Wow, it's been almost a week!

*Wow, I didn't realize I didn't even finish this....and I thought I wrote a post mid-week as well. Woops. So I'll finish this and then write about the week*

Why do Mondays come so quickly?! I just want time to fly by because in 2 1/2 weeks I finally get a day off! Well, more than that, as we are headed out on a road trip for spring break.

Saturday me and my husband had lots of errands to do. We had originally planned on leaving at 12:30, after lunch, but after we both decided not to exercise on Saturday, I had a smoothie at 10:30 and then left. I was a little nervous because I didn't have any snack food to bring. But I did bring my water bottle.

After a failed trip to the camera store, we drove almost an hour to another place to do errands. I needed to eat lunch first. We went to Moe's Southwest Grill. I had a burrito in a bowl, chips and queso and a water. I skipped the beer when we met up with friends.

We didn't get home until almost 6:30 - I immediately made spaghetti and had 2 servings.

One of my "errands" was to check out the rail trail to see if it was free of snow and it was, so I headed out on Sunday.

I had a flaxseed waffle with PB&J before leaving the house. I then ran 2 miles on the bike trail until I hit my favorite stream spot (this location used to be near where I was able to park so it would be a nice place to visit after my run, but now due to construction I have to park elsewhere). I then ran 1.6 miles and stopped and walked the rest of the way to my car. I wanted to get to an even 55 miles for the year.

I had some chocolate milk before driving home and then had 2 servings of oatmeal made with milk, almonds, blueberries and brown sugar. Lunch was leftover spaghetti and dinner was nothing - I ate junk - I had trail mix and chips and chocolate ice cream. Dinner of champions.

I woke up Monday at 5:30 and did Upper Fix from 21 Day Fix. My arms were on fire and I loved it! I had some chocolate milk after my work out.

Eating was pretty good until the afternoon - I had more trail mix but added in semi-sweet morsels (and then threw the rest out with trash day). Dinner was frozen chicken and the kids had mac and cheese and I ate some of theirs :(

Tuesday - Rode the bike for 30 minutes:
4 minute warm up
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1 minute running out of the seat
1 minute regular pedaling
1 minute fast pedaling
1 minute regular pedaling
[repeat through 24 minutes]
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4 minute cool down

I got some walks in at work but then was eating off the rails in the afternoon (trail mix, Fudgicles/PB snack, random grazing for "dinner"). TOM arrived late in the evening.

Wednesday -
I didn't get up at 5:30 but did squeeze in a Total Body Cardio Fix between driving the 2 kids to their schools.
I was WFH and crampy so eating wasn't great - I had the small remainder of vanilla ice cream with maple syrup at 10:30; lunch was leftover Orzo with cheese; in the afternoon I was drinking chocolate syrup out of the bottle (and then throwing the rest away); dinner was Breakfast for Dinner - Kodiak waffles, fruit and scrambled eggs.

Thursday - I had slept horribly the night before - I was so hot (time to put the lighter comforter on the bed I think) and I slept in all the way until 7:00! Eating was so-so - Afternoon eating was 2 fudgicles, PB and a banana. Dinner was just me and the kids and we all ate leftovers - mine was a leftover waffle dipped in applesauce and a banana. The 3 of us had gone grocery shopping after school and while I got them a bunch of junk I felt pretty good about my choices.

Friday - It is Friday!!! Tomorrow is supposed to 67! Spring break is only 2 weeks away! I was 223.6 this morning so I am going to work really hard today!

Not much planned for the weekend but I hope to be able to test out my trail shoes for a 4 mile run. And tomorrow I'd like to get out of the house of the nice day - we will see how excited the kids are for that *roll eyes*

WW Weigh-in

i did make it to WW. Weight was 224.6 this morning. Down .4 from last week.

I can’t say I wasn’t a little disappointed. I hoped that the pounds would just melt away and I’d be at the 223.2 of 6 weeks ago or the 223.6 of 2 weeks ago. But I also know I didn’t put in the work either.

