cooking – Sweat & Sparkle

daylightsavingsproblems Maybe we should turn the clocks back an hour every weekend, because I got so much done this weekend! Okay, maybe that’s not exactly a great idea. In fact, it’s a terrible idea. But I am seriously proud of how much I accomplished this weekend, even with the time change.

First up, as always, was weigh-in on Saturday morning. I lost 1.4 pounds, still slowly but surely crawling closer to my goal. My weight loss has definitely slowed down, but that’s okay. It means I am really close to my goal. I am just getting really impatient to hit the 140s already, because I can’t wait for my next weight loss reward!

With help from my husband and stepson, the yard is completely mowed, leaves and branches raked up and bagged up. I love our house and our yard, and it looks so nice when it is freshly mowed. Even after the manual labor, I wasn’t done: I swept, mopped, vacuumed, scrubbed down the showers, and then cleaned out and organized the cabinets and storage shelves in our laundry room. (Color-coordinated baskets, anyone?)

Yesterday I spent some time meal prepping, and I am looking forward to lunch today. I made salmon, asparagus, and red potatoes (recipe here) and boxed up enough for several lunches this week. I also washed and sliced strawberries for my dessert. No excuses when everything is already prepped and packaged for the week.

Last night I tried on some pants in my closet, and I have added another pair of pants to the collection of clothes that finally fit again! My goal-weight jeans are still stubbornly holding out on me, but I know they will fit again. Soon!

After a few weeks of not being terribly particular about logging my weigh-in, or weighing in at all, I stepped on the scale this past Saturday and had no idea if I had gained or lost. Turned out I both maintained and lost: based on the last time I actually logged my weigh-in, I maintained, but based on a mid-week weigh-in for a weight loss challenge, I lost a little bit. I didn’t gain, that’s for sure, and that was a nice change of pace!

Yesterday, my husband, my stepson, and I all had a rare day off on the same day, so we spent the afternoon and evening together. It was a lot of fun. When we got home, we were all starving, and I had a new recipe (BBQ chicken) I wanted to try out. I’m still not certain if it was actually that good, or if we were just so hungry that we would eat anything we could spear with a fork, but there was nothing left on anyone’s plate.

This week I’m aiming for a 2-pound weight loss. I need to get serious and consistent. Logging my breakfast, maybe my lunch, then pigging out and just not logging my dinner as if that cancels out the calories has not been working, believe it or not! I signed up for some fitness classes this week to make sure I get more workouts in. It’s going to be a good week!