Ah...it has been a while....
....but I went on to my Google Reader and read a few of my girlfriends are back and blogging.
So I thought it was time for a check in.
How am I doing? REALLY WELL!! That is the scary part. I am not here to blog about how I am doing so badly, can't control myself, havn't exercised in god knows how long....I am actually doing WELL. I am actually proud to say that when I logged on today, I had to change my weight to a LOWER number. Who knew that this could be done?!?!? lol. I have lost 17.1 pounds since January 3rd...when I started this leg of the journey. But a majority of that has been since July. Since July I have lost almost 9 pounds. And I am proud.
So, first a catch up on my life. I finally left my job in the mortgage industry and went back to my old occupation, Legal Secretary, after a 10 year gap. I was very lucky to get a shot with this firm and I am glad to be here. I am very very happy with my new job and my new position gives me a lot of discipline with eating, actually....because I am always busy and take a very short lunch. Also, I am loving the fact that there is this thing called 'paid holidays'.... have you heard of such a thing? Well, after being self employed for 10 years, I forgot such amazing things existed. lol.
We finally sold our house and moved and that was a huge strain off of me emotionally. We had to do a short sale because we bought during the worst time and got a bad loan (which I gave to myself thinking that my income would not be changing and that we could get a better loan later)....so one thing leads to another and we were losing the house. But I am overjoyed to say that we moved 9 houses away and are in the same exact neighborhood with all of our favorite conveniences within 4 minutes walking distance. I am very happy and I really love our new home. It has a great layout and we are all settled in after moving in June. Our sale of our house closed last month. It took 3 months but we had amazing buyers and we hope that they are happy in their new home/our old home.
We had to postpone the wedding and don't have a new date yet but we know it will be next year and I am excited about it whenever it happens.
And now to the reason why we are all here...weight. Well, I am doing well in journaling my food for the most part. I am not anal/nazi/psycho about it and do it pretty regularly. But my formula has been to be very very good on the week days and get some slack on the weekends. It has been working really well for me.
Exercise? I get up Monday-Thursday and workout at 6:45am for 40 minutes on the treadmill alternating days of jogging and hill work using incline. Yes. You read it here first ladies. IN THE MORNING!! I have been that girl that always swore up and down that I would never, ever be able to get up in the morning and workout. Silly girl. That is not true!!! I find, now, that with it out of the way in the morning, my day is better, I have more energy and I can not dread having to do it when I get home because it will leave me no time to be with my family, hence sluffing it off to be with them and then regretting that I did not do it. So I am proud to day that I have been consistent with it for some time now and actually *gasp* enjoy it!! lol.
Well, that's pretty much it for now. I will try to make a better habit of checking in here and saying hi to everyone!!
Hi Angela, Donna!!, Linda..and all of you other beautiful ladies!!!
Onward and Downward!!! Onederland, here I come....
xoxoKBB