Weekend Update

Let’s see….my Friday started out great! I got to work on time and I felt refreshed. However, I then spent the afternoon with the hubby in Urgent Care. He had blood in his phlegm but the chest x-ray came back good. So they gave him a shot in the butt and sent him home with some antibiotics. Now I have been trying to get better but to no avail. I spend most of Saturday in bed asleep. I had no energy and my nose ran and ran. Today I woke up feeling as though my face were a punching bag. It hurts so bad and I when I breathe through my nose it’s like swallowing pool water. I hate this time of the year. It never fails. I get a sinus infection that wipes me out for weeks. When I go to the doctor they tell me that it’s pretty much ran its course and to go home and get some rest. I am seriously thinking about talking to my doctor about getting an allergy shot in the spring and fall.

On the upside, I did go to town with my parents. I need some things and they were willing to chauffer me around. I got some dandy lion killer because they are starting to take over my front and back yard. By the way, our grass is still the greenest in the neighborhood. When I got home, I quickly sprayed the yard and watered my pansies. Since then, I have been in bed watching The Masters with a friend via Blackberry IM. I just took a dose of Alka Seltzer Cold and rubbed some Vik’s on my chest. I am hoping that I am better by tomorrow. If not, I am not going to work. I have been told my sinus infections aren’t contagious but considering the gunk Kelly had I don’t want to be spreading disease around the office.

With being sick, my diet is no existent. I haven’t felt like eating anything. I have been picking at my food. I had macaroni and cheese for lunch and picked at some Sonic food for dinner. Let me tell you, it didn’t make me feel any better.  Today, my parents took me to lunch. I had two cheese enchiladas and a cup of posole. That wasn’t too bad until I had the sopapilla. But I am full and need to remind myself that the hungry feeling I am feeling isn’t really there, it’s the comfort of having food and stress that I am feeling. I am going to go for some fruit and yogurt for dinner. I need to give my immune system a boost. I have been really good about drinking my water. 

Oh, it just dawned on me that I put a widget on the top of my page that shows my weight loss progress. I started it at 195lbs because that’s when I was at my heaviest. The last few days I have been hanging in at 171lbs but I still want to break 170. I have been good this weekend about drinking at least 40oz of water and taking my vitamins. I just need to get over this hump. I need to get my stuff together and start working on my target again.



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Ok….so I still feel like crap. I have had a mild fever for two days now. I went through an entire bag of cough drops to soothe my throat this morning. My body feels like a wet noodle, limp and no energy. I really didn’t have an appetite today but I ate like I had one. Well, at least I did at breakfast and dinner. I am going to pack my lunch tomorrow so I can get a better control over things. I am planning on doing the same for Friday. I am afraid that I have already ruined the good news that I wanted to share with you. I weighted myself on Sunday and I was at 170. This would be the lowest I have weighed in 5 years. This means that I have lost 22 pounds sense I started my diet. However, I am now back up to 173. I don’t know if this is just a normal/premenstrual weight fluctuation or if I have put the pounds back on. I drank a ton of water today trying to keep fluids in my system to get my health back on track and to try and keep my weight down.

So here are my goals for this week, or the remainder of the week: Take food for meals and snacks to work on Thursday and Friday, get adequate sleep, drink lots of water, take vitamins regularly, jump back on the work out band wagon.  



Playing Catch Up

The last two days have been a bit rough. Thursday night I got home around 9:30 and went straight to bed. I woke up at 1:30am realizing I hadn’t worked out. Ugh! I couldn’t believe it. I just went straight to bed, didn’t even think about it. I was up for most of the night after that. I went to work and my allergies were making my eyes feel like they were going to bust out of my head. Then my legs and feet started aching. I’m not sure what caused that. Sometimes I wonder with my diet that my body is adjusting to not receiving the same amount of crap it’s use to and is adjusting. So because my legs hurt so bad last night and I was exhausted from not getting any sleep…I once again went straight to bed. I feel like I have failed because I have not done my 40 minutes for 40 days. I just need to keep plugging along. I am starting to see results again. I do not want to make it official until Tuesday though. That is my official way in day. As long as I do well this weekend I will be able to share the good news with all of you.

Today’s plans are going to be involving yard work!!! Yay!! I am a sucker for good weather and working out in the yard. We will be building our raised garden boxes this weekend and doing some branch removal to open up our garden area to more sunlight. My apple and peach tree have started to bud. I need to get a string of lights on my peach tree. I want to keep the buds from freezing so that I can have some fresh peaches to work with this summer. The blackberry bush I planted last weekend seems to be doing well.  There is no new growth but none of the leaves have wilted. I planted pansies in my front planters this weekend and they wilted a little with the cold weather at night but I hope that they pull through with the warm weather today. Oh, I have to brag!!!! We have the GREENEST grass on our block. We are very proud of this. There is a sense of pride when you come home and you are looking at yards and you see your own yard and it looks amazing!!! The back yard is lagging a little bit but the weed and feed has been applied. It seems to have been abused in the past and takes a little longer to come around.

I need to get this day started. I hope you all have a wonderful day and get to enjoy the sunshine!