So far so good with the workout routine. So far I've racked up 12 AP's in 3 days, plus 2 days of arm exercises. It feels so good!
I'm going out with my sister and my dad tomorrow for Mexican food, one of my many downfalls. I'm planning on chewing gum before the entree arrives so that I won't eat the chips. It sure worked well today during our staff meeting when they served chips and salsa! Then for the entree I will order just a small plate of rice and beans since that is my favorite part of going out to Mexican food. Hopefully that plan will prevent me from going too far.
We also have a dinner to go to with my parents and Mike's parents on Saturday. I have no idea what Mike's parents have planned for dinner so I'm trying to keep my flex points "flexible" just in case.
Today it took me 1 1/2 hours to get to work because of really bad traffic. You know how one bad thing can make your whole day suck? Yeah. Miss Leanne was damn pissy by the time she stepped into her classroom.
I felt better at the end of the day because I got some great compliments at work, though. First I was recognized at our staff meeting as one of the top five WASL proctors at our school this year. There are like 50 teachers, so that was nice. Then I directed a parent meeting after that and one of our most intimidating, hard-ass teachers took his time to personally compliment me on how direct I was and how well I kept the meeting flowing. Often these types of meetings go on for an hour because people always want to "chit chat" about the same things forever and ever without actually getting anywhere.
FINALLY. I exercised for 45 MINUTES and even worked on MY ARMS FOR 15 MINUTES. Geez, I was worried about myself. I was scared that I would just stop and not get back to it. I know it's just one day but at least it's something and it keeps me hopeful. I just have to keep in mind that there's a wedding dress to think about.
The scary truth is that, before today, I hadn't done any activity at all since April 15th and hadn't been in the workout routine since March. That's almost a whole month unaccounted for. Time to get back to it! I will do this!!!
On another note, I was in a bad mood yesterday so I took myself shopping at the mall. It was beautiful outside! So naturally I choose to spend all my time inside trying on clothes.
There were a couple gems I picked up at the Macy's petite section. Yay! There's usually not much there that I like or that even fit.
I also found that I have a favorite brand of socks. Isn't that weird? They're a Macy's brand called Hue. They are great socks (the long kind), last a long time and come in nice colors.
Then there was Express. I must have spent two hours in there! The little dressing room was so full my brain was overwhelmed with what to try on first. A million times they came up to me and asked if I was finding my size while I was picking out items for the dressing room. The answer was no half the time. I asked an employee there if they had any size 0's in a certain style. She gave me a doubtful look and said, "Oh, that's our most popular size..." Are you serious? And when I inquired at the Victoria's Secret why they were always out of 34B's they said it was one of their most popular sizes.
I did manage to walk out of the mall with some great pants, shirts, and Very Sexy Victoria's Secret bras. This morning it just felt amazing to wear the new clothes. It's like a "shopping high".
I keep meaning to blog but things are always coming up. I was going to say on Friday that the scale has me down to 111.6 pounds but I found a way to defy that by going out to Chipotle and getting a big fat burrito! At that point I had used up all of my flex points. Then we had a wedding last night and I didn't try very hard to be good at the reception. The positive thing is that we got out of there before the cake was cut.
That's about it. I am going to see if I can have a better week this week and save all my flex points for Saturday when we go out to eat with our parents.
Hope everyone's having a good week so far. Nothing too special to report here. I'm staying OP and watching the scale carefully in hopes that it will go down! I'm not as keen on this weight loss thing as I thought.
I still haven't exercised at all. I'm curious to see if I can still lose a few pounds without the workout and then jolt my metabolism when I begin working out again.
As for this cold it has consumed all the energy in my body. Yesterday I came home and went right to bed. Today I came home with energy so I'm hoping that means I'm starting to finally get over this.
WASL ends tomorrow!!! This is good news because our poor children are worn out from it. I did like that I got to work on my own things for the two hours they were testing, though.
Happy Monday! Things are getting better these days. I slept most of the weekend away and cancelled all plans. I am functional today but the cold is still there. As long as I can function at work that's the important part. WASL testing continues tomorrow and I have to be there to proctor it for the next 3 days.
My mom is doing better. They didn't solve the problem because they couldn't find it but she is at home and has the week off.
My engagement ring fits just fine and I've been wearing it for 3 days now. No problems! I must have been unusually poofy on Friday.
