SBF2 Reboot Boogaloo Aug. 16th

Hi All! I missed about a week but have been staying pretty much on track (with no budging of the scale, however).

This is a big week -- I'm going to the EMMY's on Saturday!! Keep your fingers crossed for Whale Wars to win!! I'm a little bummed as I really wanted to be a little thinner when shopping for my dress but I'm staying positive and will not give up the fight. I'm wearing a beautiful white, draped Grecian-style dress with silver strappy shoes. So excited!

We've got lots of out of town guests and I started my new NBC job today so it will be tough to keep a normal schedule but I'm going to try.

My goals are:
Get back into tracking calories, this has fallen by the wayside over the past week
Limit the sugar intake
Eat lightly and healthily (mainly vegetables and lean proteins) in these few days leading up to the event
Work out every day the next 5 days, even if it's at 10pm at night!

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Bobbie, thinking of you and your family.

Wandering, what's your new job? A two-hour commute sounds rough, but I hope you like it. Good luck at the Emmys - looking forward to seeing you looking glam!

I am TRYING to get my act together. I think I've gained 6-8 pounds in the past three months. I've made it to sunrise yoga at the gym twice now :yawn:, which I like. It makes me feel like I've at least done something good for the day, and I think it's probably good for my feet/ankle strength, too. Yay. I've managed to make it to dance class the last couple of weeks, too, which is good. I'm hoping to get to the gym, or another workout, twice a week besides the yoga - last week I managed once plus a walk. So, getting there. My eating hasn't been great, but I think I'm starting to bring things in line. I am trying to be kind to myself, though - I will get there, and beating myself up won't help.

MM & Mary, good luck keeping cool! I'm also trying to get back into the water habit - I've been drinking way too much coffee at work lately because the office is so cold (sorry!).

Easing back on the track, boogaloo! :flowerforyou:

Bobbie, so sorry to hear about your mom.:brokenheart: I will pray for comfort and peace for you and your family.

CP, that's right. Don't beat yourself up. Glad to see you able to get some work outs in.

WL, a two hour commute? I couldn't do that. Were you able to get to the gym?

This is our last Wednesday to have horse therapy. Next week it changes to Tuesdays, which is fine. Wednesdays will be a little less busy for me after today so I will not have excuses not to work out! I am going to try to walk again today if my hip allows. I kind of feel like I am going through a season of falling apart. I haven't been motivated to do much of anything, and I am blaming that on the way I've been eating, or was eating a few days ago. I started on my grocery list yesterday and I am really pushing the good stuff this week. I'm about 6 pounds away from my highest weight, and I really don't understand how I got here. I could understand if I was eating all the time and not working out but this really doesn't make sense to me. I will try changing up my diet again and see if I'm eating something that's just not good for me. If I don't start dropping pounds soon I may see about going to the doc and getting tested to find out what's going on. I know it's gets harder the older you get but I don't think this is an age thing.
So goals today: water and walking again.

Making changes boogaloo!
MM

Bobbie, I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's passing. My thoughts are with you and I think your goal for the week to settle back in is a wonderful idea. Remember to take care of yourself.

Good morning,
Quick post. I am going to a women's breakfast thing at my church this morning. Not sure what the calorie count is going to be there, but I will do my best not to pig out. Other than that it will be car shopping today, cleaning. I'm going to rest my hips today since it's been hurting a little worse. I did manage to walk an hour on the treadmill yesterday! Whoo-hoo! Still not very fast though. Oh and I did step on the scale again this morning to see if the half pound stayed gone and it was down two pounds from a few days ago! Yay! So nice to see it going down for a change!
Gotta run!
MM

Hi Pebbs!

So sorry to hear about your mother, Bobbie. Sending you thoughts and prayers for peace and strength and comfort.


I am tired, bloated and allergic from my trip. I had a wonderful time in Quebec City, ate too much but literally walked all day long up stairs (it's very hilly/bluffy there) and around cobblestone streets. Montreal didn't impress me much. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt, but it didn't seem as impressive as some make it out to be....Ah well, just MHO. I had a violent allergy attack the last day of the trip, that pretty much lasted the entire last (travel) day of the trip. I sneezed on the five hour train ride home. Boo. I'll post pics on FB this week some time. (Wanderin and Bobbie, if you're on FB and interested just send me a PM and I'll give you my full name).

I have to figure out how to get back on track now. I feel as if I ate every carb possible, both of the English and French variety, drank every cafe au lait available in all of Quebec, and ate every lovely dessert that was placed in front of me. Also, I didn't even pack my workout clothes (I did wish I had once we got to Montreal...it was raining, and the hotel had a nice fitness centre I didn't use.)

I'm taking one more day to recoup, and unpack and clean and stay home in the quiet. Then, I'm resuming workouts tomorrow. Before I left, in my last session with my trainer I said "please, just tell me what to do" and we worked out a new (similar, but a few changes) workout schedule for me, that fits with her priority of "don't exhaust yourself" and my priority of "productive workouts that I actually enjoy" I'm trying to work at taking the words of trained professionals as true. With exercise, I tend to do what some people do with medicine "if one is good...four is better!". So, I have realistic goals now, I think.

I'll post them as goals in the new week's thread, as I'm already too wordy.

Home, tired, and full boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Hi,
Bobbie, sorry your quiet weekend didn't work out like you had hoped. We had a boy at church get kicked out of Sunday school because he was disruptive and hit the teacher. :noway: It happens to a lot of parents.
V, good to see you back! Look forward to seeing pictures!
Mary, 9 hours of yoga? Really?

I won't say much about myself today. I'm grouchy again. I think the second half of my cycle is really effecting my attitude and energy levels. Plus it's just hot (106*). Someone made a comment today that really bothered me. I think it was said out of jealousy because I am a stay at home mom, and she has to work, but it also felt like a slap in the face. She works and then she and her husband come home and clean house. Apparently her husband wants the house really clean, not just picked up. She made the comment "Can't I be like Melissa?" in a sort of whiny voice. :huh: What is that suppose to mean? Then I went off on this pity party that everyone either thinks I'm a slob or I have a bunch of time on my hands.Like I have it easy because I only have one child, so why am I not getting all this other stuff done? Maybe I'm just over reacting. I think my attitude needs an adjustment. I've been struggling the last few weeks with feeling like I am just failing in every area. :ohwell: I know I will snap out of it. I just hate feeling this way.
Rant over. I'll be okay. I just need AF to come and go. :laugh:

Ready for a new week boogaloo.
MM