It's almost March! It's almost March!

I get the most excited for Groundhog Day, but knowing I need to slog through my 2nd favorite month is hard, but February has been pretty kind to us up here in the Northeast! I was so confused last week - I kept thinking it was April. Alas, it's not. And the beginning of March is supposed to be like a lion - but just hoping for now more snow days!

The weekend was pretty low key. A lot of it was finishing up my binge-watching of Downton Abbey - now I am obsessed with that time period in England - I bought a bunch of books that came on Monday and more coming on Friday.

I did make to WW on Saturday - since I hadn't weighed in the previous Saturday it showed me down .8. Yep, the good side of the cycle. But still up 2 lbs from 3 weeks ago :(

I still wasn't feeling great over the weekend, so didn't push myself and do ANY exercise! Not even extra steps.

I am trying hard this week to be good, but it can be hard!

But Tuesday afternoon me and my daughter did Day 1 of 21 Day Fix. I finally set up my dad's computer in the basement so we can work out there. And after the 30 minutes, during which I modified heavily, I wanted more exercise so I rode the stationary bike for 20 minutes (5 miles) while my daughter walked on the treadmill (1 mile). She is at ski club today so it will be up to me to do exercise on my own. I tell myself there is NO reason not to do 30 minutes in my own basement!

10,000 Steps

Yesterday was my first day at work with my FitBit. Even though my routine in the morning wasn't normal due to the kids/husband being in bed, thus I arrived at work with less steps than I normally would, I ended up taking 4 walk breaks at work! Around 9,11, 1 and 3 (since I didn't have to run home to kids, I stayed at work for a full day). I think I left with about 7,000 steps. I joked to my manager that I would probably end the day with less than 8,000.

On the way home I had to pick up a new bicycle for my daughter. With today being in the 60s and tomorrow being almost 70, I hope we all can get out for some rides.

Before dinner I took a short 1/2 mile walk on the treadmill to get in some more steps.

After dinner I was helping my daughter set up her fit bit and I noticed I was at 19,990 steps so we walked around her room to see what would happen when I hit 10,000.

I also signed up for Beachbody On Demand. I am no where near ready for 80 Day Obsession, so I am going to try 21 Day Fix. Anything to get my body moving in a different way, even if I heavily modify the routines at first.

This morning I hadn't gotten to re-make the chicken salad my husband ate Sunday night, so I was very tempted to buy today, but I like the streak. So I packed one of my Lean Cuisine pizzas - not great, but better than buying!

And I stepped on the scale this morning - 229.6. But I did it - hadn't stepped on the scale in 10 days. I NEED to do it every day!

3 weeks away is never good

I am really going to try to figure this whole cycle thing this month. Because I can't get an traction with how things are going.

So where were we when I last wrote. End of January. Superbowl 52 was coming up. Even though I really can't care THAT much if Tom Brady won a 6th Super Bowl (last year I cared - we wanted 1 for each finger; we wanted it for him for his mother; 2 years before that we wanted it because it had been 10 years). This year I just didn't care that much. But I was still a bundle of nerves. And that weekend also corresponded to "ovulation weekend" which lately has been way worse foodwise than PM.

I went to Weight Watchers on Saturday February 3rd - I lost 2.6 lbs. I bought flowers because that is what I do over Super Bowl weekend (ie 1/2 way through winter). Saturday we drove up to the area we are renting a house in August and I got to take pictures on the beach with snow. We went and had pizza and the same wonderful pizza place we are over Thanksgiving weekend, but I didn't go crazy and I didn't eat the rest of the day. Sunday I spent cooking for the Superbowl. We weren't going crazy. I made some healthy stuff.....But then I decided to drink a whole entire bottle of white wine during the game. I stayed up late watching This is Us.

Monday I was hungover and tired and dragging. I didn't make wise food choices. That carried into Tuesday.

Saturday I went to WW and was up by 2.2. But I declared in front of the whole meeting that I was challenging myself with how many meetings I could go to. But then I chose not to eat healthy at all that week - Valentine's Day and such. Not a good week.

But this past Saturday I did go. I chose not to weigh in. But I still went. I don't want to keep using the "no weigh in" because that was part of why I gained 30 of the 50 lbs back while still going to WW. Because I gave up caring what the scale said.

And my period arrived yesterday and even with cramps, my mood immediately changes (we won't think about how in 8 weeks I will be on vacation - you do the math :( But at least that means that vacation should correspond with me feeling good)

I wasn't perfect, by any means, this weekend, but I did try. It is a weird week because my kids are on vacation so our schedule is thrown off a bit. I am working most of the weekend, but my morning routine is different, the evening will be different. I haven't menu planned at all because I am not sure what their plans will be.

But through this all, I have still not bought my lunch. Last night my husband ate my lunch but I just made another. Last week I had lunch with a friend and she needed to buy and I was tempted to myself. So at least I've got that going for me.

This week I've got to start incorporating exercise again. I bought a FitBit (even though I have a Garmin) and I am temped to try BeachBody. Vacation is 8 weeks away - I need my clothes to fit better by then. I can do it!