What Can I Change in Eight Weeks? Part Four

Sometimes everything seems dead and thorny
It can be hard to see past the desperate situation



Thank you for coming over to read the final part of
What I Can Change!
It might be the final, but it won't be the last!

Week Seven
Part One, What I Can Change in Eight Weeks!
Part Two, What I Can Change, Part Two
Part Three, What I Can Change, Part Three!


*January 29*
Monday
 I didn't change my exercise routine, this week. I can stick with this plan for two more weeks. Ate some sodium bombs on Sunday and Monday.

*Jan 30*
Tuesday
The snow missed us. That doesn't bother me. The best snow storm is the one that never happens.

*Jan 31*
Wednesday
I had a huge, major setback, today. I seem to have gained three pounds in two days. As you can imagine. That has made me extremely upset. It feels like two steps forward and two steps back. Feels like spinning wheels.

Now that I have had my pity party. Time to pick myself up. Dust  off the fluff and keep on moving. Can't let a small setback derail my progress. Maybe it's just water weight?

I did reach my exercise goal.
I had to give myself the You Are Amazing sticker.
I was feeling so bummed



*February 1*

Thursday

Two steps forward and two steps back. Sounds like a dance?

So I'm going to be cheesy and dance.

*Feb 2*

Friday

It was definitely water weight. I weigh myself three times a week. It only really counts on Sunday. Unless it starts to bum me out.

It's really cold outside!



*Feb 3*

Saturday

Been having a hard day. Going to use prayer and faith not food to get me through.

Started over by working on my Number 3 New Year's Resolution.

New Year's Resolution Update!



*Feb 4*

Sunday

Last weeks weight 136.9

This weeks weight 140.2

The scale isn't my enemy. Food isn't my enemy. Some types of food are full of sodium and cause water weight gain.

 

Update on Saturday. The situation that grieved me so terribly. I would have usually drowned my sorrow in a bag of cheese snacks. I didn't the situation was a miracle. Not turning to food was a miracle Thank You Lord!

Plus a what could have been a major snow storm. Ended up being a rain event. Double Thank the Lord!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Eight

*Feb 5*

Monday

The crisis on Saturday. That would have upset me so much in the past. Has fully resolved. Thank you Lord!

I can't wait until next week. When I get to change my exercise routine. I am getting so bored with my current one.

Mandie was sick all this weekend. She is much better now

It was supposed to be cold and frigid today. It really wasn't that bad.

*Feb 6*

Tuesday

Had planned to hide rocks today. Small crisis instead, but life is what happens when you've made other plans.

 

*Feb 7*

Wednesday

This song has helped my out so much! I hope that it can help you, too.

Thy Will by Hillary Scott



*Feb 8*

Thursday

Had another crisis, today. Why does life have to be one crisis after another? It's so hard.

*Feb 9*

Friday

Note to self. Don't drink coffee close to bed time. It will result in staying wide awake. Plus your skin feeling like you have the creepy crawlies. The only way to describe Creepy Crawlies is crickets running through my skin. With little Tasers tied to their legs. So annoying. 

*Feb 10*

Saturday

Had a bad cold. Couldn't exercise today. Could barely put one foot in front of the other. That is a good excuse. 

 

*Feb 11*

Sunday

Week One 142.6 (Monday 12/18/17)

Last Week 140.2

This week 139.8

Total Lost in eight Weeks? Almost 3lbs

 

Had a calzone for lunch. I used to love stuff like that. Now that I am trying to eat healthier. It wasn't all that great.

Pictures From Week One!





Pictures From Week Eight!

 

 

In Conclusion!

Lessons from the past eight weeks? I can do this! With exercise and making better food choices. Never been able to stick to a strict diet. Cut out an entire food group. (This girl eats pasta. Not Zoodles real pasta) Monitoring the triggers in my life that cause a binge. Dealing with them. Instead of binging. I can do this!

While this is the final blog of this series. It is far from the last. Hope to see you again soon!

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Ugly Truth! Week Ten! Snow! Oh No!

          So here we are. Those of us in the Northeast. Waiting on this supposed big snow storm that is supposed to come our way. Working hard on silencing my typing fingers. Planning to keep this blog positive. This isn't going to become a woe is me, I despise snow, blog. Even though I do. It is quite an exercise in self control. Who wishes that exercising self control could burn calories? Raises hand! That would make it more worthwhile.

          I predict. That we will get little to no snow. Even if it is only wishful thinking. Normally I would be so stressed about the pending snow. That it would be used as an excuse to avoid my daily exercise. So proud of myself, no excuses, exercised today. I even started a new exercise routine.

     Currently at peace with this storm. Come what may. Which is hopefully rain, but not freezing. I will be wearing my pajamas right side out. To make the snow go away. Go far, far away. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people to the north of me. They don't need this nasty stuff either.

This Week 140.7
Last Week 137.6

          This weeks weight gain brought to you by, a second burst of Winter. The weather had been gorgeous and beautiful. Then on Friday, the bottom fell out. When it is really cold outside. My brain goes into hibernation mode and I stuff my face. That is also what happened last week on my birthday. The weather was beautiful and then we got a cold snap. Which caused me to eat myself out of house and home. Really need to find a way to cope with weather changes.
          

I Still like to imagine that I am
seeing progress in the mirror.

          Isn't that the way life works though? Everything is wonderful and beautiful. Then the bottom drops out. It becomes a baron wasteland of cold and yuck. You can't see your way through. I will survive this bitter cold snap. Even though I will complain about it incessantly on Facebook and Twitter. (sorry friends and followers, LOL!)

This really is my back.
Like a busted can of biscuits

UPDATE: We received about three inches of snow from this storm. My thoughts and prayers go to those North of me. That got dumped on.

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What is Fabulous about Winter?

    This is going to be a really short blog. I couldn't answer my own question. No matter how hard I tried. Couldn't think of anything fabulous about Winter. For a minute or two, I thought, when it snows. Then I remembered how I have to shovel it. That really ruins the moment. Or when it becomes dirty and just won't melt

     Then I was thinking with anticipation. How the tulips and daffodils are poking their delicate little heads out of the ground. In anticipation of Spring. And how on the news they have just announced the dates for the Cherry Blossom Festival. And I think of my own Cherry Tree blooming in all it's pink and white glory. And that gives me hope.

     And then you walk into stores and past your knit hat. You see sandals, flip flops and swimsuits. Next to the shorts, t-shirts and sundresses. And you lift your knit hat off of your forehead, to see the wonderful spring and summer clothes. You don't dare take your knit hat off. You know that hat hair is so not fabulous. The wonderful spring apparel says, don't worry winter will soon pass. You won't have to wear seventeen layers of clothes for long.

   So thinking really hard. I figured out that what makes winter fabulous is when it is over. I cannot lie. I wanted to write a positive blog, but it rang false. I knew that my smart readers would see right through me. Not only are my friends and readers smart. They are also fabulous for reading my blog.

    That being said. I am not going to complain about Summer. I love Summer and will love it even more when the current season is a distant memory. And if I could figure out how to have Fall, Spring and Summer. Skipping Winter all together. I would sign up for that.