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Setback

Sometimes life is not exactly cooperative. When I hurt my knee recently, I thought, okay, well, this sucks, but it will heal up. I will take it slower, limp around, and do what I need to do to take care of it.

Just as my knee finally loosened up, and I could walk semi-normally again, I ended up rushing from work to Urgent Care because I didn’t feel good at all. I left with a prescription for antibiotics, which upset my stomach so bad. I just want to curl in a ball and whimper, but alas, I’m at work instead, waiting for quitting time.

I’m excited for some things we have planned next week, so my focus this weekend will be resting and healing so I can be as close to 100% as possible and able to enjoy myself next week. I’m frustrated but also know that a bad attitude will multiply any problems and make things worse.

I’ve made a lot of positive changes and don’t want to slide back into any bad habits. Ultimately, though, that is completely up to me and in my control. I can let these setbacks toss me onto my butt and leave me there, or I can take a breather, remind myself of my goals, and get myself back to healthy so I can come back kicking.

January Goals

new year motivational quotes Unique denim and chocolate January ? New beginningsHappy new year!  It’s exciting to have a fresh, blank, brand new year stretched out ahead of us, full of opportunity and chances and possibilities.

Don’t worry, I won’t start rambling about “new year, new me”.  I burned out on that after many, many years of vowing to lose weight, then ending the year weighing just as much (if not more) than I started.

I keep reading comments on blogs and Facebook saying “I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, because they don’t work!”  It’s not the resolution’s job to work or not.  It’s our job to set a plan into motion and make them happen.

I haven’t done that in the past, until last year.  I finally decided enough was enough.  Weighing over 200 pounds was unhealthy, and I looked awful.  I knew I could do better.   Over half the year was gone before I got moving, but eventually, I got into gear and started making changes I desperately needed to make.

Unfortunately, December was a rough month.  Between travel, stress, a loaded schedule, and more than one personal loss, I crumbled under the strain.  After losing about 8 pounds in November, I managed to eek out only a 2-pound loss in December (after accounting for my gain).

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Time to get back to what works.  I was by no means thrilled to be back at work today, but I am relieved to have the holidays over and get back onto a more normal, regular schedule and routine.

I want to stay focused on this new-start mentality, this attitude of doing things differently if I want different (better) results.  I started with breaking up with my old gym.  I am sick of equipment that is constantly out of order, weekend hours that don’t work for me, and the last straw, the gym not opening on time when I got up at 5 AM to be there!  My first act this morning, as soon as I turned on the computer, was to sign up for a different gym.  Out with the old, in with the new!

My goals for January:

  1. Reach my next mini-goal of 159 pounds or lower
  2. Complete a distance run of 13.1 miles
  3. Strength train at least twice a week

The second half of 2018, I made a lot of progress to my goals.  Now, in 2019, it’s time to finish what I started!

Thanksgiving Survival Plan

54578a9b6d76bMost people are probably bustling around, frantically planning a Thanksgiving meal, calculating how many pies to bake, pondering which relatives to avoid sitting near each other, and strategizing their big grocery store trip…while I am mostly concerned about not gaining weight over Thanksgiving.

I will still weigh in Saturday morning as normal, so I need a plan to stay on track as much as possible.  First things first: I will work out that morning.  No compromises, no questions asked, no if’s, and’s, or but’s.  I signed up for a virtual Turkey Trot of 6.2 miles, so I will lace up and hit the trails that morning.

My plan is to eat my typical breakfast, and I would like for us to eat earlier in the day, closer to lunch than dinner, so that I’m not so full in the evening or before heading to bed.  I might add on a walk after we eat, depending if I have any takers to go with me (probably not!)

Friday will be back on track, morning workout, enjoying the day off, then venturing out for my younger stepson’s football game that evening.  Friday will be tricky.  Day off, out of routine, and a lot of leftover food in the fridge are all going to add up to a big, fat challenge, but I need to get a grip and stick to plan for a good weigh-in Saturday morning.

Not surprisingly, after increasing my running mileage so much, I have a pain in my right heel that I am concerned about.  It seems to fit all the symptoms of plantar fasciitis, oh yippee.  I have been reading a lot about it and treating it with ice, Epsom salt soaks, stretching.  I need to cut my miles and give it a chance to heal up, which is frustrating as hell.  I already planned a distance run this weekend, but I need to force myself to slow down and take care of this so it doesn’t get worse.

Happy Halloween!

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Get your Halloween workouts in today!

Happy My-Favorite-Holiday, otherwise known as Halloween!  My husband and I love to decorate for Halloween.  I don’t mean to brag or anything, but I’m pretty sure that we have the largest collection of life-size skeletons, outside of anatomy colleges.

Today is the official kick-off of the Hard-As-Hell-to-Lose-Weight season, too.  I came into work to a large platter of Halloween cupcakes in the kitchen, plus a cauldron of Halloween candy at the front desk.  It will only get worse tomorrow, when everyone brings in their leftover candy to make the rest of the office fat.

From here, we will soon launch into Thanksgiving, a holiday that has morphed into a day all about stuffing yourself crazy with food and pie, and then Christmas and its parties and traveling…help!

I just need to plan.  It worked for the days I had to travel for work last month.  I planned my workouts, planned my eating as best as I could, and I had a loss that week.  I need to do the same thing for Thanksgiving and Christmas, because I’m not willing to gain any of this weight back just because of some holidays.

The other night, I was digging through my dresser and trying on workout pants from the bottom of the drawer, where they got buried because I was too big to wear them.  I was able to move several of them to the top of the drawer, since they fit now.  Last night I was able to wear one of my favorite t-shirts to work out in.  It hasn’t fit since maybe last summer!

I also had to retire some clothes.  I tried on a sweater to wear to work today, and it was way too large.  Some of my clothes are baggy, and I still wear them, but this was too much.  I am keeping a bag in my closet to collect the clothes that are too big.  Right now it’s just a small bag.  When it’s a trash-bag full, I will take it to Goodwill and clear out some space for smaller clothes in the future.

Usually I buy our Halloween candy, and my strategy has been to buy candy I don’t like, so that any leftover candy is not even a temptation.  This year, my husband picked up the candy, and we now have a bag big enough for an army or a small village sitting on the kitchen counter.  Apparently he anticipates trick-or-treaters by the busload!  I will wait and see how much is left over, but I am pretty sure it will be a LOT.

Like I said, I just need to plan.  Then stick to it.  I might ask him to put the leftover candy into a bag in a cabinet that I don’t use much.  Then it’s at least out of sight.  Or maybe I just need to learn to say no and leave it alone!

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