While waiting for the meeting (or Workshop in new WW lingo) to start, I wrote all my Saturday weights down:

I can’t help be a little discouraged, but it is all my own fault. But at the same time I feel so much better than I did at the beginning of the year.

Yesterday I ate fairly well. I made sure I had a filling snack before we did errands. The loot I got for myself was:
- Trail running/hiking shoes - the guy at REI said I only needed 1 pair - I was going to try them out this morning but we woke up to some snow and 20 mph winds so they will wait
-bunch of casual and yoga type bras from Target - no underwire, not as much support as needed for running - weekends are meant for being comfortable!
-LL Bean Hassan a 25% online coupon good through yesterday so I ordered a hair of hiking pants and hiking capris. I am a little nervous about them being 1X (or 18W) because with my Columbia hiking pants I had to go up to 20W, but I refuse to do that again. I also ordered a comfy fleece top - at first I put a 1X in my cart but then remembered I don’t need that up top and switched it for a XL.

I ended up not exercising this morning. I enjoyed a leisurely morning reading a book before my errands. Then after today I’ll focus my shopping away from me and back to who I usually focus most of my energy on, the rest of my family.

Retail therapy, here I come!

Okay, not really retail therapy because that sounds like things have gone wrong and I need a pick me up. It's more that I need to do some shopping it order to round out my wardrobe (work and play).

But let's see how the week has rounded out. Not great I should admit.

I ended up with a binge mid-day Wednesday. I had some work assignments due the afternoon that were stressing me out. I was home so this is what I ate between 11:30 and 12:30:
--Finished off the bag of waffle potato chips from the party - maybe 1-1/2 cups
--Add 1/2 a container of pitted olive medley (I was definitely craving salt!)
--Picked at a bunch of pineapple that was in the container of ham
--3 string cheeses
--1 small can of gingerale
--A microwavable Skippy PB&J snack pack (310 calories)

While I wasn't stuffed I felt crappy about what I ate. But I didn't eat anything else until dinner, which was:
2 tacos on a flaxseed tortillas, with: chicken, black beans, spanish rice, sour cream (full fat), Monterrey Jack cheese (full fate), 1 individual serving tub of guacamole, lettuce, jalepenos

Even though I did cardio on Wednesday, I was eager to get into what will be my routine going forward - cardio on Tuesday and Thursdays, strength training on Monday/Wed/maybe Friday. So I did the Cardio Fix video with 21 Day Fix. It doesn't include any weights, but some intense moves like mountain climbers and burpees. Wow my whole body hurt! And my eating was pretty much on point yesterday. We didn't have a ton of food in the house so I went grocery shopping after dinner so I wouldn't have to go out in the rain this morning. Going grocery shopping after dinner is great because you don't crave anything!

I was going to do Yoga this morning, but our fire alarm went off at midnight (after I had gone to bed at 10:00) and I couldn't fall back asleep for a long time so I turned off my alarm.

Friday's weight was 225.4. No weight loss in over 6 weeks. But better than gaining!

So I did a fun activity this morning. I tried on all my spring and summer clothes. By fun I am being sarcastic. But it was a necessary activity. For the most part everything fits okay - My shorts will feel a little better in a few more pounds lost (part of the incentive of doing this exercise). After trying everything on, I came up with the following shopping list:

--Trail Running shoes (I've never owned them, I am excited!)
--Hiking shoes (not boots)
--Sock liners (I don't like to feel the wool socks against my feet)
--A couple more short hiking socks
--Casual weekend sports bras - I threw out my old ones - they were really stretched out
--A few pairs workout capris - again, some of mine are old and worn and too stretched out
--Work and weekend t-shirts/short sleeve - I don't have enough
--Better hiking tank tops and t-shirts - the ones I have are really high cut - I prefer a scoop neck or v-neck - I just hate how the ones I have look on my - I look very frumpy, so I need to find some more
--I'll also be on the look out for some more baggy capri pajamas/lounging pants

I can't wait!

