Weekly Update

On Friday I wore JEANS!! I have not worn jeans in years. I bought the jeans just before I went to Florida and did not wear them when I was down there. When I put them on Friday they fit good and by the end of the day they were baggy/big. I was also pleasantly surprised on my weigh in Friday morning. I am having aunt FLO visit and was not able to exercise as much as I wanted due to the knee sprain that happened last Saturday. Even with the problems I was down 6 lbs. This makes a total of 22.8lbs in 8 weeks or an average of 2.85 each week. I do think I will be under 300 by my doctor's appointment on 4/13. My first goal is to be 298 by 4/17.

Since I was not able to do cardio really this week I went to spark people and found some upper body strength training workouts. I did 5 exercises (2 sets 15 reps) twice this week. I plan to do it again today and maybe add another exercise. Next week I will look into lower body and core. I so am not interested in laying on the floor for crunches. I know there are standing up exercises for core. Adding something each month has been great for me. (J- Food Diary, F- Cardio, M- Stength Training) I am trying to figure out what to add or increase in April. I may need to just do more strength training at this point.

Today I had to start a new food diary since the other one is filled. It lasted 2 months. I think this is the longest I have kept a food diary in a long time. People are saying they can see a difference which is cool. My blood sugar has been staying in line and my blood pressure has been good.

Guess that is about it for now. I have more to write, but need to reboot.

Friday Recap

After work I picked up Skunkie and we went to Qdoba for dinner and then over to Lane Bryant. I had a scare after dinner. My new jeans have very short front pockets and when we left Qdoba my wallet fell out. We were at the one in Hamburg and drove across the street to Lane Bryant where I noticed I was missing my wallet. Quickly we headed back across the street. I rarely carry money but right now I still have some from my trip since I am not really eating out. I was so worried. Skunkie looked in the car while I went back into Qdoba. I started going up to the cashier as I saw a worker picking something up and then looking at the picture on my license. I just kinda shook my head and said, "Yup that is me." Once that was over we went back to Lane Bryant and Skunkie picked up 3 pairs of pants!

We got home and relaxed alittle before I had to go out and get Phaeton. He had to do alittle bit of overtime but we were still able to go to a movie. We went to Movie Tavern and saw Red Riding Hood. I enjoyed it, but the acting was not all that great. A couple of people have talked about reviews they have seen etc. I realize that to explain why I found a couple of the reviews off base it would give too much of the movie away.

So last night was a good night with spending money and having fun!

3rd post

Why yes this is my 3rd post of the day. *grins* I am not catholic but I find giving something up for Lent interesting. Last year I did not do well with giving up eating after 8pm. This year I really did not want something food related to give up. I am already doing really well with my food diary and exercise and adding something like that I think would have caused me problems. I did not want to sabotage myself. Because of this I had to really think of something to give up. I settled on computer games. I play Solitaire and Free Cell A LOT and a couple of facebook games will suck my time away.

So now I have been trying to figure out things to do instead since Wednesday. I have read a book and also did some surfing on some sites. As you can see I have become post happy on LJ. I knew that today and tomorrow are going to be the hard days. I cleaned up in the living room while Skunkie and Phaeton were out. Soon I may go out to Target and a couple of other places. I know I want to plan maybe some activities. Bowling sounds like a plan for one day. The thing is that the only thing really 'left' for me is to spend money. I am not playing computer games. I am not eating out. My last 'vice' is spending money. I have been good about it though and mostly getting things I need. Today I ordered a new bathing suit and 2 shirts from just my size. I need a new suit since mine is starting to breakdown from the chlorine. The suit was on sale and I also had a code for free shipping. :) Now the things that I have gotten that I do not need have been scratch off lottery tickets. That is only about $5/week though.

Ok, time to head out to Target or nap. Still deciding.