Friday, May 8, 2009

A Reveltion and Some Other Stuff...

This is going to be a long one, so if you don't have the time right now, please come back when you do.

1. I think I'm back!! Decided this morning while waiting for the coffee to brew that I have really been missing blogging and reading blogs. I think I'm all caught up on my blog-buds. I visited most and commented on most of those. I didn't scroll down too far and get all caught up on what has been going on in your lives but I did read the past 2 or 3 that I've missed. Reading all of your past posts that I've missed was just too daunting and I was afraid I'd quit before I visited everyone. I got some inspiration back that I really needed. I read so many that I don't remember who said what but they all helped me in some way to get back the control that I need.


2. When Linda and her little family came to visit weekend before last I had bought some cookies for the 4 year old. I brought them home and placed 3 each into little snack size zipper bags for her. Just wanted to do a little something extra for her to remember visiting grandmother's house. It did tickle her and she was a doll in offering to share with every one else too. At least she only wanted to share one cookie with me. I'd have loved to eat the whole big bag but I kept telling myself they were for her not me. When they left to go home I packed all the little left over snack bags up in a larger bag for her to take with her and was relieved when they were out of the house. Then came the bad surprise. A few days later while vacuuming I found one of the little snack packs under my ottoman. Oh, DARN!! I purposely hadn't bought my favorite cookies, but cookies are cookies and I had to have one. I closed the bag up and threw it on my kitchen counter and continued to vacuum. I found the bag on my counter last night and they started haunting me again. So in the trash they went and I don't mean just throwing the bag in the trash but emptying the cookies into the stinky stuff so I wouldn't fish out the bag and decide they weren't ruined. One demon gone!!


3. Exercise is hard for me. I hate to do it to begin with (and I realize I'm not the only one) and I hate it even more by myself. I haven't done anything all winter. The Wii even fizzled out after about a month. I guess I'm one of those people that sees something that I don't have and want it and am sure that I will use it all the time and realization sets in and I've found that I've wasted my money. So while this rain continues and I can't get out into the woods and walk I've got to make myself get on the Wii. How about once a week to begin with and then work it up from there? And I've been thinking that I may go out in between the rain drops and hit the driveway. Go down the steep part and up the curvy part. Think I'll take pics on the trip and show all of you. Think that will help until I can get out there where I want to and enjoy the woods?


4. I've got to get the eating under control. When I started on maintenance I quit journaling my calories. I figured I knew what to eat and how to eat. I just added a little more splurges than I did while struggling to lose this 70 pounds. Now I know that this is the wrong thing for me. I've got to get control back and the only way I can do this is to count calories again. I've got to do a little research to see what the right calorie intake is for me to maintain or even lose a little more. But I'm ready to do that now. So, Spark People, I'm coming back.


There's more I want to talk about and I've made myself some notes on them. I'll just save them for another post so that I don't exhaust you any further.


Enjoy today and look forward to tomorrow. And to coin a phrase on one of Jimmy Buffett's songs, "Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move on."

10 comments:

VRaz60 said...

Welcome back!! We all miss you when you're not blogging. I'm not know for my exercise program, either. It just isn't as much fun as I would like to have. :) But, let's keep at it, we'll have rewards down the line.

F. McButter Pants said...

Glad to see your back. I love how honest you are about hating exercise.....it made me laugh.

You'll get back on track. Your weight loss is amazing, as is your attitude!

Thanks for the post.

WWSuzi said...

Welcome back it's good to see you :)

SeaShore said...

Good luck in continuing with maintenance. As I get closer to my goal weight, I've been dreading maintenance. I feel like I haven't learned much, and I wonder if that's why my weight loss has slowed down so much lately. I need that dangling carrot in the distance for motivation!

grammy said...

Nice post. Nice to see you back. I wondered why you stopped talking about the Wie. You seemed to enjoy it so much at first. I would have had to dump the cookies into the garbage disposable. Why is that so hard? Keep on keeping on... to quote Gladis (o:

Shelley said...

I'm glad you are really back!

Interesting that you are having to rethink maintenance...this is what scares me the most - to work so hard to lose and then to keep the weight lost! Let us know what works for you!

JC said...

Glad your back but I'm so behind in blog reading I really didn't realize you were gone. Exercise is an issue for me to but hey we gotta do it. I discovered that as much trouble as planning ahead it is it is the thing I must do. I've planned, cooked, weighed food jouralized every bite these week. Hopefully tomorrows weigh in will show some improvement. Hang in there and I will to.

Vee said...

I am soooo glad you're back! Good for you. Hope you keep in touch ... missed seeing your cat avatar on comments! Vee at www.veegettinghealthy.blogspot.com

Cammy@TippyToeDiet said...

1. Yaay!
2. Good for you--more yaaaay!
3. Looks like a good plan. Kind of ease into it. I, for one, would love to see the pictures, so you'd really be doing me a favor. :)
4. Another good plan. I'm at a point where I'm logging just the non-routine. That way if I have a gain, the likely culprit should jump out at me. :)

MaryFran said...

Sounds like you have been able to really think about everything. Sometimes I think a break is good, even if it has a negative impact (weight gain). In this case, I think it is good, because you have been able to sit back and get your head wrapped around it all!

I think aiming for exercise once a week would be splendid. Would some kind of exercise competition work for you??? I'm not sure what...but maybe creating something that a bunch of us could do...and use as motivation. Let me know your thoughts...I'll organize it if anyone has ideas.