Wow…Five and a half weeks since my last update.
Kind of makes me wish that I had better news…
I’m still down – I haven’t gained anything – But I haven’t really lost
anything and have lost a lot of the muscle mass. I was sick for a while this week, was lazy
another week a couple weeks ago, and have just not been doing well on the
weight-loss journey.
We have our treadmill now, we have our weight bench now. I didn’t know if I had that at the last
update…
My sisters wedding was horrible – According to my scale at home, I gained 8
pounds! Turns out I only gained 3 ½ but
it was still bad. Then I lost that…Then
last weekend I was at the Muskegon Irish Music Festival and I gained 2 ½
pounds.
I’ve been sick most of this and just tired in general so I haven’t done a
damn thing. Today I’m feeling much
better (started yesterday feeling better but wanted to be lazy another day) but
now I’ve pulled a muscle in my neck. I
think I’m going to take the rest of the week off and start back up again this
week.
On the plus side, I’ve been sticking with the diet pretty well – I’ve been
over on my calories a bit this week because I’ve been eating MetRx Meal Bars
and those are higher in calories and fat, but I’ve stayed under 2,000. Just higher in points because I’ve had a lot
more fat and because my breakfast has been twice the calories I’m used to.
What I’m most upset about is still that I can’t do Power 90. Jeff (bless him) helped me come up with a
workout routine that incorporates part of Power 90’s Sculpt and also using the
treadmill – I was so proud because I did it for a week and did great! I walked a mile every day, I lost six pounds,
I was doing good…But I never got back into the weights – Only did those two
days (which is what was scheduled) but now I’ve been off of them another week.
I really need to just kick myself in the ass and do it, but I’m losing
motivation. I am sleeping better – I get
to bed no later than 9:30pm most nights – But I’m just exhausted.
In my mind, I know that exercise will help that, but I’m struggling with
motivation. Big time. I’m not falling into bad habits just yet
because I’m sticking with the diet for the most part (other than Irish
Festivals and weddings) but I’m struggling.
Thankfully, we’ve only got one more faire (Holly Ren Faire) to go to and
that’s local so we’ll be able to bring lots of food with us.
Other than that, everything is mostly okay – Appointment with surgeon
coming up and I’m nervous about that but it’ll be okay. I do have an appointment with the asthma
doctor and I was hoping to really be in shape, but it’s not looking like I’ll
be taken off meds – I haven’t been doing it well enough lately and of all the
doctors, he’ll be the one that will notice the most.
I’m stressed out – Jeff quit his job (but I’m thankful he did) because it
was horrible, but now I’m panicking about money and all the financial
responsibility lies on me. On top of it,
we’re coming up on the end of our lease in a month and rent went up by
$50. Sucks.
It’ll be okay and I know I’ll be less stressed if I get back with
exercising. We’ll see how that goes…
Until next time…