Now I just need to get through today. I really need to get back on track with the weight loss, I NEED to get out of the 220s. Time of the month is scheduled for  next week and I THINK I'm surviving this month. All the junk from the party is out of the house, I didn't bring more into the house, and I am going to really concentrate on eating well, food prepping, getting my protein in, getting my water in and try to blast out of the lower 220s. I need it so badly. I saw 219.8 for 1 day in February 2016 and that was the last time, so I NEED to do this but I know I really need to put in some hard work to push past this.

Needing to get back on task

I realized this morning that I couldn't find my headphones. I didn't remember the last time I had seen them, which shows how long it has been since I walked on the treadmill. Since I've started getting up at 5:30 am I haven't been as good as getting in my walks on my treadmill. When I've been at work I've been okay about getting 1-3 walks in. But since I've told myself that I don't have to hit 10K steps as long as I get in 60 minutes throughout the day, I've been slacking. If I do my 3 10-minute walks at work, in addition to my 30 minutes in the morning, then I can be done by 12:30-1:00 and then I slug out the remainder of the day.

My Daily Habits tracking has also been sorely lacking - lots and lots of unchecked items each day. Weighing in every day is unchecked almost every day, and the big ones: Healthy PM Snack and Being Proud of My Eating are not checked most days and those are my major problem areas.

There is still junk food in our house from my son's birthday:
Monday was a pretty stressful day - While I had started out the day strong and even though I came home at 12:30 to deal with a tween crisis and I ate my AM snack and planned lunch, the afternoon fell apart. I was in conference calls all afternoon and my daughter served me ice cream with chocolate sauce and a cupcake during it. Good news is the ice cream and chocolate sauce is now gone from the house. Dinner was a mismosh of leftovers - ham, mac and cheese, salad, devilled eggs.

Tuesday I got up and did 21 Day Fix Upper Fix. I love it when my arms burn, but I hate the pushups and planks.

I got 2 walks in at work and ate well until my normal disaster time. My afternoon snack was 2 cupcakes and a bunch of Hersey's kisses (that no one else in the house knew about). And then at 4:30 I was tempted to try a Skippy PB&J snack pack that I had impulse bought at BJ's the week prior. Dinner was pasta/ham/broccoli with grated cheese. Only one (large) helping.

All day yesterday I was itching to do some cardio - It had been since Friday that I had run. But I didn't feel like getting on the treadmill. And I didn't want to take the time to find a new cardio video. So I decided to jump on the bike for 30 minutes - I did intervals of running on the bike and past pedaling with regular pedaling in between. It felt awesome! I do need to come up with a regular routine of what work outs I will do during the week.

Now I am WFH and feeling pretty tired and feeling mentally weak. I threw away the rest of the Hersey Kisses. The only cupcakes left are vanilla which are no where near as good as chocolate. And I brought the ice cream bar toppings downstairs hoping that out-of-sight will keep me away from the Hersey's chocolate sauce. I did have a banana around 9:00 but it is time for my breakfast so I should go eat it to stay on schedule.

Weekend recap

What a busy weekend. While it was fun, I am glad it is Monday and back to the routine.

I started off my Saturday with WW. Weight was 225.0. Same as 2 weeks prior at WW - Up 1.4 since the previous week at home.

After a quick snack, I headed to the reservoir. Areas that get sun were clear of snow, but areas that are in the shade were pretty icy. So I did one look and then for the second loop I walked 1/2 way and then turned around.

 

The rest of the day was spent preparing for my son's 10th birthday. I made these 3 treats.

Eating on Saturday was not great - There were nibbles and tries of all the food. And I wasn't in the mood to cook anything on Saturday night so my husband was out so I had him bring home 2 pizzas. Yes, 2 pizzas because I knew I wanted more than 2 pieces.

And then Sunday was one big blur. Breakfast was Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls per my son's request. I had 2. The party was 1:00-4:30 - So a lot of party food, and I had actual dinner around 6:30 with leftover ham and mac and cheese, and ice cream with chocolate sauce.