I'm currently applying for jobs in the cities near me because I'm sick of driving an hour to work. We were supposed to move way north of here but we may just end up moving within 10 miles now. I still want to be a Read Right teacher so I am hoping I might be able to land a job in a nearby district that has the program. If it happens I could end up being a high school teacher. The horrors! I look like a high-schooler so that would be interesting.
I apologize ahead of time for the upcoming negativity, but there's a lot of stuff going on and I'm ready for it all to be done with.
My mom didn't sub for me on Friday because she ended up in the hospital Thursday night. I think overall she will be fine and that the situation isn't too serious. She started bleeding due to possible complications from a colonoscopy she had last week. They've been keeping her at the hospital but hopefully they will solve the issue and she'll be home tomorrow. I'm worried about her but am glad that she's not taking off for Texas like she had planned tomorrow. She gets the next week off.
My sister has bronchitis, so something's wrong with all of us ladies in the family. Dad is just fine. Lucky him!
I've been sleeping a lot and have been too drained to use my brain. That's why I haven't been commenting a whole lot. I will try to check up on everyone today. Mike is at his sister-in-law's baby shower right now and might be at a keggar for the rest of the evening so I've got the day to myself.
We got my engagement ring back from being resized and it ended up being too small! The 6 1/2 was way too big so I went to the jeweler and found out I was a 5 1/2. Now the 5 1/2 is too small. Grrr... But that was yesterday. Today the ring fits just fine, a bit snug but not like yesterday. Yesterday I was lucky to get it over my knuckle, and to take it off I had to use soap and water. I'm afraid to get it resized to a 6 because it might be too loose. Since it fits today I am hoping it will continue to fit because I am cold most of the time. Yesterday I was super-hot and poofy. But I am rambling.
My students were getting on my case saying I should have stayed home today and need to stay home tomorrow. It keeps getting worse and worse. When I arrived at school this morning I felt like I had been through a whole schoolday and was completely exhausted. I only came to school because I'm administering the WASL and had a parent meeting at 2pm. I had another parent meeting tomorrow but I cancelled it. The greatest part is that my mom is subbing for me. She is certified in the program so the kids don't have to deal with anything out of the ordinary.
It seems to me there are a lot of complications with going off-plan for more than a day or two. Now I am no longer motvated to exercise. We did the MS Walk on Sunday and walked 4 miles, but it took us 2 hours at a very leisurely pace. Before that I exercised on Monday and Tuesday of last week.
I can't seem to get my butt out of this chair! I wanted to exercise today but now I'm using illness as an excuse. Yes, my nose is snottier than the snotnosed kids I teach and it's giving me hell, but I could just take some Afrin. That would make it better temporarily and I could go workout. Why won't I? I should be out there on that elliptical trainer, right? Right.
Woohoo! Look at that scale tipping up! It's ok, really. The 5 pound gain from vacation looks a lot better than a week ago. A week ago my scale read over 123 pounds. All the water weight from PMS/TOM/Splurging is gone now. Now I have 5 pounds to lose and it's ok with me. I need this challenge to keep myself entertained! Maintenance just isn't interesting so it's time to get back into weight-loss mode.
Gosh, now I feel bad and wonder if I did the wrong thing. No, it can't be the wrong thing. I chose my sister to be my maid of honor over my best friend. The reason being that my sister is also like a best friend to me. We're extremely close. I hang out with her more often than I do my own friends, we talk on the phone the most and she's my sister. Kat is my best friend but we aren't as close anymore and rarely see each other. That shouldn't discredit our friendship (we've been best buds since 3rd grade, holy crap) but I think overall my sister would be the best choice. I'm feeling bad and awkward that Kat expected to be the maid of honor and I had to tell her it's going to Malia.
Am I wrong on this one? It's such a close call but it feels wrong to not have my sister be the maid of honor under these circumstances.
I haven't been exercising, either. Too much stress this week. I came home this afternoon and was stressed about the prospect of exercising so I went straight to the bag of pistachios Mike brought home 2 days ago. Then I just got off the phone with Kat after telling her she wasn't going to be my maid of honor and once again went straight to the pistachios. Stress eating is a bummer.
The condo won't work out, either. We discovered just how little money we make in comparison to the buyer's market in the Seattle area. Cotinuing to rent and save up money makes more sense at this point in our lives. Another bummer.
