priorities

Stress seems to overrule my desire to be healthy sometimes. Does this happen for you? When I'm stressed, I usually stop caring about taking the time to eat right and exercise (the dreary cold weather doesn't help either). I have been eating terribly the past 2 weeks, but thankfully, I dropped down .4 pounds. No record breaking numbers, but at least it's a loss.

Ready to get this train movin. I'm the only one holding myself back. I need to get myself to the grocery store and plan out some meals. What am I waiting for? sigh

Back in the Saddle Again...

So I didn't reach my 10 pounds before New Year's plan.... but I also didn't plan on being sick with whooping cough for several weeks. I'm still coughing, and therefore not exercising much yet.

I slacked a lot over the holiday in regards to counting points and being "good" when it comes to eating... I returned though, to Weight Watchers on Wednesday for the dreaded weigh in. I gained 4 pounds since just before Thanksgiving. I'm ok with that.

I'm trying to get back in the swing of things again with eating right and hopefully exercising a bit more.

I got a Wii Fit for christmas, and have had a blast playing with that.

It's going to be a good year, I know it. I feel hopeful about a lot of things, including being more healthy.

Cheers!

Comparison

I took photos today of my dog and I for our annual Christmas photos... and I decided to do a little comparison to last year.

To date, I have lost 27 pounds this year... Some days I can see and feel the difference, others I can't.... Looking at the comparison from last year to today is so crazy. Yeah I still have a ways to go, but wow... it feels great to know that my progress really is visible... even if it's a little here and there.

Brown sweater = December 2008 / Purple shirt = December 2009

Sick

I'm sick of being sick.

I've basically been sick since November 20th. Today is December 9th.

I have gone through 15 days total of 2 diff kinds of antibiotics, 2 bottles of robitussin DM, a few doses of Delsym, A box of sudafed, a box of mucinex dm, a maintenance inhaler, a rescue inhaler, my daily clarinex, about 10 doses of my breathing treatment/nebulizer, prescription tussinex, and prescription robitussin w/ codine.

....and I'm still coughing.

The doc is treating me for whooping cough now. They haven't said I for sure have it, but have said that most of my symptoms are the equivalent. Either way, it sounds like I have about 6 weeks of a terrible cough ahead of me.

I am feeling a little more human today, which is good. My energy is slowly getting better too.

I haven't been to weight watchers since I've been sick.... and am thinking about going today, but I'm not sure. My scale at home says I have been at about the same weight the past few weeks, I'm just not sure if i'm up for it yet.

Anyway - just thought I would update.

On a good note, I have lots of healthy food in my fridge and am eating some great things. Even when I haven't been hardcore losing, I haven't gained... so there's that, at least.

Keeping Tabs...

So the other day, I said 10 pounds by New Years...

just for those keeping tabs, I'm 3 down from that... so 7 more to go by New Years.

EASY! :)

Can I get a hellyeah!?

So I went and weighed in at weight watchers....

I lost 3 pounds this week! Back on track!

This brings my grand total to 27.2 pounds down since February. HOORAY!!

I'm so excited and re-inspired. YAY!

Back on track...

I have successfully been eating perfectly the past few days and feel so much better.

I'm going to weigh in at weight watchers in a little while. hopefully i'll have a good result. I have a clue that it's going to be good... my scale is fairly close to the weigh-in center.... if that's true then I will have officially gone down to another past 5 pound marker (overall weight loss, rewards given in 5 pound increments)... AND gone down below a huge benchmark I've been trying to get under for a long time.

Fingers Crossed... I think I can do it.

p.s. I walked 1.3 miles this morning with Charlie in about 20 minutes. Not bad! :)