Kari’s Blog

I have to tell you buddies, I am really glad that I took the step to publicly post my “Thanksgiving Challenge” here…it kept me motivated through a tough weekend!   We had a pumpkin carving party last night, and people brought over SO much tempting food!!  Cookies and cheeses and candies, oh my!!  I had a few but stopped soon enough to avoid serious damage to the waistline.

HUGE THANKS to all my buddies who commented on my last blog and helped me keep my motivation for this challenge!

As far as my action steps go, here’s where I am:

I brought my lunch to work today.

I’m drinking all my water.

And I’m going to work out this evening, hell or high water!!

I’m also finally updating my weight-ticker to show my “now” weight…after those extra pounds crept back on….accountability, I’m back!

And the last change - I updated my profile photo to show me in my wedding dress. Maybe seeing this every day when I log in will be a better reminder that July 14 is going to creep up on me before I know it!!!

My self-challenge for the next four weeks is to lose 5lbs by Thanksgiving.  This may not seem like much - 5 pounds in 4 weeks isn’t exactly a lightning rate of loss, but it will be a challenge for me.  First, I won’t be able to achieve it without building exercise back into my routines, which I NEED to do.  Second, with all the stress of getting our house/condo ready for the move at the end of November, I know I’ll be tempted to grab food that’s ‘fast & easy’ instead of ‘good & healthy’.  This challenge should help me stay on track and lose a bit of the jiggle that’s developed when I stopped running for a couple of weeks!

Anyone else up for the challenge?

My steps to accomplish it will be:

- Exercise at least 3 times per week

- Start taking my lunch to work again (I got really bad about not doing this during quarter-end)

- Reimplement my personal rule to not eat after 7pm

- Get at least 7 hours of sleep each night

Wish me luck!

I’ve been away too long…again.  I’ve been eating well but haven’t made the time for as much exercise as I should, so my weight has just maintained.  I can’t believe it’s been 13 days since I last blogged…it didn’t seem like that long!!  I just finished Q3 close at work and it was 3 straight weeks of nonstop craziness, late nights, travel, etc.  I’m exhausted just thinking back on it!

In addition to the craziness of work, DF & I decided to move closer in to town in order to help with our commutes, and so within the past week we’ve put an offer on a condo downtown and are going to be renting out the house that we’re currently living in.  So in the next few weeks before Thanksgiving, we have to pack, move, rent the house, etc.  Yikes!

I need something to remind me that July and the wedding will be here before I know it…..it still seems so far away, I mean it’s the middle of NEXT YEAR and that doesn’t seem very imminent.  It’s getting harder to find time to exercise as the daylight hours get shorter.  Once we move to the condo we’re not going to have our in-home exercise equipment anymore, either…we won’t have room.  I may have to break down and join a gym!! 

Today my focus is cleaning the house from top to bottom in order to have it sparkling for some potential renters who are going to check it out this evening.  I will do my best to catch up on blogs though - I missed everyone!!!

I rolled out of bed this morning and went for a run (4.7m) before coming to work.  Of course, the only reason I was able to do this is that I know I’m going to be working late tonight, so I asked my boss if it was ok for me to come in around 9:30 instead of 8, and she said no problem. ;-)  If I could work a 9:30 schedule every day, exercise would fit in to my morning a lot easier!  The run felt great.  Even though I was so inconsistent about my training in the past couple of weeks, I’m still at my same pace and feeling strong.  There’s a half-marathon here in town at the end of this month that I would love to do.  It’s called the “Run Like Hell” and it’s the Sunday before Halloween. People are encouraged to run in costume and there’s a big costume contest after the race.  My goal is to run an 8 miler this weekend and if I can do that, then 10 or 11 next weekend, I’ll feel ready to do the half on the 29th.  I don’t know if I’ll dress up though….DF & I are planning to be Mulder & Scully from the X-Files for Halloween (aren’t we DORKS?!?) and I don’t think running in a skirt would be all that great.

Yesterday I still struggled with keeping away from the sweets….I lost track of how many times my hand dipped into the candy bowl here at work.  Today my goal is to STAY AWAY from that bowl.  I just have to imagine that it’s some kind of scary monster whose goal is to make my wedding dress not fit me.  Talk about SCARY!

I am just so amazed at how easy it is to fall back into old habits.  Egads!!  I am having the worst time staying away from sweets this week, and after ignoring Sparkpeople and my food tracking during the week my aunt was having all her scary issues, I am completely lost again with my food intake.  I did weigh in this week and I’m up a couple of pounds (of course Mr. Tom is also visiting so who knows how much is related to that). 

I’m also having a hard time getting motivated to do my exercise again.  How is that possible?? I was so addicted to my week-day jogs, they were invigorating, and I want that feeling again, it’s just hard to push myself out the door these past couple of weeks.  I went for a run this weekend with some friends and it felt good.  I wish I didn’t work so early, it would be great to meet up with people to do a run in the morning before work, but with my schedule it just doesn’t mesh with other people’s timelines.

Annnnnywhoooooo….I will say one positive thing before I end this blog….I FINALLY got all my water in today, after being seriously dehydrated over the past several days, so at least that’s looking up! 

Take care buddies, I’m going to go catch up on all your blogs now.  I’ve really missed you!

Hey buddies, just wanted to stop in and say hello, even though I don’t have much “slim” related to blog.  My aunt is doing better this week, there were a few times last week when it was touch-and-go whether she’d make it through a certain day or not, but she’s stable and at home now which is pretty amazing given the condition she was in a week ago. 

I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU sfrom the bottom of my heart for all your kind thoughts and comments and especially to those of you who sent me messages asking where I was. :)  You guys are the best and I truly appreciate your concern. 

I thought about you while I was gone buddies!!  I’m back now, I’ll do my best to get back in to daily blogging, and I’ll post a new weigh-in on Monday - I have no idea where I’m at, I haven’t been tracking for the past two weeks as things were so crazy.  But I think I’m about the same, so that’s good - no baggage from ’stress eating’.

Take care!