Well, I haven't fallen off the planet! ;)) The past two weeks have been out of kilter, with the hip muscle pull and readying for our DD's visit and ritual and potluck dinner at our house. PHEW! While all well worth the effort, I am *very* happy to be back to my usual everyday quiet life routine. Despite the hip, Mika & I are getting out there and walking. A tad slower pace and less distance most days (except yesterday, which I paid for dearly with aches & pains all last night...UGH! Will go easier today...). Am enjoying the Fall weather which has finally hit. In our temperate zone, sometimes most of October until nearly Samhain/Hallowe'en remains pretty hot (high 70s or 80s), but the cold snap arrived a few days ago, and now our nights are chilly but the days pleasantly sunny without being too hot. Loving it! LOLOL! :D Hopefully we'll get a "normal" winter with a good amount of rain to end this drought... In chatting with a WW buddy at the meeting yesterday, I heard that Target has a 3 dvd set of Sansome's Walking videos for $10! So, now that we have a new dvd/vhs player, I'll chance trying to buy her videos again for those rainy days I hope we have during our winter...hopefully they'll play properly on the new machine. :P
Missed two weeks of WW meetings what with all the special doings. :O Made it back yesterday and it was good to be in "my" chair. :P I had a little too much fun over the last two weeks, and my weight is up to 159.2. :(( UGH! But, back on track and eating in most days again, and sticking to my usual WW friendly low fat diet. They have a new cookbook that looks good; may invest in that soon to get new ideas. Am getting bored and time to get some new WW recipes going. ;) If I get too bored, I'm afraid I'll revert to old unhealthy foods and ways of cooking, and too large serving sizes. Nooooo thanks! :o( I'm with WW for the long haul, and the lifestyle change. I'm gonna make it stick! ;))
Words of wisdom in email over the two weeks I missed WW meetings, from my leader, in response to my telling her I was off track a bit and gained some weight: "Call it a vegetable and move on!" LOVE IT! ROFL! :D So, called it one large two week vegetable, and am now back on track without beating myself up over it! What counts is moving on and back in the lifestyle. ;))
Blessings,
Gypsy
)O(
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
Dog fighting is cruelty, which is a human activity and a human illness.
It's not the dog's fault.
All dogs need to be evaluated as individuals."
--Tim Racer, one of BAD RAP's founders
Glad you're back! None of us are above small slip ups but what counts is that you're back on track and have will power to hang in for the long haul! So glad all your special occasions went well :)
Well, I've taken off a couple pounds of the gained weight, so that is great. Just getting back on track and keeping to my points with WW did the trick, as I knew it would. No temptations for the moment... ROFL! :D
I think it's a really important lesson to "just consider it a vegetable and move on." :P Guilt-tripping and tearing ourselves down about "failure" only increases our emotional neediness for "comfort foods," IMO. Or gives us an excuse to "hide out" and not do the exercise. If I let that bad cycle start, I'm doomed. Some of that went on in the past week and a half or so, also. <;//
Guilt is a useless emotion that only cripples me, demeans me, wipes out healthy self-esteem and confidence, and traps me in previously learned destructive behaviors and habits. Better to take positive action and improve things, then stew about stuff. ;)) Weight maintenance, as well as weight loss, is very much about also nurturing our emotional and psychological well-being as well as watching the foods we put into our body, and the physical exercise we get.
Blessings,
Gypsy
)O(
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
Dog fighting is cruelty, which is a human activity and a human illness.
It's not the dog's fault.
All dogs need to be evaluated as individuals."
--Tim Racer, one of BAD RAP's founders
