Day Forty-One: Slowly Coming Back to Life

Today, for the first time in a week, I woke up feeling almost normal. Two nights of going to bed early seem to have helped, thank goodness! I guess life is bound to be full of false steps and good weeks and bad ones. The key, as always, is to get yourself back on track as soon as you can. As I have said many times, I want to get to my goal weight in a healthy way. I believe part of that is not making myself miserable. If I need to rest, I need to rest--that's just a fact. And I am trying to just give myself a break for this week's exhaustion and move on to the next step without feeling like I have failed. That's something that's happened to me in the past--I am great till my first moment of defeat, and then I can't get back up. I am not letting that happen this time. I am making positive changes overall, and I need to remind myself frequently of the bigger picture, which is far more important that the day-to-day performances.

I was glad I managed to sneak in a little walk at lunchtime today, though it was shorter than usual since I was meeting my friend Sonya for lunch. There are never enough hours in my day.I had good intentions of getting in another evening walk, but I opted in favor of Family Movie Night, which is a Friday night event we haven't had in a while. In fact, I made a decision not to kill myself this weekend in favor of spending some good time with the family before Jason leaves Monday for a week in the Netherlands. I am well equipped to have a good healthy week, and this weekend, I plan to relax, love up on my family, and get some more rest!

Log:

Exercise: 

• Lunchtime walk: 1.5 miles before meeting a friend for lunch

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: cup of tea with 2% milk and 1/2 a tsp of raw sugar, 2 boiled eggs, 2 Applegate Farms chicken and sage sausage links, a chopped up heirloom tomato from my garden
• Lunch: Lunch at Page Road Grill with my friend Sonya--a turkey, bacon, and avocado sandwich with pesto on whole wheat toast, house made chips with ranch, half and half iced tea. Good lord, it was a lot of calories.
• Dinner: a bowl of Kashi oatmeal flakes with blueberry clusters and milk
• Snacks:

Stats:

• Steps:7880
• Calories:  1501 consumed,  194 burned
• Weight: 200 on the home scale (Amazed that I am holding after this week!)