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The Day After Christmas

Made it through both Thanksgiving and Christmas without gaining weight.  In fact, right after Thanksgiving , I managed to lose two pounds.  Now that the holiday stress and FOOD are gone, I can continue onward and downward. 

Today was a decompression day.  Slept late.  The only work I did was making Middle Monkey a pinapple upside down cake for his birthday.  No I did not eat any cake.  Didn't even think about it. 

In eight days I will turn 48.  So glad I got control of my weight and health before it became even harder as I age.  This will be the first new year that I can actually say I accomplished something huge the previous year.  My weight loss was not a new years resolution, it was actually a April Fool's Day resolution.  Maybe I should make all my resolutions April Fool's Day resolutions.  Worked this year.  Maybe next year I will learn Spanish and become a yoga instructor.  

Brief Update

Still holding the weight steady.  Went to yoga last night.  It felt great to stretch and balance. Working on my upper body strength.  It is slowly but surely getting better.  Who knew you can have weak fingers.  Maybe by the time Sharon gets done with me, I'll be able to open all my own jars. 

- 33 pounds

I can't believe I failed to document -32 and -33 pounds.  - 33 happened a couple of weeks ago and I am holding steady again. I did fall off the training wagon for a couple of weeks because of kids stuff and work stuff and well, just life in general.  That is okay though.  I returned to yoga last night no worse for the break.  I will return to the couch to 5k most likely tomorrow as I have yoga again tonight and doing them both on the same day proved to be more than my middle aged body could reasonably handle. 

This has been and will continue to be a gentle journey..  I intend to be much kinder to myself as I grow older.  That doesn't mean easy on myself, however.  It just means I will care for my body and spirit in diet, exercise, work and other meaningful activities. 

25 pounds to go and I will be at the top level of my "healthy" weight.  Already my blood pressure has normalized and I feel soooo much better.  Need to leave myself a note to come here and document my activities, foods and progress more often so I will have the story complete to tell when all the extra weight is gone. 

-31 pounds

Got on the scale this morning and I am now down 31 pounds.  I love this because I am eating better than ever.  Last night I had something we will call Shrimp Larry.  Shrimp, onion, mushrooms, celery diced tomato and a lot of spice. It was soooo good.

Now it sit here on this cold December morning all folded up in my office chair.  Did I mention I can now comfortably cross my legs?  I know that shouldn't be a big deal, but it is a BIG deal.  I love getting smaller. 

Back in the Garden.

Last night I started week 5 of the couch to 5k.  I did my wog (walk/jog) at the track.  Because I realized how far I was going, I pushed myself harder.  I am supposed to be doing three miles in 30 minutes in the next 3 weeks.  I managed 2 miles walking and jogging.  I started to make myself do week 5 day 2 this morning, but I was sore and tired.  Instead I spent 30 minutes in my garden and I am going to stretch out really good here in a few minutes.  I have to work until 9 tonight. Hopefully, I will have enough energy to go do the wog tonight when I get home.  Otherwise, it will have to wait until tomorrow.  If I had more time, I would go ahead and do it now.  The light exercise of working in the garden really made me feel better.  Maybe gardening should be my warmup.