Days 56 & 57

Monday night, I was helping my daughter fix her “Reptile Light Bulb”. Basically, it is a normal ice-cream swirled looking light bulb. I was trying to get it back into its base and the bulb shattered in my hand. So, after Dr. Hubby fixed me all up, I was off to sleep with a little extra pain relieving medication. In fact, I slept right through my alarm and didn’t wake up until 7:30am! Needless to say, there was no working out yesterday morning – or later in the evening – it wasn’t happening.



This morning was different. Even after a restless night, I seemed to be eager to get up and workout this morning. I get the girls up and off we go. We get through the first mile with complaint after complaint, so I told (yelled at) them to go back to the car and wait! CL and I got through the 2nd mile and when we came upon my vehicle, I could see that they were in there watching a movie! Really! Do they not care at all! I was mad, so I got them out of the car and made them do the 3rd mile with me. Of course I’m yelling at them most of the way – telling them that I am going to let them see their weights today – they will see how much their efforts over the last 2 weeks has affected the direction of the scale!

We got home and not much was said. Kiki gets on the scale, then Kitty. Both of them were quiet...

Kiki’s current weight = 127.6 –SAME + 5 oz

Kitty’s current weight = 172.2 – GAIN of 4 POUNDS!!!!

My current weight = 167.2 – SAME + 2 oz

TWO FREAKING WEEKS AND NO ONE LOST ANYTHING!?!?

I know it’s been 2 weeks of this or that, but WE need to get our crap together and redirect our motivation towards our goals!

After all the morning events were done and the girls had gone back to their morning chores. My son decided that I needed to clean up his puke and diarrhea for numerous hours! YAY!

That’s what I get for yelling at the girls this morning! I know...

Days 52-55

Catching up:

Friday was spent with 8 hours in the hot West Texas sun at the Oilmans Sporting Clays Shoot– no formal workout.

Saturday was met by 5 straight hours of sweat running into my eyes from cleaning renovation messes and moving a friend’s furniture to her brand new house – no formal workout.

Sunday was spent doing very little because the pain from a knee injury moving a couch was still healing – no formal workout.

This morning – no workout. The swelling in my knee has almost disappeared into a really ugly green and blue bruise. We’ll see about tonight, but don’t expect my eagerness to improve.

This week is weigh-in. Even though, we haven’t had any formal workouts, I’m not really worried. I wouldn’t even care if I gained a pound at this point, because I know that LIFE HAPPENS. There are situations, circumstances, obligations, and choices that WE (ALL OF US) meet every day and if that means that you have to adjust your routine for a few days then THAT is exactly what you do. You don’t stop living, you don’t take a time out from everyone you know and you don’t fly away to Never Never Land when you are working out and learning to eat healthier.

You just take a few deep breaths, buy a knee brace and decide to keep marching toward your success 1 pound at a time.