Today is another day. As much as I would have liked to sleep in, I got up to do Total Cardio Fix. And then I purged some of the food and hope to do more this afternoon prior to trash tomorrow. Before I left for work I did some grocery shopping because we didn't have a lot of "real food" because the fridge had been full for the party. I bought myself some Lean Cuisine pizzas because I was afraid if I didn't then I would just continue to buy my lunch this week.

Hoping for a good week!

Almost all the streaks are gone.....

Last year I made it to March 12th without buying my lunch as work and this year I made it to March 14th. But I will start a new streak!

Wednesday I didn't work out and I didn't even do any walking breaks. I had my annual GYN appointment on Wednesday - and I know this is TMI, but I didn't want to walk a lot before I went and be all sweaty *ahem* :) And I didn't want to eat or drink much because I knew I would get weighted and also I didn't want my stomach full. So I was ravenous when I got home at 12:00. I started with a treat - 4 fudgicles softened in the microwave, a banana and PB. Yum. And then I had lunch - leftover pasta - it was definitely more than 1 serving - with cheese and 2 pieces of garlic bread.

I was busy all afternoon with work so still didn't take any walk breaks. Dinner was sheet chicken fajitas - yummy, but I had white flour tortillas, not flax, and full fat sour cream (that is all we had in the house).

Thursday I did get up and do Upper Body Fix. I upped my weights a little bit.

At 7 am I registered for a 10K in Maine in August. I did it in 2015 (and registered 1 or 2 more times since then but bagged out). So now I have something to train for!!!

And the day went downhill from there. I brought all my normal foods to work. But it was Employee Appreciation Day which meant breakfast this month - green pancakes, sausage, bacon, fruit and cranberry juice.

My water bottle leaked in the car - I thought just on the seat but when I got to my desk I realized it leaked on my backpack and in walking into work, the back of my pants was all wet. So I wasn't going to do my laps with a huge water stain on my butt!!!

I had meetings from 10-12 and 12:30-2. So in my 1 free 1/2 hour I decided to just run down and get my standby: chicken salad on a whole wheat tortilla.....with a side of macaroni salad...and a can of coke....and a M&M cookie.

After work I ran to BJ's to get a few things (no impulse buys!) THEN went Grocery Shopping Part I. Then had dinner of spaghetti with butter and cheese (and everyone-for-themselves night).

Originally I was going to run 3.17 on Sunday to celebrate my son's 10th birthday, but it is supposed to be 61 today, so after going Grocery Shopping Part II and bringing my son to school I ran 3.15 miles. I haven't run more than 3 miles without run/walking since July of 2017. Did it in 38:24 - average of 12:12. I would like to try to get out again on Sunday or go to the reservoir, but we are having a party mid-day so who knows what Sunday will look like!

So, after yesterday, my only streak is that I am still tracking. Who knows what my weight will look like at WW tomorrow but 1) I won't let it be a free-for-all from now through Sunday and 2) After Sunday I am really going to reel it back in - I know with less sugar my running (and I) feel a lot better!

Spring is almost here!!!!!!!

Friday yet?!

Just bring on the weekend because it is going to be so busy!

Monday was a good day until I was making dinner. Even though I had had my chicken salad as a snack around 4:00, I was making Pad Thai and I just kept eating peanuts, and peanuts, and peanuts...And then had 2 helpings of my Pad Thai. No one else was gung ho about it and I was in a pissy mood when the rest of my family doesn't even try what I make so I threw the rest of it away.

Prior to Tuesday I was 12.75 miles to run to match my miles for 2018 (which was a very sad 58.25 miles). So I decided to run 2.75 to get it to an even 10.

 From then on the day was kind of a downer and very busy. One of the busyness was seeing the nutritionist. My old one had retired. I thought this was going to be her replacement, but turns out she is only filling in for a couple of months until they hopefully hire her replacement. While I thought I should concentrate on my afternoon snack next, she wanted me to concentrate on my lunch - get rid of my Lean Cuisine 12 point 400 calorie, high in sodium, very high in carb staple lunch that I have been eating for 12+ years. So when I am at the grocery store I am going to look for some low carb/no carb alternatives (and then I can add some low carb sides).

At 3 o'clock the stress of the day finally wore me down and I ended up eating the 2 Hersey bars I had bought for skiing. Mind you, these are not just the normal drug-store Hersey bars. These are called XL. But what is done is done.

Dinner was pasta/sauce/cheese/salad/1 piece of garlic bread - no seconds even though I really wanted it.

I didn't get to bed until 10:30 (I HAD to watch This Is Us but didn't start until 9:45) so before I went to bed I changed my alarm from 5:30  to my old 6:00, even though I had laid out my clothes. After the day I had had I knew I needed the extra sleep. Today isn't going to great, but hopefully will be somewhat better.

On a side note, I was going back and forth with my college BFF. We became friends in December 2019 and we were able to communicate through a rudimentary email system (we didn't go to the same college). It was so cool - this was years before the Internet and years before the majority of the people at our colleges had email. Now I feel really, really old!

Flying down the slopes

After a successful Friday, I woke up at my normal Saturday time of 6:00 am so we could head north to New Hampshire to ski. I weighed in at 223.6. Sweet! Only .4 than I had been 4 weeks prior.

I had bought some Hot Cross Buns. I am not religious, but they remind me of my childhood. They had been starring at me all day Friday, so I figured I could have 1...or 2 :) before getting on the road. I also had made a flaxseed waffle PB&J sandwich to have closer to the slope instead of the donuts the rest of the family got at Dunkin's.

It was a beautiful day! We were very spoiled by spring skiing.
Eating, not so healthy :)
We stopped at a lodge at the top of the mountain for lunch around 11:30. I had water, a cheeseburger, a few of my kids fries (they were so good!!) and 2 Reeses PB cups (I hadn't had those since Halloween - so yummy!)
I was done before the rest of the family - my legs were tired from running and not skiing in 16 years and I still needed to drive home, so I bagged out an hour or so before everyone else. I went up to the bar to wait for them and in addition to finishing off a whole pitcher of water by myself, I had a chili with some tortilla chips and 2 beers.
After the family was done the kids wanted grilled cheese and I still had a small bag of M&Ms in my pocket that I gave to them and had a few of.

 

When we got home I had a few pieces of Hershey chocolate - my mom always brought chocolate for us to nibble on the chair lift - I left it in the car by mistake. I had gotten a large bar so 4 squares didn't fit in the baggie. Of course now all this chocolate is in our house - I really should throw it away in trash night tonight....And then I had 1 more hot cross buns (needless to say no one else in my family has wanted hot cross buns so the other 3 are now in the trash).

Dinner was spaghetti with zoodles - I had probably 1 1/2 servings of it.

 Sunday I let myself sleep in until 9:00. I had wanted to hike around the reservoir but it was snowing (not that that alone would have deterred me) and I needed to do Grocery Shopping Trip #2 before it turned to freezing rain. Weight was 224.4.

I didn't have anything to eat until I made a smoothie around 11:30.

I then spent time meal prepping: yogurt parfait for 2 days, bagged carrots, chicken salad, and hard boiled eggs.

I had some chicken salad around 2:00

At 3:30 I had another snack of 2 sugar free fudgicles, a banana, and some natural PB. Yum!

I was still hungry so dinner at 5:15 was leftover spaghetti/zoodles. Probably too much.

And no, I did no exercise on Sunday. I put my Fitbit in the charger and had a nice day not thinking about exercise and steps.

And now it is Monday. 1st day of Daylight Savings. Always hard to get up in the dark, but I did. Total Cardio Fix from 21 Day Fix. Great way to start out the week.

I have 2 doctor's appointments this week - 2 times to get on the scale. So I am going to try to have a successful week, because next weekend we party!

5/5 5:30 am wake-ups!

Happy Friday!! I am beyond excited for Friday (who isn't?!)

Wednesday was a pretty good eating day - my afternoon snack (which wasn't until 4:50!) was 2 more string cheeses and a peaches (ie a repeat of my morning snack) and dinner was Korean BBQ (from the freezer), jasmine rice (just the microwaveable kind) and stir fried snap peas with water chestnuts.

