April 13

         Happy Wednesday! This is a busy busy time for me, and I've found myself slipping back to my old ways of "grab and go" meals. They're from home, but I'm just grabbing whatever I can to satisfy my hunger. Not good....I need to take time for myself to sit and eat. Even if it's only 10 minutes, I need to do that. I just started this at lunchtime, and I do feel satisfied and full. I'm watching what I eat stil and my portion controls. I'm faithfully working out daily, and 3x a week, are my big workouts at Perry. I go see Hanna next week for another training session so that will help also.

    Sunday I had rode my bike 8 miles. It felt good. It's funny, you don't feel the mountains in the roadway when you're driving a car, but I definately noticed them riding my bike up and down them! Ok, I'm riding on a back road near lake Erie. I may........... have exagerated...... just a tad on the mountain part, but in my defense, I was riding against the wind as well!! But it still felt good to ride, and I did it!!!!

 After that I had told Bob to go fly a kite...seriously... we went and flew a kite! It was pretty windy, and much fun! Haven't done that a quite a few years!! And it was a workout, mostly for me, I was the one chasing it down the beach to help get it back in the air!!!

   My dilemma I had a couple of weeks ago, seemed to have worked itself out. So my life is back to normal once again. I was at my dad's 81st birthday party Saturday, and I had gone in the kitchen for something, and I heard my name being called, and sure enough, it was the m& ms's calling me!! So I had to oblige, and eat 3 of them. When I went back out to sit next to Bob, he looked at me, and said...Do I smell M& M's?? Busted...I'm glad he called me out on it, because I was certain to have gone back and have more..Thank you Bob!!

    Started to feel like a slacker the past couple of days. Maybe it's just long work days, but I really had to force myself this morning to get out of bed and workout. I did it, and I felt better afterwards for it, but boy what a struggle it was for me.. Tomorrow is another day.. If I can get through this week, things will smooth out and slow down for a couple of weeks, that will be nice..

   I'm hopeful that I'll have another good weight loss at the end of the month, along with everyone else. It's going to be easier to work out, be it in the yard, or just being able to get outdoors! I still wish everyone much success, and keep up the good work!! We can do this! And we are!!!!
 

Vivian