Rebooting Myself

 I've never been a fan of resolutions.  It usually just ends up making me feel like a failure by March.  But I want this time to be different.  It has to be.  I am 50 years old now and back at my highest weight range.   What I'm doing: I've started logging my food in Lose It app again.  As much as I hate to do it, they've made it easier than ever.  Not only can you scan barcodes of food, you can also speak into the app to log the food.  Can't get much easier than that. 30 minutes of deliberate exercise.  My weapon of choice will be walking.  Anything else I do, will be lagniappe.  I've got to get the consistency roots to take hold, then I can concentrate on other things. Make at least one blog post per month.  This one will be a bit trickier because, frankly, I forget about it.     I'm sure I'll be adding to this eventually but for now, it's a start; albeit a small one. I'm planning on doing a start pos...

Whoops.  So I meant to post my September goals around the first of the month and well, I'm here now.   Main goals: 1.  To continue logging - so far so good.  I'm up to about a 55 day streak with logging my food! 2.  My friend, Mary and I are doing a 30 minute a day walking challenge.  - Happy to say I just finished day 11 this morning!  Still trucking along! In other news, John and I are getting married!   In 13 days! (cue panic attack).  We are doing it super low key and right now the biggest stress is cleaning the house which we are doing in phases.  I've done stressful wedding planning before and I do not want to deal with that crap.  So, together, we are getting it done and soon I will be married to the love of my life!  I cannot wait to be Mrs. A. Soon...... Mary and I have been texting each other pics each day for accountability.  One of the minutes we've walked and the other just something we've seen on ou...

Pleased to report that I'm down 4.4 lbs!   I mainly concentrated on two things this month. Moving more, and logging everything, which I'm happy to report has been checked off as successful!  I'm logging all my food into Lose It! as well as Exercise with both Fitbit and Lose It doing their magic thing and syncing together. I'm marking the beginning of this new "reboot" as being July 19th.   45.6 to go for my #50Before50 challenge.  I'm wanting to lose 50 pounds before my 50th birthday on July 12th.   My new goals for this month is to just going to continue doing what I'm doing.   In my adhd brain, I'm a little scattered because I want to actually start a challenge for myself but I think I will do that when the new month starts in a few weeks.   I think, starting next week however, I'm going to aim to hit 10k steps Monday through Friday.    Slow and steady because I know how I am, if I go balls to the wall, I will get o...

 So I just blinked and 2 years have gone by since last posting.   Life is weird. New Stuff Boyfriend is now fiancée and soon to be husband.  He is wonderful.  We are wonderful.  We have our challenges but we face them together, head on.  I am over the moon with how amazing he is.  He is the most encouraging and loving partner.  He gets me and is my person.  I know how lucky and blessed I am.   I sold my house and moved in with John so I am completely out in the country now.  It's a whole new world out here.  Also commuting sucks.  Thankfully, I do work from home twice a week.  John's father passed away in January and he went to Canada for the services.  We couldn't get pet sitting services in time for me to join him, but he did take me there in March.  We had a wonderful time visiting and meeting his family (and John's granddaughter, well, I guess mine now too!).  It was such an amazing trip a...

So things are still trucking along here.  I'm still logging my food and getting exercise in when I can.  I can definitely feel my mindset changing.  I'm more aware about what I'm eating and even if I go over my allotted calories I still log it. Still not a lot of scale movement though but I think that will come soon.  After the initial 5 lb loss, things have gone stagnant.  But that is how it always is with me.  I'll be the same for roughly 3 weeks and then bam, drop 3-4 lbs.  That was tragically accurate and incredibly frustrating when I lost the 70 pounds in 2013/2014.   Not much else going on here.  It's just hot.  So freaking hot.  Hoping with the pool to start swimming laps regularly soon so that will be a nice bump in exercise.  I am also walking more and even hit my Fitbit Steps a few days a week.  Baby steps but small progress for me will eventually snowball into big progress.  That's another reason why I...

So, its been a minute, eh?   Life is weird like that.  You blink and its a year later and so much has happened.  You get older, more content and along with that, lazy.  And you gain weight.  And by you, I mean me.   It's bad.  Really bad.   I stepped on the scale for the first time in ages a week ago.  257.8.  A new all time high. Along with the scale, I've been wearing size 3X shirts and 24W pants.  I saw everything creeping up and told myself each step, I need to reign this in and no more buying new clothes.  And well, that didn't happen. The plan: So I've been logging my food consistently for a week now through the LoseIt! app.  I've been debating with myself on if I want to pay for the premium and I think I will do so soon.  That way it will also allow for extra logging things like water and syncing up with Fitbit too.   Speaking of fitbit, I'm moving around a bit more than I have been....