Thursday I really didn't want to get up - I had slept poorly and has visions of staying in bed, but what would an extra 30 minutes do for me? I knew I had a 3 mile date with the treadmill since I wouldn't be running on Saturday, and I didn't want to break that date and I didn't. I just wanted to get through the 3 miles - I didn't want to break any speed records so I just kept it on 4.8 the entire time and finished in 37:32. I was in such a hurry to get upstairs that I didn't do a cool down and thus didn't snap a picture on the treadmill. It felt good to get to that 3 mile mark. No more runs under 3 miles for this one (except I may do a 2.75 mile run next week just to get my 2019 mile tally to a nice round number!)

I didn't end up drinking chocolate milk after which I wish I had - I was definitely feeling the effects of not enough nutrition by the time I got to work, but I did get in a 3 floor walk before having my breakfast. Eating was okay until my afternoon "snack" which was 2 small pieces of leftover homemade pizza. Dinner was pulled pork (from the freezer), baked beans (just a few), couple onion rings, and some coleslaw (I made the coleslaw, my husband "made" the rest, I needed SOME veggies)

After going to bed at 9:30, I had a date with Yoga Fix from 21 Day Fix on Friday. I've never really tried yoga. You will notice my sneakers - I was in just such a rhythm this morning that I automatically put my sneakers on, forgetting that yoga is done barefoot. I am horrible at yoga, but definitely excited to add it into my routine once a week.

I did weigh myself this morning 225.0. Even though I am not going to WW in the morning, I am going to keep my same Friday menu (substituting Natural PB for my Nutella in my wrap for "dinner") so I can get an accurate read in the morning. Then I will have 2 mini breakfasts before skiing to get some more fuel in my body.

So it has been 4 weeks since my endoscopy and while the scale was 223.2 the next morning, that was kind of a false reading. I hadn't eaten a ton the day before plus had some intestinal issues, and that was the week that the scale just went up and up and up 5+ pounds. I've been 225.0 the last couple of Saturdays, so this month has been a wash. I really, really, really want to get under 220s so I am going to have to work hard despite my son's birthday coming up in 9 days.

Happy Friday and Happy Weekend!

Midweek check in

Mid-week! Can't it be Friday yet?! We have a fun date with a ski mountain on Saturday (first time on skis for me in 16 years!!!)

Monday was an okay day - The snow was heavy, so my back definitely felt it shoveling the stairs and walk, but the sun came by late-morning and it was fun to shovel in sunglasses. Right now it is freezing and doesn't feel like spring is 2 weeks away, but it makes it easier knowing that the snow won't last for long.

Eating on Monday was so-so. I had leftover spaghetti instead of my normal Lean Cuisine pizza, but I did eat my carrots! My afternoon snack (darn it for not  making my chicken salad over the weekend) was a tiny bit of Nutella, a banana, PB crackers and some pepperoni. For dinner I made stuffed peppers and just had 1.

Nutella, my friend, my enemy. While I am no Christian and don't usually do anything for the Easter period, I've decided to try to give up Nutella for Lent. That includes my single serving that I have been eating pre-WW. Let's see how it goes!

Tuesday I did Upper Fix from 21 Day Fix and then worked in the office. I got in a couple walks and ate my normal stuff. I headed home about 2:00. I didn't have an afternoon snack and I did get in another walk at 5:20 which brought me to my 10K. Dinner was homemade pizza and salad. My 1/2 of the pizza had garlic, black olives, jalapenos, pineapple and ham (I did also have a couple slices of ham while prepping my pizza). I did have too much pizza though :(

I didn't get to bed at 9:30 because I was watching This is Us, but I did shortly after 10:00 and was up at 5:30 to do Lower Fix from 21 Day Fix. My arms were definitely sore from the Upper Fix yesterday.

I love how light it is in the mornings. I know in a week it won't be that way, but I know we we will re-coop that daylight within a month. It makes me feel so alive knowing that spring is coming!

I am still struggling with the fact that I am not weighing myself in the mornings. I know I need to get past that - I am getting up and moving my body, so that is a good thing!

As I mentioned, we are going skiing on Saturday, so I won't be going to WW on Saturday morning. I contemplated going on Friday but we have a really salty dinner planned Thursday night, which I know is wrong, but I don't know if I would even be able to stay for the meeting on Friday, so I may just act like Friday is a normal Friday (without the Nutella!), weigh in before we leave on Saturday, and go from there.

WW Weigh-in and Weekend recap

I was 225.0 on Saturday, so down a pound from last week.

After my meeting and after having a flaxseed waffle with almond butter and jelly, I ran 2.75 miles on the treadmill. I contemplated going outside, but it was lightly snowing and while I've run in the snow before, I was wary about being out. For a while I thought maybe I would do 3 or 3.14 miles, but decided to stop after my planned distance.

The rest of the day was pretty relaxing, which isn't always great for the nutrition:
Chocolate milk post-run
Yogurt/blueberries/granola around 11:00
Snack of nuts and dried fruit around noon
Whole box of Kraft Mac and Cheese around 2:00 (not buying Kraft anymore!)
Another snack of nuts and dried fruit around 3:30
Spaghetti with real butter and some cheese around 6:30
"cupcake" (ie Kodiak chocolate muffin) with frosting courtesy of my daughter

I was in bed at 10:00 and woke up at 6:30. After relaxing on the couch for a while catching up on some DVRed shows and also a quick trip to the grocery store, I decided to go to the reservoir. After a breakfast of a flaxseed sandwich with natural PB and jelly and a banana, I headed out. It was so wonderful to be outside - I hadn't walked in the snow in so long. It was great to just hear the birds and the crunch of the snow. I wore my Garmin this time so I could determine if the distance was what I expected - it was. Two times around was about 3.4 miles.

When I got back my husband and son were making fried eggs. I made a spiralized sweet potato with some cinnamon (I cooked it in butter instead of oil and it didn't cook it as well), 2 fried eggs, vanilla yogurt and blueberries. Yum!

A "snack" at 1:00 was another cupcake, leftover spaghetti with cheese, and a scoop of Nutella. Around 2:00 my son wanted to make Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls - I had two. At 5:00 I had some peanut butter crackers. Dinner was more spaghetti along with french bread. A very high carb day. In bed at 10:00. The kids have a school day on Monday, but I don't.

I got up at 5:30 like "normal" and did Total Cardio Fix from 21 Day Fix. My arms are tired and will be more tired after shoveling later, but for now I need to work :(

March 1!!!!!!

I am beyond excited that it is a new month. 1 step closer to spring and to our vacations!

Overall I am not very happy with my progress this month, really the last 3 weeks. I had started off the month strong but since my endoscopy on February 8 it's been all downhill (or weight gain since).

I was 225.6 on Feb 1 and 227.2 this morning, but my low on Feb 9 was 223.2.

But it is a brand new month!

But let's finish with February.
Thursday morning I woke up at 5:30 not exactly sure what exercise I would do, but decided that my legs felt okay to run. So I made sure I had everything I needed, fans in the right places, and ran 2.5 miles in 30:39. The mental toughness is still there but it feels so good to get through it. So I finished with 14.5 miles for the month (and these were all running versus the 25 in January which were a combo of run/walk except for my last run on January 31).

Eating yesterday was far from stellar - I had leftover teriyaki chicken for lunch and my daughter and friend made brownies in the afternoon. I was feeling pretty lethargic and period crampy yesterday.

I was looking forward to chilling in front of Thursday night ABC TV from 8-11 but didn't get to start watching until 9:30 so stayed up until 12:30! I had already resigned myself that I wasn't going to work out on Friday so I did sleep in a little late. And so far this morning I have:
Driven both kids to school
Gone grocery shopping
Balanced the checkbook and paid bills
Brought our taxes to the Post Office to send to the accountant

And now I work......