How are you ladies?

How is everyone doing? I hope all is well!

So I am having a hard time with weight watchers. haha I am not tracking anything anymore but I am way more conscience of what I am eating. Whenever I eat instead of tracking my food I chant to myself "what would weight watchers do" haha. I still use the food counter as a reference but I am kind of doing my own thing. So when I go out to eat or get fast food I get what I want but I scale it down. I don't get the chicken nugget meal with fries at McDonald's anymore. I chose instead to get the hamburger happy meal with apple slices. It settles the craving and is not going to completely throw me off track. I have lost about 6 pounds so I am happy and I am way more active. It makes me aware of myself.  Also my mom jumped on the band wagon and she is being active with me and eating better so she's a great support.

It is a very slow process but I think this is what I needed. Before I was so intense when I wanted to lose weight and I think that set me up to fail. The routine would become old after awhile and I would just give up. I really didn't understand this vicious cycle until I did WW so I am grateful to them. The weekly weigh ins also give me a big push in the right directions when it comes to weight loss. I keep wanting to see lower numbers and it definitely makes me want to work harder.  I still slip up now and then mostly with sweets and second servings of food but it happens lol.

As for my workout routine I have good news. The doctor has given me the okay to start stretching. He gave me 10 stretches to do at home twice a day and I started yesterday. They are a mix of yoga and pilates type stretches. It is rough ladies haha I haven't stretched or worked out since November 2010!  So I am hoping with those stretches, some swimming, and walking the park it will lead to good things. Okay one last thing those walking videos I posted by Leslie Sansone are awesome. I do the 5 min one before my stretches and I try to do the longer one when I don't walk. Try them out they are fun.

Again I hope you are both well and I would love to know how you are both doing in your endeavorers.

IT CAN"T RAIN ALL THE TIME

IT CAN"T RAIN ALL THE TIME...this means two very different things to me. One is just what it says, although here in WA it's been trying to. I can't wait to have the warm sun on my face when I walk instead of whipping wind and rail/hail mix. And March still has to come in like a lion!!!

IT CAN'T RAIN ALL THE TIME... also means that things get stormy sometimes but we can't let that get us down. Maybe we're broke. Maybe we're hurting. Maybe we're stressed. Maybe we're pudgy. We're alive! Things will always even out or get better. The sun will shine, just maybe not today. If we stay strong and keep our goals in focus then we can't fail.

Confession Time

Okay, so I haven't been focussing on my health and fitness goals AT ALL for January or February.

Truth be told, I've been in a bit of a depressed state. My job is horrible, my finances are a mess because the more unhappy I am the more I spend. Luckily, at some point in my life I switched from stress eating (so my weight has maintained since my weight loss in the summer) to stress shopping, but now I've made a mess of things. I'm not behind on anything (except some medical bills) but I am back to living week to week financially and it's adding even more stress. It's a horrible cycle and I can't seem to get out of it.

I have always known myself to be a 'starter.' I have many interests and many projects started - way more than I have projects that I've finished. I think I used them as a way to avoid reality. It is feeling like right now, I'm out of control and it's making me sick.

Over the next few days, I'm going to try to set some little goals for myself in the areas of health, fitness, financial, work, and projects. Even that list seems overwhelming right now but I am 41 for God's sake! I've got to figure out how normal people do it! I might just make a broad goal for March and then break that down into two-two week time frames. When I'm planning for school, I always start with the big picture and plan backwards and that works so maybe I can figure this out!

Maybe you'll regret my moving this to a more private space, because there might be more for you to listen to than just my positive cheers! Sorry.

Short Month...Good or Bad

February is a short month, in a way for me this is good since my goals go by month ( And Feb has been a wash for me) I am ready to start March. However is is bad since I could have gone full board all short month. Oh well no sense in dwelling on it right? I still have ten days to really go for it.

Valentines Day

Well today is Valentines day and you know what that means...Candy Candy Candy. Oh, and love!!! Hope you ladies have a good one and give yourselves permission to splurge. I just ate a red velvet cupcake!! Yummy

I only have ten pounds t go until I am at a "Normal" BMI. February has been rather hard for me to keep on a good eating routine. I am walking at lunch though and have been talking to my sweetie about jogging together when the morning hours become lighter. How are you ladies doing? Sammy give me the WW update..still loving it? Christine? How are your fitness plans/goals going for you?

Welcome to the new spot! May it be filled with great inspiration!

Hi everyone! I hope you like the new spot and that it's not too terrible to have made this switch. I just couldn't stand explaining the thing to everyone over and over again. I've also had some folks stop keeping in touch because my original blog turned into something else. I'd really stopped posting about the knitting projects and now I'll have that space back too.