Week 16 - Updates

Where to begin?

I had the best weigh in this Weight Watchers go-a-round on May 9th. I lost 3.4 pounds quite unexpectedly. FINALLY made it to my first mini-goal of being the weight I was the first time I joined Weight Watchers. This time being 182 the struggle to make it back to 150 seems a lot less daunting and intimidating. Why I wonder? I've been giving that a lot of thought. I've already lost this EXACT weight before. I've already had to go through seeing the scale slip down into the 170's, 160's and finally the 150's. I know I can do this part of it. The first 50 seemed damn near impossible. This I've done before and can and will do it again. So then why is it so frigging challenging for me to stay on freaking program?

Is it that I'm on maternity leave and have a tendency to get the boredom hungries. I've been restless and bored as of late. There is so much I could be doing and want to do, but obviously with a baby I can't just spend 8 hours working on a project as I did just two years ago. I'm the kind of person who likes to sit and do something start to finish. There is no leaving something for tomorrow. I like to know that once I start something I'll finish it and be able to move on tomorrow. I've got all these plans in my head like painting the hall, giving my kitchen a face lift...oh the plans I have. I'd rather do it all myself rather then spend lots and lots of money to have someone else do it for me.

I guess that is why I've been so restless as of late. I see the finish line. When we moved into our house we took a lot of "temporary measures" fully expecting to update things within the first five years. We bought this house five years ago this month and I moved in five years ago as of September 25th. I'm done with temporary. I'm ready to work. I say I can see the finish line because our mortgage is up for renewal and with the rates as low as they currently are we are planning on re-financing and will end up paying only $6 more than what we do now. Pretty sweet huh?

My first week without a computer was stellar. My second week (and so far this week) not so much. Again, I'm an emotional eater. I had a less than memorable Mother's Day. You want the first one to be special right? Let's just say I've been trying to forgive and forget.

Back on track today. I'm not going to let a long weekend and dumb food choices ruin my entire week. I can stop the damage here and now. I may not be able to reverse the damage I've already done at least I can't make it worse.

Will post today's food journal tomorrow. I've got a busy week a head of me. Mother Goose with James tomorrow. Thursday involves driving Dad to a Dr. appointment then our first ball game at night. Friday...open right now.

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow!