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Monday, November 29, 2010

Holy crap 235!

Well, I had a great few days off. I just spent most of the time with my family. We cooked. We played board games. We ate.  We saw a show. We visited. We watched football. What I didn't do was really spend anytime at all on the blog. For that I am sorry and yet not. It was nice to relax a few days. Spend it in the moment with the kids. But I opened my reader and I have 235 unread blogs. Holy Moly! You people are either really busy or I follow A LOT of blogs. I think it is the latter.  So I will spend some time today catching up on blogs. I have A LOT of reading to do so I may not have time to do a lot of commenting. Just know I'm out here and thinking of you all.

I had a great holiday and although I spent a lot of it recovering from my illness, otherwise know as evil virus, I did well with my eating. Not so much with the exercise. Other than housework and there was a lot of it, I didn't get much in. Also, the rolling around and chasing of children and a couple of walks.  On Friday I didn't leave the house except to run to the grocery store. I didn't partake of the shopping except on line. I looked through all the ads. I didn't see a single thing to motivate me to get up and out with the crowds by 4am.

Saturday morning I took the girls to see Disney Princess on Ice. They loved it, of course. They went all dressed in their princess outfits and tiaras.  I'm sure glad they loved it because it cost a fortune between the tickets, souvenirs, cotton candy, snow cones, pictures with the princesses and the like. By the end they were covered in sticky and tired. Fell asleep in the car. SCORE!  I was quite proud of myself as I didn't eat a thing at the show, just a coke zero. Although if I'd had my way I'd have had a nice beer. My mother thought sloshing it up at a kiddie show was somehow not appropriate. Whatever. I think it would have made the experience much more tolerable. On the bright side, I saved those calories.

Yesterday was spent cleaning house. Again. Geez. I'm almost glad I'm back at work today. Also, we finished up the tree. Our tree is......well a 3 day project. It is 12 feet tall. It takes me 1 day to get it up and fluff it out. Another to get the lights going and garland on. And yesterday we did the ornaments.  Tonight I have to finish the rest of the house so that I can do the outside lights on Friday when I'm off. I took off Friday for Big sister's Christmas party. I KNOW already and I'm supposed to read to her class. We're also doing Little Dude's birthday party Friday night and Little sister's party is Sunday. Yep. That's my life. Busy.

I'm tired this morning as I didn't sleep well. Also, I stayed up WAY too late watching TIVO. We are totally hooked on this show on FX, Terriers. If you aren't watching it you are missing out. The story is great. The acting is great. And We just couldn't stop watching it. This is the danger of TIVO as you can keep going show after show and the story got so good we couldn't stop and NOW we have to wait until this week's to see the finale. Cliffhangers. Love 'em. Hate 'em.

So I weighed this am and I am down 1/2 a pound. I feel this is pretty good considering the holiday, the illness and the laying around I did all week when I didn't feel well. I also didn't get all my water in last week. I tried to, but my throat was sore and I was just not able to guzzle it the way I had been. So today I am already back on track and plan a work out at lunch. Even though I am sooooo tired. I am getting back to it. I made an appointment with my trainer for next Monday. I haven't worked out with him in like 8 weeks and I HAVE to make sure I am back at it with the cardio or I'll be screwed.  Probably screwed anyway, but it'll be worth it and I HAVE to get back at it, even though a little part of me dreads it.

And so, I hope all of you did well with your holiday plans. The only blog I read was Allan's a little and I see he did great and a bunch of you did also. Sometimes I feel like a major under achiever even when I've come sooooooo far from a year ago when I ate and ate and ate and gained lord knows how much this time of year.  And so I will, for once, be happy with MY work and try not to compare myself to others. That is extremely self defeating for me. But, also honest with myself and know I can do more. I can do better. And realizing this, I'm off to do just that. Time for a refill on the water.

Have a great day, all!

14 comments:

  1. We're all on a different path, doc. Congrats to you on your progress. Keep it up!

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  2. So I have to ask, what did you do for your sore throat? I posted the remedy I'm trying for mine on my blog yesterday but I will take any advice!

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  3. Sore throat- No easy fix. Hot tea with honey. Salt water gargles. I like Liquid Motrin.

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  4. Holy crap is right! That number would stress me out. Yep, watching Terriers and all caught up but we missed a few episodes. Don't get me started on Tivo. I have a love/hate relationship with ours. Our old one died last month and we replaced it (no holiday gifts for hubby and me) and then the new one had a bad hard drive and it was replaced and then that one was bad and we are now on the third new one! Each time we lose shows that were recorded and need to go through the whole darn set up again. Sigh. See... you got me going on that. Sorry.

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  5. ARGH!! The Evil Virus is working its way through our house now. Teen Son#2 and Teen Daughter#2 had it the week before Thanksgiving. I woke up yesterday with it. All I ask is please, please spare the Dear Husband! He's a horrible patient, and I have no patience (ha! pun!) with him when he's sick!

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  6. Yeah, that's a lot of reading. I kind of pick and choose which ones to read and try not to feel guilty about not commenting on each little post. There are so many great blogs and great people out there, it is hard to read all of them every day and even if you did, how could you keep it straight who is doing what?

    I'm glad you're feeling better and not gaining. Keep moving the right direction we know you'll be on track again soon!

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  7. Glad you had a nice weekend with family. The evil virus has been at my house too, and it's a bad one. It's been particularly hard on my exercise component. Take care, and I think you have done very well with your weight loss. No need to make comparisons--we're all unique--that's what makes us so interesting!

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  8. Weight loss during the holiday deserves a celebration. The thing is we celebrate with food it seems, so no celebration may be the way to go. Call it the anti-celebration. Toasting you with water & a smile!

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  9. After the holiday weekend you are down a half pound? FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC!!! I'm so impressed!!! I think you are doing GREAT. :)

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  10. Congrats on the loss during a holiday week :)

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  11. Doc, I am WAY impressed with how you did over the holidays. Losing a half pounds is super and sure beats my 10.5 lb gain (some has to be water, it just has to be). Sounds like you had a great time, relaxing and spending it with the family. Getting that 12 foot tree ready has to count as exercise, that is some serious work.

    You're doing awesome!

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  12. I am tired just reading about your schedule! YOu burn the candle at both ends as my mother says!

    It sounds like a nice time off spent with family and that is the best thing ever.

    Holy cow a 12 foot Christmas tree!

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  13. When I saw "Holy Crap 235!" I was afraid you gained two turkeys! Whew.

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  14. Glad to see ya back at in blogland Doc!

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