Tuesday - Just Checkin' In

Just checking in this morning.  Let's take a look at yesterday and see how I did.  

No cookies - Check

No chocolate - Check

No fast food (Mon-Fri) - Check

No coffee house coffee (Mon-Fri) - Check

No eating out (Mon-Fri) - Check

Get all my water in - Check

Work out at least 3 days - Not yet (why is this one so hard?!?!)

Minimal snacking - Not bad

So over all, it didn't check in too badly.  I didn't work out as my legs had just had it by the time I got home.  Will be doing this today.  Must. get. back. to. exercising.  I say it and I say it yet it just doesn't happen.  I also snacked more than I had intended to but just couldn't seem to get full yesterday.


Work is still kind of a mess.  We have this one issue that's just killin' me...it's a BIG issue but it's like all consuming.  My boss has been out of the office the last 2 days and she's not going to be happy when she gets in today.  No change in my grandmother's status...thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.  This isn't all that unexpected but it's still sad to see it happen.  Not that I wish death on anyone but sometimes it's the most merciful choice.  My allergies are a mess.  We had a wicked windy day yesterday and it's kicked up pollen, weeds, grass, branches, you name it.  My nose started running last night, eyes got itchy and woke up with a headache this morning.  It's supposed to calm down today.  Hopefully my allergies do too.  


I've noticed that a lot of the longtime bloggers are less inspired, motivated or inclined to blog these days.  There's been a few posts batting around about it.  I can definitely see why that would be.  I mean...if you've hit goal and maintaining well...you may feel that you have nothing to blog about, especially if the main focus of your blog was weight loss.  For those like me who have been stuck at 30 lbs to goal for the last 4 months, it may just seem futile.  How many times can I post "I must exercise" before either a) blogger identifies too many similar posts and disables my blog altogether, b) I lose a gazillion followers, feel unloved and drive a screwdriver through my monitor, or c) I get off my ass and do it.  I'm hoping for C.  But I can see why that wouldn't be real motivating.  Then other bloggers seem worried about B (the followers part).  I know we all love having them and the support is fan-freaking-tastic, but really...these blogs are more like therapy than anything else.  Some think we don't want to hear about your kids or puppies or jobs or why Uncle Al isn't invited over for Christmas anymore.  But, personally, I love blogs like that.  Makes me feel like these blogs are written by real people vs some virtual machine that just spits out posts to keep me occupied while I should be working  have free time.  As for me, I don't care who I bore or if no one ever reads this again.  There's a great amount of accountability in this and I feel that if I were to disappear, I'd start gaining the weight back or just lose focus.  OK...those are my little thoughts on blogging.  I, too, have been asking myself what I'm getting out of blogging since I haven't lost even a pound in MONTHS.  I know what I get out of it.  I get all those feelings out that would bore people in "real life" to tears.  And poor Hubby doesn't have to sit through ALL my mindless ramblings (though he does get most of them).  


Wow...very random post today.  I'm starting to look toward my next event.  I know I'll be doing one in April (thinking of a 10k vs the 5k) but might see if there is one before that.  Otherwise, it's just another Tuesday in Candyland.  Hope it's a good one for ya. How about some cute panda pics to make the blog more interesting this morning?