Rebooting Myself

It was a fairly uneventful week for me.  For the most part my eating was on track. I only had fast food once (Friday) but I did slack up a bit on logging my food this weekend.   I mean, I pretty much know how I eat and in the 5 or 6 years of intermittent food logging, I know what my calorie intake consists of and what it doesn't.  I did go meet my parents this morning for beignets so my day is pretty much in the crapper already, haha.  But I'm planning on a good dinner and I'll probably have a turkey wrap for lunch.  All is not quite lost. I think (and I hope) my plan this week will be to focus on getting more exercise in and more water.  It's time to start bumping those up.  Last weeks exercise was a bit lackluster.  I only managed to play tennis (albeit twice - one was a match and one was practice) but if anything playing tennis twice made me realize how horribly out of shape I am right now.  I knew it was bad, but I was slapped in the...

So this wasn't the best week for me.  I ate fast food twice because I just couldn't deal with work stress. I did, at the very least, manage to log it all.  I also didn't quite get as much exercise in as I had hoped in my mind but I did get my 3 days in this week which was my original goal.   So there is that.  Here's the rest of the recap. Exercise - Monday - I managed to walk 60 minutes.  I didn't have to go into work until 1pm that day thanks to a tropical storm and I decided to take advantage of the extra time I had and start the week off on the right foot (no pun intended).   This was 60 minutes of me walking inside my house, however.  So pace was off because of the dog wanting to play each time I turned around.  It wasn't the best effort, but it was still something. Tuesday - This is where the week started going a bit sideways at work.  We have been under tremendous pressure the last few months with getting laptops out for work...

Well the first week is out of the way! I've successfully removed all the crap from my house (and made sure I logged it along the way).  I have no more sodas on hand and I'm still mad at myself for starting that again. I had made it to 6 full years of not having one and then just a few months ago, on a whim, drank one and then it all went down hill from there.  So that stops now (again).   This week I am proud that I did get some movement in.  And that I managed to log everything.  So that right there, to me, is a tremendous first step.  Hopefully the rest will sort of snowball into place.  My plan for next week is keep doing the same. I spent a lot of this weekend doing tropical storm prep around the house and also spent a lot of nervous energy cleaning.  My house is spotless!  I'm pretty proud of that.  For the last 3 weeks, I have been back to work full time again and things got sort of off kilter having to relearn my routine....

So back in 2014-2015, when I had my first real successful lifestyle change (65 pounds down and I kept it off for roughly 2 years), I set aside a pair of pants that were designated as my "fat pants" or my pants that I would use to show my weight loss eventually.  Because I didn't quite make my all time goal back then, I never took "the picture".  You know the one where you smile proudly as you can fit your entire body in one of the pants legs?  Anyhoo, those pants sat in the back of the closet.  I would see them from time to time and even as I started gaining the weight back, I never quite had the desire to want to even take them down, much less put them back into the "rotation".  Until yesterday. I didn't get to laundry last weekend like I normally would have done and I ran out of jeans for work.  I managed to catch a glimpse of them. I thought to myself that there is no way that they would fit.  That even though I've gained all the weight back...