I was off work yesterday to play in a golf tournament. I think I would have had almost as much fun at work We have had SO much rain the last few days and even though it didn't rain yesterday....the course was a soggy mess! You could literally hear the water running beneath your feet! You would hit the ball and along with that a clump of mud would go flying.....sometimes directly into your face! Ugh.......we all played horribly and it was just not a typical fun day. Oh well.......it was a benefit for breast cancer/prostate cancer research so its all good.
I'm playing catch up at work today since I've was off yesterday. Hard to believe its the last day of September! Where is the time going?
Oh....how's this for the start of my day? Hubby asked to drive my car today and I would drive his truck....no problem. I asked him to pull his truck out of the garage before he left for work and gave him the spare key to use and told him to just let the key stick. So.....about 45 minutes after he left, I went out to go to work. Hmmm.......no key in the ignition. Looked on the console......again, no key. I called him..."Where is the truck key?" He said, "I don't know....I don't have it!" He pauses and I hear rustling(pocket digging)...."Um....oh..yes I do" Sigh...so there I am with the truck and he has both keys in his pocket 15 miles away! I had to call someone from work to come and pick me up. Luckily I live only 2 miles from work. Hopefully that was my calamity of the day and the rest of the day will be smooth sailing!
Okay.....I pull a pair of jeans out of the drawer this morning that I haven't worn since last winter. I spend most of my time in Lands End sport knit pants, or sweat pants(at home). Elastic is my friend. I'm wearing the jeans today, but I've never been so miserable and pi$$ed off. They are so dang tight I could scream. So, did that inspire me to go workout at lunch time? Heck no! I actually went to the gym and it was crawling with people. My favorite treadmill was in use and I went into the locker room and it was full of cackling, stuck up women in various stages of undress. I turned around and walked out. I went to the Chinese buffet and had lunch instead. Boy, that'll help the jeans get looser.......yessiree! Sigh........I am beyond disgusted with myself. On a positive note.......I did my 30 minutes on the treadmill EVERY morning this week! Yeah me!
Hubby is away tonight so I have the whole evening to sit and feel sorry for myself. I swear I will do better with my eating from here on.....of course, I've sworn that many times before. The thing is.......I have been doing pretty good eating wise and walking my legs off. Putting on the jeans that are so tight just make me feel like, what's the use? All this walking and I'm not making any headway! Its just totally depressing. Plus.....its rainy and dreary which does nothing for my mood. Ok.....I'll stop bitching and moaning.
So, I decided to take the afternoon off yesterday and go to my new club and get in a round of golf......alone! Actually had a great time & played very well.....for me! I did have to play thru a couple groups since I was alone and kept catching up to them. How unnerving to have to go up on the tee box and hit your tee shot with 4 guys standing there watching! Luckily, I hit a decent shot! I'm playing in a tournament on Monday, so I wanted to get in a little more practice. Hubby and I are planning on playing Sunday, weather permitting.
Thanks to golf yesterday, I managed just about 13,000 steps on my pedometer! I rode a cart, but did a fair amount of walking too. I have been faithfully getting up in the morning and walking 30 minutes on my treadmill. I do so good during the week, but the weekends are a struggle. I like to spend too much time sitting in my recliner on the weekends!
Is it my imagination, or is EP a lot less active since the changes? I'm also upset because I can't access the website from my Ipod Touch like I used to. I used to like to pick up my Ipod several times during the evening and check in on you all and now the screens do not cooperate.
So.......our health insurance has a program(voluntary) where they assign a nurse to you who calls you periodically to see how you're doing, ask you questions about any recent blood work or problems etc. Mine is named Marie and she is just as sweet as she can be. Anyway, I had my initial phone call with her in February and I just had another with her yesterday. She is so sweet and seems really concerned about any health questions or problems you may be having. So.....during our talk yesterday, I told her that my weight is the biggest "problem" I have right now. We talked a bit about what I've been trying to do about it and then she asked me if I've ever spoken to the Dietician that they have on staff. I told her that I hadn't and she asked me if I'd like a referral. There is no cost.......it is part of our insurance plan. I figured...why not! It is all done over the phone. She's going to send me the paperwork and I'll find out a bit more. I don't know how often we'll talk or what the deal is, but I figured why not take advantage of it! I know she'll want me to keep a food record..which I hate to do. I guess I have to decide which I hate more....being fat or keeping a food log.
