I've been exercising like a lunatic on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, so I'm hoping that next week's weigh in will be better. But here's to good eating and good exercising!

Not much to share

Not too much going on! It's supposed to be in the 70's today so I brought some workout clothes and sneakers and I'm going to go for a nice two mile walk today. I've been wearing my pedometer daily and still not getting in enough steps. I'm slacking for me America On the Move Challenge. It sure would be nice to have a buddy!! I'll have a weigh in for this weekend and measurements soon to follow. I hope everyone's having a great week!

Wonderful weekend

The weather this weekend was beautiful and for once I had a Saturday off. So I decided to drag my husband out for walk at Kent Falls State Park since we'd never been there...all I have to say is wow, what a beautiful sight and what a difficult walk. Here's some of the highlights!




I'm doing good so far with this week's challenge too! I drank all my water today, only had two small rolls, which is allowed with this week's challenge - but no other carbs which normally would have happened and danced around the house like a fruit while cooking and cleaning the kitchen, accumulating nearly 1000 extra steps though I'm embarrassed to say that yesterday I was uber lazy and only walked 1378 steps and tonight I'm not where near the over 6000 steps I need to complete to finish my walk in time. I'm hoping that I can pick it up!