Overcoming IHOP

This morning, The Girlfriend and Aunt P. wanted IHOP. Dang them. Luckily I had just given The Girlfriend the big "dang it we are GOING to be healthy" speech last night and she'd agreed to it all. So, I was able to talk them out of it - until we found there was no milk for cereal. Dang it. So I dragged myself down to the neighborhood store.

I got their lousy 2% and made myself feel special with some organic skim milk.

Her 2% went over Pops. My organic skim went over low calorie and high fiber organic granola with raisins.

She filled up a serving bowl. I measured out exactly one cup into a small bowl.

Well, she may not eat quite as healthy as I'm going to try to do, but it can't stop me. And besides, her job is more physical so she's burning way more calories than my tiny cubicle will allow me to burn.

I've been so freaking healthy today. I'm eating grapes right now when I really wanted the chocolate chunk cookies sitting on the counter. 1 day down. 7-8 years or so to go...

Baby Steps?

On Wednesday I went to the gym. The Girlfriend went too, but I was the one who packed my gym bag the night before, told her I was doing it and then even reminded her the next day. Is this a small step? Heck yea. But one I'm proud of. I knew I wouldn't be able to go the next day as I had a church meeting, but it was nice to go. As for tonight - not sure we'll hit the gym - but what I'd like to do is to go/do something active. Walk around the pond at the local park. Go dancing. Bringing some active into lifestyle - not just at the gym. And this weekend my activity goal is to buy a pump for our bike tires. I don't think I'll be able to afford to get a new bike any time soon, but I'm going to make a try at riding the one I have.

All that sounds good, right? Now here's the weird part.

Wednesday morning I hit the scale for some reason. Again, it said 230. Again, I thought it was lying. I move about my day... la la la...feeling good, doing good. Thursday morning for some reason I hit the scale again - pretty rare for me to do it 2 days in a row. 229. Whaaaaaa??? Ok, I didn't believe it at 230, so why is it that part of me wants to believe the 229 hype? I haven't seen a 20-something in awhile so while it's still ridiculously huge, it's a gigantic step IF it's true.

Since yesterday involved no gym and a few bad meals, I didn't try the scale again. I'm going to try to have a good weekend and see how it all looks. If I'm still in the 20's I could be a very happy girl. If not - death to the scale. Ok, not really. But I'll be thinking about it.

If you can't say something nice...

You know that saying, right? If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all? I think all that good upbringing has had a serious impact on my blogging. I just don't have anything nice to say.

Healthy Home? Not quite. We still haven't replaced all the light bulbs - even though the new good ones were purchased months ago. We keep saying we should. But we don't. Oh yea, and all those awesome Method products I bought have been replaced by Windex, 409 and whatever else is available at the dollar store. Cheaper yes, but I'm willing to pay more for security.

Healthy Body? Haven't been to the gym in about 2 months. I've totally gone back to fast food - though only for breakfast regularly. Last week I had terrific back pain that came in spasms and lasted for about 5 days. I still have no health insurance so it was just me, ibuprofen and a vibrating back massager to try to make it go away.

Healthier environment? The carrot was pulled away immediately after it was given. Now it's a "Maybe 1 day a week or so - but only on permission" kind of a thing. So far I've gotten that permission once. I think that was when I stopped having anything nice to say.

So where am I now? Kinda pissed. Kinda lost. I decided I needed to start with little things.

First thing I did was sign up for cake decorating classes. I know, I know - not healthy. But it makes me happy. And I can use a little happy. It's also 4 weeks of Saturdays where we have to get out of the house by 9am. I'm hoping that can help out on some weekend time management.

I AM going back to the gym. We've been focusing on the house too much for my tastes. Yes, it's nice and clean now, but I have to make me the priority again. I'm going to put the gym bag in the car tomorrow.

I need to buy some skim milk for work and keep cereal and a bowl there. I have just gotten so sick of the oatmeal I could hardly eat it - I need something new for awhile.

What else? No idea. Making this up as I go along. So, I'm sorry I didn't have too many nice things to say, but I promise I'm working to change it.

The carrot is mine!

Well, sort of.

Today is my first day of working at home. While I know that I'm expected to use today to "get some of the bugs out" I have to say I'm shocked how many bugs there are. Email auto forwarding. VOIP Phone disconnecting and reconnecting every 20 minutes. I have hope. We'll see how it all works. Hopefully the carrot won't be yanked away due to technical issues. Oh well, it's only been 11 months...

That said, the last week has been a bit of a paper whirlwind. I decided to take advantage of working from home to re-do my office. New desk. New organizer thingies. And a going through ALL the paperwork I have ever had in the office. Wow. I must have filled a standard kitchen sized trash container (which we use for recycle stuff) at least 3 times - most likely 4. Biggest offenders were junk mail (which I've officially opted out on) and envelopes. Before I kept the whole thing - now I'm keeping just the "meat" of the issue. Certainly helped to save space. But MAN was that recycle container full!

So, just because I'm keeping mental track...
Working from home - check.
Reducing my waste/recycling what I have - check.

Not a bad week all in all. The plan is to start hitting the gym next week. If we can do that I'll feel totally back on track!