Hope you are all having a great week! We're halfway to the weekend!
Well, I have the exercise part of my life back on track and the eating is doing ok. Since I've been doing all this walking, I really feel tighter and thinner thru my middle and of course my legs are getting nicely muscled. The thing is, the plagued scale will not move! I'm about ready to chuck it out the bathroom window and just forget about it! I know I could get the scale to drop if I starved myself. Am I willing to do that at this stage of my life? Nope. I know I could get the scale to drop if I obsessively wrote down every morsel that passed my lips. Am I willing to do that? Nope. So there you have it. All I want is to be a normal person.....is that too much to ask? I don't want to "go on a diet" only to lose 50 lbs and then resume real life and end up right back here. Nope.......been there, done that. What I'm trying to do is "remake" myself. I want eating basically healthy and exercising to just be "what I do" & "who I am". So.....if the scale never moves, if I'm destined to weigh over 200 for the rest of my life......guess I'll have to accept it. I'm healthy & happy and my weight doesn't stop me from doing anything I want to do. Maybe this is just me........and maybe that's OK.
Wow....my step counting challenge took a beating this weekend! I only had 4600 on Saturday and 6600 yesterday! I got up this morning and hit the treadmill so I'm sure to get my 10,000 in today. I also had more than my share of Edy's slow churned lite ice cream in Peanut butter cup.....OMG.....our market had them buy 1 get one free this week(damn them!) so I bought Fudge Tracks for hubby and the PB cup for me. The devil on my shoulder keeps telling me to go stock up while they're on sale, but I'm trying to resist!
Played 9 holes of golf yesterday with hubby and had a good time. We're playing next Sunday too and then I have a tournament on Monday. Boy do I need practice! I just play the tournaments for fun......no pressure.
Hope you all have a great Monday!(Is there such a thing?)
Thank goodness I'm feeling better today. Some of the girls here in the office seem to think that there's a "bug" going around so maybe I had a touch of that? Whatever, I'm just glad to be feeling better!
Hooray for me.......I hit the treadmill for at least 30 minutes EVERY day this week!! Plus I did walking at the gym 3 days! I'm going to spend my lunch hour walking and listening to "The Notebook". I have it loaded on my Ipod. I'm just getting into it and now I can't wait to walk so I can listen some more!
Ok....EP is whacked! This morning under "my friends posts" are posts from people I never heard of? Not that I wouldn't like to get to know them, but NONE of the names were familiar to me! Yesterday under my friends posts the list was all the same post repeated over and over! LOL! Guess there are some definite bugs to be worked out! LOL!
Busy weekend for me. Company out the wazoo! That means eating out...a lot. I'm not into cooking for a crowd unless its Thanksgiving and I'm forced to! My favorite thing to make for dinner is reservations! I'm going to put a smile on my face and enjoy myself with my husband's cousins & their wives......who I have never met. I'm sure it'll be fine. They will all go to a football game tomorrow, so I'll be left to my own devices for the day...yeah! We only have 6 tickets for the game so I don't have to go! Woohoo! I'll watch it on TV while walking on my treadmill!
This has not been a good week. I've been getting my steps in, but my eating has been random bits of this and that. My tummy has not been at all happy with me and that makes me feel sluggish. I'm hoping today is a better day! I didn't do my treadmill walk this morning so I'll have to do that when I get home. I'll hit the gym today at lunch as usual.
