I can’t believe only 36 hours has passed since I last posted…it feels like so much has happened!

The cold/flu bug that has been going around finally caught up to me yesterday.  After a valiant 4-hour effort, I had to take a half day at work and come home.  In the following 16 hours that I spent on the couch, drifting in and out of sleep, I had A LOT of time to think.  Mostly I thought about how miserable I felt, and it wasn’t a far leap to start thinking about how, honestly, I’ve felt miserable for the past year.  I REALLY stepped away from a healthy lifestyle:  little exercise+poor eating choices=BLECH.

Then, when I went to weight myself this morning (a day late), my scale wouldn’t turn on.  It’s digital, and the battery finally gave out.  I wasn’t even upset, because I KNEW I didn’t lose any weight because I STILL haven’t been making good choices.  BLAH.

SO – I decided I need to do what I know works for me – Weight Watchers meetings.  I need the accountability of the weekly weigh in.  So here I am, back home, all physically better after the 24 hour flu, and all mentally better after my first Weight Watchers meeting.  The weigh in was quite enlightning.  I discovered that my scale at home was reading about 5 lbs lighter.  Either that or I gained 7 lbs since last week.  With the new WW weight and goal in hand, I’m going to revise my p2g goal from 30 to 40 lbs.  Yesterday, that extra 10 lbs would have crushed me.  Today – not a chance.  I’m ready.

Well, remember in my previous post (a long time ago) I talked about joining the Y. That day has arrived, My family joined yesterday. I have been excited for this day to come. I’ve used not much exercise as an excuse for not losing any more lbs. Well I can’t do that anymore. Its time to put up or shut up. Now I’m kind of worried, what if I fail, what if I don’t make time to go, What if I fall off the treadmill and can never show my face there again, what if I exercise my butt off (that would be nice) and still eat chocolate and never lose another lb. I’ve been committed to the long haul, but now I wonder if I’ll make it. Thanks for listening to my hysteria–and I know Leanne will help keep me in line.(no pressure Leanne) I’ll just start with today. I’m going to the Y tonight and exercise with my husband. I’ll keep you posted about tomorrow, and I’ll be sure to let you know if I fall off the treadmill! 48 p2go.

Eighty Four days and Fifteen pounds to go!

Mr. Flinger joined me today in a “Body for Life” challenge. We’re doing this for our marriage, our bodies, our mental health. We’re both under a lot of stress right now at work and home and we decided to make our health and family a priority. I’ve talked about this a little before, but I truly believe how I feel mentally is directly related to how I feel physically and I’m not doing myself any favors with scones (I gave them up, Leanne!)

So, here’s to 84 days left, 15 pounds to go before we take on the procreating a new baby, new job, new house.

Also posted on my blog so apologies to those of you that may be seeing this twice….

Yay me! Went to my Weightwatchers WI this morning, and came out slightly pleased with my self.

Some of you may remember that I went through a two week detox diet a couple of weeks ago and really liked how it made me feel. I wasn’t sure where to go from there. Weight Watchers just wasn’t speaking for anymore, as much as I recommend that program and know it works. I didn’t have enough time to do yoga and go to the meetings and I know from experience that it works much better when you go to meetings.

I think Yoga got me interested in the detoxing and then had me craving something really healthy and zen-like.

I considered vegetarian, but know I can’t pull that off 100%. I thought about South Beach, but it didn’t look right. Then I checked out the Sonoma Diet which is new and a friend recommended. It looks so healthy and interesting. I’m going to give it a whirl, starting tommorow just because I need something exciting that matches my yoga. I signed up online, an it’s really well organized. You can select a vegetarian menu if you like and they also have menus and shopping lists.

Wish me luck.