Jen16226

The things I have done right this week:

1-Great WI of down 4 pounds.

2- Consistent with my workouts.

3- Actually started to jog a little bit on the treadmill!!!!  I have never jogged in my life!!!!!

4-Ate right…..stayed within my points and ate good foods.

5-Stayed positive.

6- Did not stress eat.

I think the hardest one was the stress eating this week.  If you had read my last blog, we had a really horrible thing happen in our little town….brief breakdown….3 kids on their way to school were hit by a tractor trailer..the load the truck was carrying(rolled steel) came loose and rolled off right onto the car crushing the drivers side horribly.  The girl driving was killed instantly.  The boys were seriously injured.  The boys are very good friends with DS#2, we know both sets of parents as well(one of the boys and the girl are brother and sister, the 3rd boy is their cousin.).  In our tiny town, it has been a HUGE blow.

This coming week, I will continue with everything I am doing.  There really isn’t anything that I feel I need to change in my program….not at the moment.

Everyday it seems like something just gets under my skin…..less often though since I was laid off.

Yesterday our tiny town was rocked pretty hard by tragedy.  3 kids were on their way to the HS and were in an accident with a truck…the trucks load of rolled steel then came loose and landed right on top of the car crushing the drivers side.  The 17 y/o girl driving was killed instantly.  Her younger brother and cousin were hurt badly.

Living in such a small town has it’s advantages…certainly in where everyone knows everbody…but it also hurts in an instance like this for the same reason.

My complaining about lifes ups and downs seems sooooo little and petty compared to what this family is going through right now.  My heart just breaks for them. 

It goes to show not to take things for granted and to hug the ones you love often.

I am sooo proud of myself this past week.

Since getting laid off last Friday, I really put it in my mind that I was not going to sit in the house all day….and I am following through on that.

I have been going to the YMCA each day for a little over an hour to workout!  I figure we have the membership and had really started to use it a couple of months ago, well I am now going to start using it for me and not just as a family.  They have a very nice weight room, pool and some cardio equipment.  I have started to make it a point to get in 30 mins of cardio each day and then to alternate upper and lower body in the weight room.  So far so good.

I will not stop. I will keep going. 

It was sooooo nice to not have to dread getting up this morning to go to that hellhole. 

I think I have a good plan in place on how to handle my time off. 

First….I am changing my WW meeting.  I will start going to a morning meeting that my mom goes to.

Second…..Since we have the Y membership, I am going to go there a few days a week to get my workouts in and make sure I swim too.

Third……the job market just plain sucks where I am.  Unless you are looking for something in the medical field, your chances are slim to none….so the state will pay for courses and I am going to take advantage of that.

It has been a VERY stressful week.  VERY.

The kids have been grating on my last nerve with their fighting. 

Baseball season has officially started with practices.

Work….well I have been hating it for a long time.

 Sooooo this morning I went into work and guess what?!?!  I got laid off!!!!!!!!!  I almost did a jig right there when they told me!  I have been looking in the paper and online for a new job, but now I can take my time and be choosy about it.  I was very gracious when they told me.  Heck I even stayed half the day just to complete some things and tie up some loose ends on my side. 

Through all of this my eating has been good.  That did surprise me a bit.  I think the fact that I have been working out has helped me in that department.

Oh well….off to workout before the kids get home from school!

I am very proud of myself this week.

First, my WI on Monday……I stayed the same.  I totally expected that due to Tom.

I have been eating very good all week and did not cave too badly.  When I did cave into something that I wanted, I found either an alternative or I did have what I wanted and made sure that I journaled every morsel.

Journaling……I journaled everything!  I am good at it anyway, but this time every BLT.

 Exercise……this is the department that I have a hard time with.  Honestly, the best thing to happen was getting my hubby to bring that elliptical up to the bedroom for me.  I have been using it almost every other day since he brought it up there and I am able to do it for 30 mins!!!  I have also been incorporating the strength training in there.  This area has been hard on me this time around.  I am not able to do what I love due to my knee.  I am not sure if this is going to be a permanment thing or hopefully just until I get it stronger.  I miss doing the firm, but my knee is not stable enough to get on that box.  But anyway back to what I was saying…..this has been the hardest adjustment for me.  To try and figure out another way of getting cardio in, without tearing the ACL again. 

No matter what it is, you can always find an alternative…..it may take a while and it might take trying different things, but there is always another way.

WI went exactly as I knew it would last night…..stayed the same.  Tom is about to come for a visit so typically I have a gain.  Progress will show on the metal monster next week.  Everything I did this week was positive though……..got my activity in, got my water in(except for at the basketball tournament..but that bathroom was nasty!), ate good.

I have been using the elliptical since hubby moved it up to the bedroom for me….it may not be alot of time on it, but I have to work up to that….and I will!  I am also loving the stability ball.  The other day I bought a new DVD of exercises for it and am looking forward to using that.  Maybe later today after putting in some elliptical time.

Today I am home once again with a sickie.  It is DS#3 again.  He had stomach issues last week and as bad as this is going to sound, I really thought his telling me he had it again last night was a way for him to get out of going to school today.  Well then he was in the bathroom again this morning and I decided no school.  I am sure when I call work in a few minutes they are not going to be happy, but what else can I do?  It’s not like I can send him to someones house to be watched while he is sick and Hubby is back on the road.  This time he is on the Iowa/Illinois border.  He thinks he might be gone for a little over a month….this means I have a good bit of time to see what changes I can make while he is gone this time. Changes I would like to make by that time are:

Hit my 20 lb mark……….get the elliptical up to 25 mins each time……have a little bit more in the visible results.

I can do it!