March madness

Last time I told you about my trip and how food is such a problem and temptation while I'm gone.  I forgot to mention before the trip I had worked out a few of the days before leaving.  I did the elliptical and weight machines.  Well, when I was on my feet all day and loading and unloading stuff I was having horrible pain in my butt/leg/calf.  I'm guessing it was sciatica.  It was horrible.  It would come and go.  Sometimes I felt like I was having contractions.  The pain would start coming and then get really bad and then lighten up.  Felt like a combination of sciatica and shin splints.  So, this week I have been afraid to work out.  Could say I found a new excuse.  Anyway, has anyone had any experience with sciatica?  Should I push myself through it or wait until I don't feel it?  

It feels so good to be back home having my Visalus every day again.  Most the time when we are on the road we still try to do our shakes at least once a day.  This time we didn't get any shakes in and I really miss my shakes when I don't have them.  The shakes also keep my heartburn gone so needless to say I didn't enjoy the heartburn either.

I leave again next Wednesday so my challenge will be to do even better with food selection while on the road and make sure I get my shake a day in.

Congrats to the winners of our first month and good luck everyone on month 2!!

travel trials

Hi girls!  Dont have time to say much, im in the denver airport waiting to catch a plane home.  What a trip.  Went to Dallas Texas and to make a connecting flight we had 6 min to get to the other end of the airport.  Yeah we made it but our luggage didnt so we had to wearour same clothes for 2 days and we were working setting up a convention booth and sweat like pigs.  Not fun.  When we are doing a convention show we usually have breakfasf around 6am and dinner around 10pm with a few almonds in between so we are starving and have a hard time choosing healthy food at a nice resturant.  I did great with my choice one night and chose salmon and veggies.  The only bad part was my boss ordering a blooming onion AND parmasan fries to start.  She makes it so hard.  Good luck this week.  Time to board!

We NEED Sun!!

Hi girls!  When reading the blogs I see a familiar story on most of them.  WE NEED SOME SUN
My Dr. recommended supplementing with Vitamin D.  It's the new wonder vitamin you know.  It can really make a difference.  Just my 2 cents.  :)

Today has been a good day except Marty took my car to work and I hate to drive his truck, especially when it's raining, and I let that deter my plans for the gym.  Gosh I have a lot of voices either talking me into things or talking me out of things.  haha  Not really.  I'm just a little weak but working on it.  I will drive the truck next time.  

M&M's ugggggg

I don't know how I missed blogging for more than a week.  Time sure flies.  I think I best pick a day of the week and blog on that day.  I haven't read any blogs lately either.  So, I think a good day of the week is probably a Sunday for me even though today is Monday. :)  I'm really not very good at this blogging stuff.  I read everyone else's and think WOW wish I could express myself like that.

Well, the bad news is I'm still struggling with my mind talk keeping me from getting motivated.  I tend to beat myself up all the time.  For some reason I don't want to lose weight or stay on track or get some exercise because every time I set a goal or have a plan I go out of my way to sabotage myself and make sure I fail.  It's like if I self destruct I'm not so accountable.  I think I'm afraid if I eat right and exercise I still won't lose weight and I won't have an excuse.  I don't have the confidence that I can keep it up so I might as well give it up right away.  So, I need to talk nice to myself and boost my own moral because I am the one cutting me down.

The good news is I went to the Dr today for my annual physical and he was very happy about my weight loss.  I was down 10 lbs from May even though I weighed more than I thought I should.  It was in the middle of the day with my clothes on..... He gave me lots of kudos!!  He was happy with all my lab results so I'm doing something right.

I'm struggling BUT I'm making progress in the right direction so that makes me HAPPY!

This week I need to get back into the Gym.  I started off gung howe and then the weather turned really cold and started raining and (excuses) I didn't want to leave my house.  It's kinda funny.  When you get to my age, over 60, you get this mind set that you can do anything you want because you have paid your dues.  That thinking has been disastrous for me.     Pretty much makes me think I can eat what I want, sit and watch TV or play computer games all day and that is ok.  NOT  So time to get this lazy butt out of my chair.

My husband eats a lot of M&M's (daily).  They are in our pantry all the time.  I can go ages without touching them and then all of a sudden I can't leave them alone.  That is where I am at right now so I plan on making him move them to some place a little less convenient.

So my plan for the week is to MOVE and leave the M&M's alone!!

Have a great week ladies.  Now I'm off to read some blogs.

Oopps! Starting over!

Well I guess I'm off to a rocky start.  Had to go out of town and didn't do anything like I had planned.  I didn't log my food intake, my exercise, and didn't ear right.  I am disappointed on how I behaved while out of town.  I went to a crafting retreat in San Jose for 3 days and all we did was craft, eat, craft, eat, play bingo for prizes, eat, craft, eat.  We did a little bit of sleeping occasionally.  What a bunch of crazy ladies.  I'm not really one to do any crafting so I think I did more eating than if I were doing something I was really really into.   I must admit though I have a real problem of what I eat when I am away from home. So, I'm gonna start all over and catch up with all you beautiful amazing girls.  Your blogs are so cool and interesting. Keep up the good job.  I'm right behind you...  :)

The 2014 Challenge Begins!!

Here we are a new year and a new challenge.  New - not so much.  Seems this has been a recurring theme.  I am happy to say though it has been up and down and very slow, I am making progress.  I have been doing my blog off and on for several years.  Having it written down shows me that I have made progress.  So here goes.

I am excited to start this new challenge with a group of great women.  The ones I don't know yet I'm looking forward to learning a lot about you and your inner thoughts and feelings.  This is the place to let it all out and hopefully get the support we all need.  So here we go ladies!!  

Of course, my daughter Annie is the most beautiful, wonderful, compassionate, loving, and awesome human being and will help all of us in reaching new heights.  She is my biggest cheer leader and motivator.   Love you baby!!!!

To start this challenge I would like to set a goal for my first month.  I plan on being diligent in logging my food intake.  I really hate keeping track of everything so this is going to be difficult.  I will be using My Fitness Pal for this process.  Along with tracking my food intake I plan on tracking my activity too.  Hopefully I have some activity to track.  I have no problem in finding food to track. :)

I think I will be more specific next week.  I will feel things out this week and decide how much food and activity I want to maintain.  

I would like to be consistent and will be aiming for posting to my blog each and every Friday.   

So, I just want to say hi and welcome and I look forward to reading your blogs.  

cindi