Day 71 - It's Easter, Happy Easter To You!

Today will be a tough day not to eat chocolate, that's all I have to say.  We just got done looking at our baskets and finding Easter Eggs.  This is Owen's, my grandson's, second Easter, he's now about 18 months old, so he's really excited.  My youngest daughter is 17 so not so excited, although she does like what she's gotten for Easter.

Yesterday I did ok on my diet except that I had some drinks.  I guess that's my biggest weakness although sometimes at work during the week I eat out of nervousness.  I need to end that also.  I do ok when I drink lots of water but I can still do much better.  I need to lose my sense of entitlement and just do my diet.  My foot is feeling better so I'll start taking longer walks, especially because it's warmer out.  I haven't completely blown my diet so I can still pull this out.

Next week I have my semi-annual doctor's appointment because I take blood pressure meds.  We'll see what she says about my blood work and my weight.

Day 70 - Another Busy Week

I was able to lose a bit this week but could do a lot better.  I was very busy but that really is no excuse.  I'll have to take this one day at a time and do what I can today, not worrying about tomorrow or yesterday.  I guess we'll see how it goes.

Day 64 - Vacation Is Over

We had a nice week and are back home now.  I gained just a little over a pound, which really isn't too bad.  I just need to get back into the weight loss spirit and get caught back up.  I've got so much going on now it's going to be a challenge but hopefully I can do it.  We'll see how this week goes...

Day 56 - Fell on my face

Things didn't go so well this week, I was up 4 lbs.  I will do my best while on vacation but this will also be a rough week.

It's been an interesting exercise to face all of my demons and write about them.  I'm going to have to do much better to reach my ultimate goal and hopefully I will in the weeks ahead.

Please check in with me next week... I will not be posting much, if at all, this week and will do my weigh in next Sunday.

Day 55 - Doing It Again

I'm down to the last day and again I'm going to have to do a lean day to try to make weight.  This week has been especially bad so I think I'm going to be short of my goal again...  I can blame it on anything but I should have been better and was not.  I hurt my foot but that's really no excuse.

I will weigh myself but may not post until later tomorrow.  We are on vacation for the next week (our house is being house sat) and will not be back until late Saturday the 27th.  So I will be a day late with my weight.  And, btw, I will not be posting on vacation.  But I'll try to eat good and exercise any way I can.  Thank you for understanding.

Day 52 - Up A Bit, Not Feeling Blue

I am up a bit since my weigh-in last Saturday but I'm doing ok.  I'm mostly controlling my eating but need to control my drinking, alcohol at least.  I think that would make a big difference right now.  I ate normally and drank lots of water in the afternoon, had a good dinner, and didn't have anything after dinner.  I did drink two beers though.

I guess I didn't exercise much yesterday and I probably won't today either because I kicked my living room chair last night and hurt myself pretty good.  I now have a limp and a bruise.  I may have broken my toe, not sure, but it does hurt.  It kept waking me up last night.

Day 49 - Lost One Pound For The Week

I made a good effort yesterday to keep it lean, but folded at the end of the day and had a few drinks.  I still ended up down 1 lb this week overall, although all of it was lost yesterday.  In fact, I weighed 213 or so Friday morning and 209.4 Saturday morning so that was nearly a 4 lb swing.  I need to do better all week long instead of trying to do it all in one day.  I think I said that last week... but I'll try again.  And I'll try on a daily basis rather than on a weekly basis.  I can do better.

Yesterday to get my big loss I had coffee for breakfast, a banana for lunch along with a lot of water, a cup of cereal and another banana during the afternoon, and eggs and pancakes for dinner.  I didn't have anything after dinner except for a few drinks.  I don't recommend this kind of diet for more than a day... in fact, you probably shouldn't drink alcohol at all if you do a lean day.

My major problem during the week was all of the work stress... good stress this week but stress none the less.  I still need to keep to my diet even when things are tough.  How are you doing?