Tuesday afternoon I go to my meeting and yuck it up with the ladies. Then I hit the grocery stores (yes, two, one for produce and one for everything else) and go home. My patient (and usually hungry) husband waits for me and we make dinner together with the bounty I've scored at the grocery store. After dinner I usually can't wait to blog. Some weeks I struggle finding a topic while other weeks the topic just slaps me in the face. The fact that I'm posting this on Wednesday is not because I couldn't find a topic but rather because I feel like a failure, again.
I weighed myself at home yesterday morning and my scale showed me up 5 pounds. Given that we celebrated Oktoberfest over the weekend I wasn't surprised but I was disappointed. When I got to my meeting I sort of dreaded getting on the scale because as long as I didn't weigh-in I could still hope that I'd pulled off some sort of miracle and lost weight. However, no. Though the WW scale was a little more forgiving than my scale registering
only a 1.4 pound gain. Instant disappointment and frustration set in. The other thing that set in was determination. I will NOT let this derail the work I've done. I know that I can get past this and I will.
It is 8 weeks until Thanksgiving (not to sound like the comic strip Cathy ... ack!) and our meeting topic was about setting goals we want to achieve before Thanksgiving. I was apparently not listening to the instructions because I set four goals and apparently all you had to do was set one.
- Run my 15K on Nov 5 (this will be my longest race to date and I'm super excited about it)
- Hit 200 pounds lost (might be a stretch because it's about 11 pounds)
- Stay within my daily points target
- Include more strength training (this is actually kind of fun for me yet I only do it once a week)
So, my bestie Jen and I are going to really buckle down and focus. Not necessarily go crazy because we know that won't be long term but I also know that I've tweaked the program slightly and maybe I tweaked it a little too much (see: #3). I am hoping to be able to report back better results next week and naturally have an instant topic built in!
On a completely unrelated note ... in case you missed my
last post I am hosting a give away! All you have to do is donate to my
fundraising campaign for your chance to win a SPIBelt (see the original post for more deets/photo). Every $5 will get you one entry to the raffle and since I am going to have more than one raffle you'll want to donate early so that you're entered in all of them!!
