What Happened?



I cannot begin to tell you how happy this makes me

 

Back when I had success

Part One What I Can Change in Eight Weeks

Part Two  What I Can Change in Eight Weeks, Part Two

Part Three What I can Change in Eight Weeks, Part Three

Part Four What I Can Change in Eight Weeks, Part Four

To be honest. These four weeks (February 12- March 11) Have been an immense struggle.

Between the blog deleting itself, twice. Pictures moving around on their own. Pictures deleting all by themselves. Really cold and frigid weather. It's got me down. Weigh down, (pun intended)

 

The thought had crossed my mind more than once. Just delete the entire months blog and start all over. Like it never happened. A brand new blog on March 12th.

I'm going to keep part of this blog. Since it was promised that I would share the good, bad and ugly. Deleting blogs, because they aren't going my way is deceitful.

Here's how weeks three and four went. (February 26- March 11)

Note: I did delete Weeks One & Two. I felt that I discussed them enough in the first few paragraphs. Weeks Three and Four made those previous weeks seem redundant.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (2/26-2/28) I felt very blah. Just like I was spinning my wheels. Still exercised as planned and recorded my food. Just felt like it was getting me absolutely no where. Like I would always bounce between 139 and 140.

On Thursday (3/1) Just wasn't feeling exercise. So I told myself I had a cold and didn't. Didn't really have a cold and totally could have exercised. Friday (3/2) I went out and celebrated my birthday. Did all my exercises. Didn't record my food. Got my period today. Explains the blah feeling. Really frigid and windy.

Saturday (3/3) My real birthday! That is where all was lost and the spiraling into the abyss occurred. My period was doing a number on me. Although it explains my blah feelings and the bloat. Sunday (3/4) I just felt so bloated and blah. Didn't even weigh. Knew that it wouldn't be good.

My birthday cake. No way am I going to turn down cake!

My Birthday blog from last year. In the same boat. Really must get control of this.
Birthday Blog! 2017

Monday and Tuesday (3/5&6) Continued in the spiral. At least I exercised on Monday. If only for thirty minutes. (something is better than nothing) No exercise on Tuesday. Didn't track my food at all.

Wednesday (3/7) Started exercising again. Although deciding this week that I would take it easy. Wednesday through Saturday. I would do only thirty minutes on the stationary bicycle. Then revisit my exercise plan on Monday. Make some changes. That I believe that I can maintain.

 

This is always the first daffodil to bloom.

It gives me hope!

Thursday and Friday (3/8&9) Recommitted to the healthy lifestyle. By exercising and recording my food again. Also started a new project.

Have I bitten off more than I can chew?
What on earth could these possibly become?

You will have to read the blog in two weeks to find out.






 Saturday and Sunday (3/10 & 11) Feeling much better. Even today, (3/10) this blog has been giving me fits. Trying to delete itself. Moving around pictures. Sometimes I think that it just doesn't want to be published. Maybe it is a sign?

 

Sundays are usually very hard. For some reason eating too much on Sunday is par for the course. (This Sunday, no different) I was a little nervous about weighing. I knew that I had gained.

Weight 3/11 140.9

Not surprised

 

I am glad that I didn't delete this blog. It just goes to show. That no matter how hard you fall. Or how much you stray off course. You can get back on course. It isn't easy. It is never easy, but it's well worth it! As Dorie said in Finding Nemo, Just Keep Swimming!

 

Something that I love to do

Especially when I am feeling blah

 

 

 



 

     To make a long blog even longer. The struggle continued for almost another month. Gained the weight back.  Lost it and gained it lost it and gained it. Didn't gain the inches back! Could still wear the smaller Easter dress. On April 3rd sitting here writing the addition this blog. It is cloudy, damp and very cold.

 

     I really don't like this weather. Despise isn't a strong enough word. It makes me feel like my head and shoulders are stuck in a vise. The  throbbing pain is so awful. It can even make me cry. Then just feeling of being out of sorts. Makes me want to eat everything in sight. Ate just about everything in sight yesterday.

 

     In January and February you expect this sort of weather. March and April it is just so hard to take. The feeling down and the pain. There is only so much ibuprofen one can take.

 

   My feeling is that I let you all down. I wasn't successful. So I am going to take a break from blogging for a month or two. To figure things out.

 

I should change the title of this blog to. How to undo all the progress you made in eight weeks.

 

 

 

I really didn't want to publish this blog. I was going to delete it and come back in eight weeks. The struggle is part of the journey though. As is being transparent.

 

 

Thank you for reading! 

 

 

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New Year's Resolutions

Funny story about this purse. Read below to find out

          It's that time of year again! The time that I make my New Year's Resolutions. Except for the bitter cold that usually accompanies January. I love that a brand new year. It equals a blank slate to start all over.

Here are my New Year's Resolutions!

1. Make God a priority and less of an afterthought. (Should have
    been first in the first place)

2. Continue what I have been doing with diet and exercise.
    Come back in six weeks to read my blog about in mid
       February!

3. Work on organizing my stuff. Take one room item and
     organize it. That is also something that I have been
     working on in the last part of 2017.

The funny story that goes with that purse pictured above.

I bought that two years ago, from Zulily. Or some such website.

I bought two. A larger black one for the fall. Had every intention to carry the above pictured one in the spring.

Spring rolls around and I cannot find it anywhere. Searching high and low. So, two years later. (Yes I am sloppy and disorganized)

I really buckle down and work on getting organized.

That purse has been in the back of my mind ever since it was lost.

On the very day. I start organizing. I'm thinking about it. Thinking about places it could possibly be.

I walk in my closet to start. Then pause and look down. What is slightly poking out of a reusable grocery bag?

That Danny Bear bag! It has been there the entire time. Just shook my head. I cannot believe it myself.

          I am not a slob. Not by any means. There are no unused food dishes in my bedroom. Those get taken down to the kitchen right away. I am just messy and disorganized.

4. More joy and less negativity. You have no idea how hard this is

5. Less negativity about the people around me. Including celebrities
    and fauxlebrities. You have no idea how hard this is.

6. Less negativity about the people in my past. I am going to try
    and live by the phrase. If you don't have anything nice to say.
    come sit by me. Don't say anything at all. By you, I mean me.

7. Read more and I don't mean Facebook. I mean real books


8. I'm also going to get my nose pierced. Well with all self
    reflection. I need to do something fun.
    (hmmmm Second thoughts on the nose piercing. If that is the
      only resolution I break. I am doing good)

Check back in eight weeks and see if any of the resolutions have been kept! I guess that would be around the first of March
(Change that to mid March)
 

Happy New Year!
WOW! 2018!

~This is just my .02 cents. Not sure that it is even worth that much.~