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Sunday night and man what a weekend.  It has been a good weekend, busy but good.  It seems like I need a few more days rest before heading back to work in the morning.  I have been go go go all weekend especially yesterday.  Friday we got a late start we headed into town.  We did lots of shopping, took care of some errands and went to eat.  Yesterday I got an earlier start, but I did get up and exercise before starting my day.  My boyfriend and I have the same birthday and it is also our anniversary, its coming up next weekend.  We went and visited with his dad then went into town and met my family for lunch, they took us out to eat (for our b-day/anniversary) and then we all went to my brother’s house, where they had cake and ice cream.  You could definately say it was not a good food day for me, but I was really glad I had exercised first thing.   We were rushing from place to place and finally went to a pub last night to watch one of our friend’s bands play.  We had a great time!  Today I have been trying to catch up on housework (mainly laundry) and reading blogs.  I cooked a bisque for supper tonight and am ready to get back on track tomorrow. 

While my eating has not been the best this weekend, I’m not upset or beating myself up about it.  I had a great weekend with my friends and family and I still journaled everything, even the cake and ice cream.  I drank my water and got in some exercise, though not as much as planned.  Tomorrows a new day and I’m ready.  I’ve already planned what I’m taking for lunch, I will pack extra water and hopefully be able to sneak down to the workout room on last break for some exercise.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend! 

I had such good momentum going.  But I feel it beginning to wane.  I’m still journaling all of my food and trying (key word here) to make healthy food choices.  My exercise is taking a bit of a hit, and I started out the week so good.  Yesterday I worked a 12 hour shift, which is my norm, 6:45am to 7:15pm, anyways around 5 or so I received a call that my boyfriends father was in the ER at another hospital, again.  I had planned to go down to the workout room after my shift and try to get in some kind of a workout so the day wouldn’t be a total waste in the exercise area, but instead went to the ER.  He has lung cancer for the second time and an aortic aneurism along with various other things.  Good news was the aneurism wasn’t leaking but he may have had a small TIA, but he didn’t want to be admitted to the hospital to have the stroke work up done.  Told the doctor he would rather do it as an outpatient.  I don’t know why men can be so stubborn with things that are so serious.  I guess the nurse in me took over and when everyone else went out for a while I stayed behind and talked to him about just how serious it could get and was as blunt as possible.  The doctor kept asking “you sure you don’t want to let us admit you and get all of these tests done now?”  But no, stubborn. 

Anyways, with those events, yesterday was a bust on exercise.  Food was also not the best, I did take my lunch to work and got in plenty of water.  But I picked up a happy meal on the way to the hospital, I wasn’t sure how long we would be there.  I could have done much worse.  But on the bright side, I weighed this morning and I am down 2 pounds!!!Yay!!!  It’s only been 4 days since my last weigh in but I’m thrilled to see the scale moving down again. 

 Today, so far has been kind of weird, I have tons to do and I’m so far behind.  I’m planning to leave shortly and knock out all of my errands and to-dos and hopefully get back in in time this evening to get some treadmill time in.  Hope you all are having a great Friday.

Today has been a pretty good day, despite working 12 hours and commuting and all the rest.  Yesterday’s workout and journaling food seems to be working, at least in the motivation department.  I even managed to sneak down to the weight room on my last break and got in 15 minutes of power incline intervals on the treadmill.  I have been successfully journaling since Saturday- I rarely make it a full week before giving up.  I’m also doing much better on getting in my water, I have only had 2 diet cokes today.  I’m feeling more energy and seemed to handle my stress better at work today.  I know I have to stick with the exercise, as it totally changes my mood for the better.  My muscles have that sore ache that I’m doing something good and I’m loving it.

Tonight I came home from work and jumped in the shower, fixed my bowl of cheerios for dinner and headed to my computer for some buddyslim motivation.  I think not blogging and not reading the blogs was part of my problem when I was in my slump.  I missed my buddyslim buddies.  I get so motivated reading blogs and comments and learning about other’s successes.  My motivation is high right now and I’m going to do everthing I can to keep it up.  I’m looking forward to weighing in next week, wow did I really just say that?

Happy Hump Day

It’s that time again, time to get back to basics.  I have not posted a blog in quite a while.  My life has been…. hectic for sure.  First I had some health issues, I was taking meds for my migraines and started having side effects, which sent me to the ER.  Then once I stopped the meds I had migraines almost constantly.  I went to like 5 doctors appointments and had a CT, which was negative, and now I’m started on new meds, which seem to be helping somewhat.  Then just as all that was getting under control 2 hurricanes hit us and working the while was just overwhelming.  We were lucky as far as the hurricanes go, no real damage just out of power for 7 or 8 days.  However, I lost all of the food in my fridge and my deep freezer, which led to lots of eating out and unhealthy food. 

I noticed that my scale was starting to creep back up a few pounds and I want no part of that, so it is time to buckle down.  I’m starting off slow but with determination.  Last week I started doing some exercises, nothing major just sit-ups, lunges, and arm stuff while watching tv.  Saturday I decided to get really serious and I have begun journaling everything I eat again.  I never seem to stick with journaling for long because I was always so concerned with keeping up with all of the details (fat, calories, sodium, fiber, etc).  This time I’m just going to keep up with what it is I’m putting in my mouth for a few weeks, to decide what my weaknesses are.  I’m still trying to restrict the possible migraine trigger foods (there are tons of them).  We finally went and bought groceries (no coming storms to worry about for the moment, lol) and I’m cooking at home as much as possible and taking my lunch to work.  Fast food is evil, and what’s more I don’t really like it, its just that it is convenient.

All weekend I have been sick with a migraine and sinus issues so I have spent the last few days in bed and on the couch.  But today I was feeling a little better and ‘no time like the present’ I got my butt up and exercised.  I walked 60 minutes on the treadmill and did 15 minutes of weights, abs, and arms.  I’m ready to see that scale get to moving- down that is. 

I have been reading lots of your posts and must say it has been the motivation I was lacking.  Well I must go for now, my timer just went off and supper is ready- chicken enchiladas, yum (they are healthy).  Hope you are all having a great day.