I didn't make it to Curves Monday night. Instead, I drug DH to the gym with me where I walked & jogged on the treadmill for 30 minutes while he walked. I wanted to stay longer but he was ready to go. Last night, I went to Curves and then to the gym where I did the elliptical for 35 minutes. Trying to get my eating as much under control as possible this week, seeing as it is going to be all down hill next week. With my 25th birthday coming up on Saturday, relatives coming next week, and 3 different Thanksgiving meals to prepare/eat, it is going to be rough! I hope everyone is having a great week and is getting some rest in before the hectic rush of the holidays begins!

I know I haven't been here in a few days but I am still trucking. I exercised 30 minutes Tuesday-Saturday last week. I haven't exercised yet today but I plan to go to Curves tonight and maybe the gym. My eating has not been good so I am just maintaining right now.

I am preparing for a hectic Thanksgiving. My sister and her DH ( & their 2 dogs) are coming next Wednesday and staying until Sunday. My DH's cousin & her fiance are coming Wednesday and staying until Friday. Plus, I have to cook for 2 meals and prepare one whole meal by myself. It is going to be so busy.

Hope everyone is doing well and sticking with the challenge!

is a charm I hope. This is my 3rd attempt to post today and every time I have lost my post.

I did 30 minutes with the WATP dvd yesterday. Since today is holiday and I didn't have to go to work, I have already been to Curves and to the gym where I did 35 minutes on the ellyptical. I went to a new location of our gym and it was so awesome. I know other gyms may already have machines that have TVs built in but the one I ususally go to. The new branch has those machines and it was so great. I just started watching Will & Grace on Lifetime and then, before I knew it, I had done 35 minutes on the ellyptical. So awesome! I am going to start going there after Curves during the week or at least I am going to try.

Oh yeah, and the scale said 212.6 today. It is not much but I am always happy to see a new lower number on the scale.

Friday morning I got up early and did 45 minutes with the WATP dvd but I forgot to do crunches. I didn't make it to Curves Friday night but I went Saturday morning. That made 5 days of 30 minutes of exercise so week one of challenge met. Today is kind of a rest day.

Saturday morning the real estate agent came and looked over our house. He is suppose to come back either Monday or Tuesday night so we can discuss numbers. We'll see. Then we went and bought my DH a leather recliner. Merry Christmas to him! We are going to put our loveseat in storage and use the recliner instead to open up our living room. At least that is the plan. He has been wanting on forever so he finally got one. Last night, we went out to Red Lobster with our friends where I ate entirely too much of everything. They have that endless shrimp thing going and I love shrimp. Also, I hadn't eaten anything since 12 and we didn't get to Red Lobster until 8:30. It was a very bad idea to let myself get that hungry and, plus, I had a horrible headache.

Hope everyone's weekend is going well!!

Don't ask me how...but I weighed myself this morning and the scale said 213.6. I was really shocked. It is up .2 but I expected it to be up at least 2 or 3 lbs with all the laziness and bad food over the last week. I am wondering if this is somehow showing that I haven't been eating enough or maybe I wasn't really eating that far out of my calorie range.

I did get myself up this morning and do 30 minutes of my WATP dvd and 50 crunches, so that was a much better start to my day. I am hoping to be able to go to Curves tonight but me & DH are suppose to go get new blinds for the house and put them up. Hopefully, we will be able to do both.

I have been a totally lazy bum the last 8 days. No exercise. No eating right. No thought about getting it together, except guilt about not keeping it together. There have been other things going on...celebrating in-laws 30th anniversary, going to check on their pets in the evenings while they were in Biloxi, my friend had her baby, Halloween night, a Halloween party the following night, and prepping the house for a realtor to visit. Since I can't check my blog at work anymore and we have had a lot going on at home I just checked myself out of healthy living for a few days...well, several days. And I felt guilty the whole time but now I am trying to check myself back in to healthy living and blogging.

Although my eating wasn't the greatest, I did go to Curves tonight. No walking though. I miss DST. I don't like walking in the dark and I don't get home early enough to walk before it gets dark. It is dark in the morning when I leave and in the evening when I get home. It sucks. I am going to have to find a new workout routine. I could go to the other gym after I leave Curves in the evenings....I think I will have to resort to workout DVDs in the morning or evenings to make up the difference...now if I can just go dig them out of storage.