100 Pounds or More To Go

Nov 2

This month I am going to focus every day on being thankful - thankful that I can afford to eat healthy food. Thankful that I have the physical strength to work out.  Thankul that I belong to a gym that I love.  Thankful that I have a job. Thankful that my mom is hanging in there.  Thankful for my wonderful family. Thankful for good friends.  Thankful for the Celtics. Thankful that I live in a place that I love - both the city and my home.

Today I am thankful that I made the effort to do everything tha I wanted to at the gym - walked over in the dark. Ten minutes on the stairs. Lifting for chest and back. Swam 60 laps. Did floor abs.

I am thankful that I have learned to make delicious soup - chicken, mushrooms, barley and some veggies - yum. With crackers and cottage cheese.   The rest of my mals were my usual - oatmeal/protein, protein bar, salad, grapes, yogurt/protein, protein shake.

I am thankful that I can drink water right from the tap - I chill it but all I have to do is fill the bottle.

I'm thankful that my mom was in a good mood this weekend, and we had fun together. My brother was kind about taking me to the train on my schedule. My younger nephew was unusually cuddly and characteristically a riot.

I'm thankful the Celtics are 4-0, and I've had fun at both games I went to...and I'm looking forward to Friday's game, plus the other two this week that I will just watch.

I weighed 171.6 today.

And that's Nov. 2.

Great idea!

I'm going to try to focus on the things that are good and not the things that aren't.

Thanks for your always 'spot on' insights.

Liz

Hi SJ,

Just wanting to check in with you and make sure everything is ok.  Haven't seen you out here for a few days.  Hope all is well and you've just been busy... !

Liz

Liz,
Thanks for checking onme. I have in fact, been sick again...since I am the kind of person wh prides myself on never being sick, to be sick twice in three weeks is particularly maddening. And since I used all of my paid time off this summer, I have no sick days. Fortunately, my company is being very strict this yea about 'keep your germs at home' so they are allowing me to 'work from home' with the full reality that I am mostly sleeping and answering the occasional critical e-mail - which I would do eve if I were taking a paid sick day.

Last week I worked out on Monday and I felt really tired, but didn't think that much of it. When I was walking to the gm on Tuesday I thought thatI didn't feel great, but a lot f times I feel better once I start woring out. But Tuesday I was only on the second set of squats when DT knew I wasn't OK - we finished those, did leg press at a reduced weight, one set of lunges, and I knew I had to stop. I have never had that happen before. I still worked on Wednesday, mostly because I had plans to go out with my former manager who was in town for a few days and I realy wanted to go...which was fn but probably stupid, because I endedup flat all day Thursday. Friday I again had plans to go out with a group including my manager, and to go to the Celtics - so I went to work and held it together enough to have fun...but yesterday I did almost nothing. Today I am trying to at least act like I feel better and to eat in some normal way - because I know that for me, being sick spirals down into depression and I don't want to go there. So I've had my nails done and am watching football.

I was also held up because my PC was at the shop and the replacement one was incredibly slow - too frustrating to try to do anything not absolutely necessary. But I have my PC back - this is the maiden voyage, and it seems fixed.

The again very wierd thing is that without working out, I've lost more weight -167.6...if this keeps up, I'll be at my goal weight by Christmas without setting foot in the gym...

I am not sure what I will do next week - I feel disconnected from life when I don't work out but I don't want to be stupid either...so we'll have to see.

Sorry to use my reply to you as my 'catch=up' post...

Best wishes
SJ