Saturday Check-In

Good Afternoon and Happy Saturday!

I went for a walk today to earn a special award for National Park Day.  I needed to log a 1.6 km walk to earn my award.  It was a beautiful day with cool temps and sunshine and perfect conditions for getting in some activity.

It was a surprise to also earn my August Apple Watch Activity Challenge Award.

This took work and was by far the hardest goal I have had thus far.  It was rough.  The silver lining is that I completed it!  I logged 1,490 exercise minutes this month and some days I did extra activity to try and ensure I stayed ahead of the goal and gave myself the best chance to complete it.  I am thrilled to have completed it a few days early.

This August goal lit a fire under me and I’m committed to four more days of 30 minutes of activity so I will have completed a perfect month of closing all three Apple Watch Goals: Movement, Exercise, and Stand.  I didn’t set out to earn a perfect month but I am so glad I stayed the course and will soon close out August feeling very successful.

I had my annual appointment with the thyroid doctor.  I really love him and enjoy seeing him each year.  I keep telling him I’ll be under 200 pounds when I see him the following year and yet…it continues to elude me.  DOH!  Once again, I was not under 200 on the doctor scale.  I was really bummed out and am working to process those feeling.  It also makes me really nervous for my weigh-in on Tuesday.  I was thinking my gain from last week would drop off but now, I am just not sure.  It is frustrating and I am clinging to the positives as I wait for Tuesday.

Regardless of what the scale number says on Tuesday, that is the end of August and means I have completed 31 days of mindful activity and 11 days of earning blue dots.  I already feel successful and I still have four days to go!

Weekly WI: A Gain

Hello!  I failed to check in on Tuesday after my weekly weigh-in.  It has been go-go-go ever since.  I was ecstatic to see my gain under two pounds this week.  In honor of Pumpkin Spice Season, I picked the coffee cups.

Starbucks invited me to join them for Pumpkin Spice Season.  I feel so special…and I clearly spend a ton of money!

I am not letting it phase me and staying focused on my goal of earning blue dots each day until the end of August.  I am hoping it it temporary and will drop of next week.  I have started a weekly tracking for my countdown to Cruise Vacation.  The #1 goal is to bring that scale number back down.

Tuesday after my Virtual WW Workshop, I met two of my WW pals for a walk in the park.  I had a bite of lunch and then had to race hope to get ready for my 10-hour overtime shift.  Wednesday, I schedule my hair appointment for 9am, boy was I feeling the lack of sleep the last two days,  I attended a retirement party for one of our troopers and then took a much deserved nap.

I actually logged better and more constant sleep last week.  I would like that to also be a goal this week but so far Tuesday and Wednesday were not off to a good start.  After that, the rest of the week should be business as usual.

11 Days - 11 Blue Dots

I have been over-exercising and under-eating lately.  It is not a conscious decision and also not the way I prefer to work my program.  While I know I need to give myself more fuel, I went the opposite way this week and really did a number on points/food which has me -100+ in points this week.  ACK!  Not the way I was planning to swing this “fuel my body” pendulum.

We were supposed to get out of town for a few days.  When The Hubs and I both snagged an extra day off totaling four days in a row, I was really itching to travel somewhere.  You all now how crazy obsessive I have been (and still am) with the cruise industry as I wait another six weeks until our cruise.  It is more than that.  

Travel just makes me so happy and is the one time I can actually take a break from the stressors of life.  When I am on vacation:

• I don’t worry about getting called into work for sick coverage (although you have to be out of town to really feel like you can dodge that bullet.  If you are in town, they still find you).  
• I usually don’t track while on vacation so I can enjoy yummy food and drinks without the guilt of seeing high points.
• I get to spend quality time with The Hubs.
• I get to explore new places and fantasize about what it would be like to live there.

We ended up not going out of town which turned into a vacation from my WW program and oh so many points consumed.  UGH!!!  As I look ahead to October, I know that if I don’t bring the scale back down, I risk being over 200 pounds again.  That is a no-go in my book.  I need to hunker down, avoid social situations, and just stay focused on weight loss.  I am counting down my six working weeks until vacation and also telling myself to hang in there.  

As of Friday, and my return to work, there is 11 days left until the end of the month.  In addition to continuing to get in those exercise minutes for my Apple Watch August Activity Challenge, I am committed to earning a blue dot each day until the end of the month.  This is not the time to slack like I often do at end-of-month time.  It is the time to stay locked in on those goals, prepare healthy meals, balance temptations, and strive to get those blue dots each day.  I know success comes when I focus on those blue dots each day.

I CAN do this and I WILL do this!