I've been keeping up with all of you......just not much to say about me right now. My mood has been the pits. Maybe its the thought of summer being over and winter getting ready to come.......that's depressing for sure! I'm not a cold weather person. I'm also not sure my thyroid meds are what they should be. I really like my Dr, but he doesn't seem to take my thyroid problem seriously enough. My TSH was within normal levels last time it was checked, but when I told him how shocked I was when it was first tested at 9.4(normal is .3-5) he said "Eh....I've seen worse" Like it was no big deal. I'm thinking I may need to see a specialist. I know being hypothyroid makes it extremely difficult to lose weight and I'm testimony to that! There are different types of thyroid meds and I'm thinking I may need to try something different. I have an appt with my regular Dr in December....I'll talk to him about it then.
Okay...enough of my whining. I hope you are all having a fabulous week!
I'm normally not against change, but this new EP has me totally unnerved! I like to check up on you guys with my Ipod Touch in the evenings, but the new format is really not good for the Ipod Touch for some reason. Maybe I just need to keep trying!
Got all my steps in yesterday, plus some! Eating was good too. Right now I'm so hungry I could eat my own foot! I had an Activia and a bowl of Smart Start cereal for breakfast but my 30 minutes on the treadmill quickly burned that up I guess.
We have our annual company clambake tonight after work. I plan the whole thing so I'm always nervous about everything going just right. Its only for 50 people so its not that big a deal. At least the weather is cooperating. Sunny & 70 today...perfect!
Hope you all are having luck posting on the new EP. It seems much less active since the change.......which is sad.
So, I'm feeling quite blah today. I know why. Yesterday I ate all manor of junk. I did manage to get in a 35 minute walk so at least I burned off some of the damage. My stomach is not liking what I ate yesterday for sure!
Today I'm back to eating what I should and getting my exercise in. I walked 30 min on my treadmill this morning and I'm heading to the gym at lunch time. I have my lunch packed so I can't do too much damage there! Dinner tonight is a nice salad and a piece of baked salmon. If I'm starving in the evening, I bought some new cereal. Its smart start strawberry squares or something like that. I seem to usually need a little something in the evening, so I thought that would be a good thing to have. High fiber and low fat etc.
I'm trying to get used to this new layout of EP! Some of the links etc are not working too well, but I'm sure the bugs will be worked out soon. Hope you all have a great Monday!
We have had SO much rain the last few days and even though it didn't rain yesterday....the course was a soggy mess! You could literally hear the water running beneath your feet! You would hit the ball and along with that a clump of mud would go flying.....sometimes directly into your face! Ugh.......we all played horribly and it was just not a typical fun day. Oh well.......it was a benefit for breast cancer/prostate cancer research so its all good. 
I'm wearing the jeans today, but I've never been so miserable and pi$$ed off. They are so dang tight I could scream. So, did that inspire me to go workout at lunch time? Heck no! I actually went to the gym and it was crawling with people. My favorite treadmill was in use and I went into the locker room and it was full of cackling, stuck up women in various stages of undress. I turned around and walked out. I went to the Chinese buffet and had lunch instead. Boy, that'll help the jeans get looser.......yessiree! Sigh........I am beyond disgusted with myself. On a positive note.......I did my 30 minutes on the treadmill EVERY morning this week! Yeah me! 
I got up this morning and hit the treadmill so I'm sure to get my 10,000 in today. I also had more than my share of Edy's slow churned lite ice cream in Peanut butter cup.....OMG.....our market had them buy 1 get one free this week(damn them!) so I bought Fudge Tracks for hubby and the PB cup for me. The devil on my shoulder keeps telling me to go stock up while they're on sale, but I'm trying to resist! 
I'm going to put a smile on my face and enjoy myself with my husband's cousins & their wives......who I have never met. I'm sure it'll be fine. They will all go to a football game tomorrow, so I'll be left to my own devices for the day...yeah! We only have 6 tickets for the game so I don't have to go! Woohoo! I'll watch it on TV while walking on my treadmill! 