Jogging in Place

162.5 last Friday....that's "down" 0.4 and yet it's still not a new number.

Over 4 months of this back and forth, 19 weeks stuck in this place.  I've tried to eat differently, I've tried to count, I"ve tried to make a huge goal....trying isn't working.  It's time to commit!  Time to stop jogging in place and go somewhere.  Plateau, yes unearned - not exactly.  Come on Tiffany, get it together - lets see that scale move this week! 

How is that for some self motivation?

Learning not to stress over stress.

It's been a busy few weeks in my life and it's only going to get busier when the calendar flips to August, but more on that in another post. My scale has gone up a little over 1 pound lately (and some days it looks more like 2) but I'm not stressing - I can't!

* I haven't been counting calories (well not on paper)
* I haven't worked out as much as i was (which in fact was overdoing it)
* I've got passions and commitments right now that are actually more important to me than that 2 pounds
* I'm often leaving my house not to return until at least 12 hours later and kissing my kids is more important right now than my treadmill!

So, I'm vowing not to stress over the stress, because we all know - that just adds more weight!  So I'll keep trucking along using the moderation and do what I can do plan and well - I'm sure I'll find a way to loose these 2 pounds!

Weigh in re-cap and a whining review.

So I waited a day this week to record my weigh in.  The number on the scale was up yesterday, and I know why and I didn't want to stress myself - so I waited until today.  It's only a loss of .2 but hey it's a loss!

Whining, why am I whining today you ask?  Because I'm SORE!  Have you heard of the Ins.anity (no .) work out program?  Well a friend loaned me the DVD's, so I took the fit test..... OMG!!!!  If you are looking for something to kick your behind, do this, but if you die and/or are sore for a month....don't come blame me!  You have been warned!  I feel muscles I didn't know I had, and that was just the fit test!  This is what I would consider high impact and the DVD set is VERY expensive, so if you know someone who will let you try it great, if not you better be committed to the program!

Random

Titles - sometimes they are hard!  So random....yep, cause that's what this post is going to be.

#1 - Today's weight in....yep, that lovely scale still says 163.4.  No, I don't want to talk about it.  Yes, I have made my own reservation for a padded room with a nice view. :)

#2 - I have a few random posts floating around in my head, and on post-its on my desk that I need to get to writing.

#3 - I've seen a little bit of traffic on my stats page, and still no one wants to follow me....hmmmm, maybe I should write more posts.

#4 - I need a good word for random, preferably one that would start with an M, T, W or F so it could be a title for small posts on a certain day of the week.  Any ideas?

#5 - Having thin, fine hair in Minnesota summer is NOT a good thing.  Just wait til winter, I'll complain about it then too. 

#6 - The bloggy world keeps sucking me in furtherr and further, I really need to figure out how to make money reading and writing blogs all day! 

# 7 Happy 4th of July Weekend!  I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend, and takes some time to remember what this is all about.  Thank you to all of our service men and women for continuing to fight for our freedom.  Unless you know me personally, you wouldn't know that I was a wanna be solider that turned into a broken solider and was sent home.  At the time I was also an Early Childhood Teacher and I had a struggle one day with seeing myself in uniform and carrying a weapon until I got a dose of perspective from the Chaplin.  He told me, "PVT. Lewis, all you need to remember is that you aren't a scary person to these children you are the person who is serving so that they can grow up in a free country".  That was a life changing comment for me, I had never thought about what it would be like to live in a country where children would not have freedom. 

Why I need a padded room (Today)

Technically 3 days shy of a month, but per the calendar it's 5 weeks....FIVE. WEEKS. THIS NUMBER HAS. BEEN. ON. THE. SCALE!!! 

Actually as frustrated as I am with seeing this number AGAIN, and having to record my second (sniff, sniff...yea, get over it!) gain recorded on this blog I'm really doing quite OK with it.  The fact that the scale is stuck at this number (or at least in the neighborhood) tells me a few things:

 1. I haven't been working out - that might help!
2. I quit WW online.
3. I'm not doing so great at counting calories
4. I've been living....and I'm enjoying it....and I'm not gaining (really)

I've also realized that my body just likes this weight.  Seems to me my body is saying...listen here, I've been working really hard and I got you to this freaking number you were obsessing over, so now that we are here and you decided not to keep pushing yourself, well - I'm taking a break sitting here on the couch watching TV....so quit complaining and shut up because I can't hear!

Oh, and yesterday  - for the record the scale said 162.3.....DAMN scale!

Careful what you wish for...

A few months ago when I set my first goal for 163, i kept longing to see that number on the scale, well now - i'm sick of it!  Then again I can't really complain, as my level headed side keeps reminding me "the overall trend is down, that's what counts".
 I can also play my usual mind games and tell myself :
*Well it was TOM this week (sorry TMI?)
*This was your first week off of WW
*You let yourself get stressed out this week more than once, and had the headaches and a migrane to prove it.

Actually, I don't know that those are mind games, it's truth - it means that life happens and sometimes it just doesn't work out just the way I would like.  Moving on - new week, new game. 

The day the scale LIED!

So, being the scale addict that I am  (i know, i know), I decided to get on the scale again at the end of the day Friday....only guess what - this time it read 162.5!!!  HUH?  WHAT?  How can that be?  I spent my day eating my healthy eats, drinking copious amounts of water and I even had a mongo chocolate chip cookie at my son's school for parent day....hmmmmm

So the question is did the scale lie in the morning or in the afternoon?  Did I really go up 0.2 or did I actually fly by my first WW goal of 163?  Well, for the rest of the weekend the scale hovered a little higher but that's pretty typical.  So I guess I've just decided not to obsess (yeah, that's a first) and go with the flow.  Let's just see what that nasty scale says this Friday.  Either way I guess I could chalk it up to knowing that I'm still moving in the right direction. 

So once again - onward and upward....errrr...downward I mean.  :)

Yo-Yo-ing....Not so fun!

Well, another week of +0.2.....hmmmmmm.
In all honesty, this weigh in is better than I thought it would be.  It's only 0.2 pounds and I had a BAD week.  My eats over the weekend were OUT. OF. CONTROL.  My exercise was NON- EXISTENT, and my frame of mind was a little off. 

BUT.....this is a new day, a new week and time to get on track again - I can do it!  I WILL DO IT!