Mysteriously down

First let me say -I am a daily weigher and I'm perfectly o.k with that. My day is not ruined if I see a gain. I find it helps me stay in check...now that's out of the way.

I've been down half a pound two days in a row. Weird, considering I forgot my journal at work again and the tracking has been iffy. It's all written down but is getting written after the fact. I'll take it the loss though, I haven't been eating incredibly unhealthy things. My dinner last night was whole wheat crackers and whipped cream cheese, not gobs of it I just didn't feel like cooking. I have had to run for buses and walk lights so perhaps these jolts of uber activity have stirred up my metabolism. I'm also nearing the end of the dreaded TOM so that will have a great impact.

Water is getting better, not where I want it to be but baby steps.

H&M is coming to Calgary. I'm excited, never been in one, but excited anyway. I think they're going to put in an area called Deerfoot Meadows. Not a convenient area by any sense of the imagination if you take public transit so I might have to covet from a far.

I'm very happy that TV is getting better with some new episodes again. Wasn't incredibly impressed with Gilmore Girls. I think it's having a slow death.

I'm strangely intrigued by Dancelife on MTV. Where dancers audition for different artists like J-LO (in the first episode and I think she produces it). What I found funny (not knowing anything about professional dancing whatsoever) is that the auditions were happening in what looked like a roller skating rink or community gym. Of course this is probably some well known established place where people try out for back up dancer positions.

Just got my textbook for the course I signed up for yesterday. Go University Bookstore, I ordered it yesterday afternoon and had it in my hands by noon the next day. It helps I got it delivered by city courier. It was one dollar more than the cheapest mail option.

Alright bit of a random post today but that just happens.

Have a great day everybody!

Onwards and upwards

Officially finished my first online course today, now I wait for the final mark. Signed up for the second one, I had until the 28thto register online though in theory the class started on the 22nd.
This is one of the core courses no more pre-requisites...I think I just freaked myself out.

I've spent the last two days getting the final project for the first class sorted. It looks could and I've submitted it. Another team member fixed the references of rebel Question 3 team member. That person owes us big, there were a huge amount of spelling and grammar mistakes in their portion. Good luck in future courses buddy.

Food wise I haven't been perfect. Two days in a row I had home made banana/low fat ice cream/ PC chocolate sauce sundaes. Workouts have been difficult to schedule because of this school stuff and scrambling to find a gift suitable for an 11 year old...I'm very out of touch of what's in that group. I got her a dvd that her mom said she like.

I'll definitely have to consider early morning workouts or do early morning school work.

New Plan

I'm putting a new plan into practice today. I've written down my planned food in my tracker and I'm writing what time I have each thing. So I've got breakfast, lunch and snacks written down and now I'm going to track when I'm hungry. I think part of my weakness for snacking is not eating the right combination of food. Not having the right fuel leads me to have blah energy levels or so hungry that I miss my workout window. Yesterday I made a homemade egg english muffing and I wasn't hungry for a really long time. Today I had oatbran with brown sugar and Milk at 5:50ish this morning, now at 10:30am I'm starting to get a little hungry so I'll have a snack (yogurt) and see how it goes.

I've got a very strange lunch/snack combo because I simply couldn't think of what to bring.
My snack collection consists of yogurt, apple, cherries, turkey bite, baby bell
The main part of my lunch is two mini raisin bagels with light cream cheese. I don't think the turkey bite will go with the bagels so maybe I'll have that as my snack now.

The experiment begins! I'll try the new Biggest Loser DVD tonight too, the first one was all Bob (who I adore) but I'm interested to see how Kim's style suits me. I seriously need to brush up on the turbo jam. I did the instructional dvd a long time ago and should now refresh.

Had a great night of tv last night, I was glued to Space . Watched Smallville for the first time in ages (Yeah Justice League), the season opener of Stargate:Atlantis, the new Dresden Files (Darker Harry Potter meets X-files) and my all time fave Battlestar Gallactica, then I got hooked into Grease:You're the one and The Apprentice. Yes, I was glued to the couch last night.

Heroes is back tonight as is Prison Break and Gilmour Girls tomorrow. My VCR is programmed because I'm not letting any of that interfere with my workout plan.

Here's to a great week!

Now what?

I got 100% on my assignment for my online class and that made me really happy. Now I have an interesting dilemma. For my group project, another person and I split a question because there's 5 questions and 6 people. He and I both posted our answers and are styles and how we interpreted the question are totally different. I think his is whacked and that he may be a bit of a pompous you know what. This is just a gut feeling.
However, I did email our prof to see if he was open to seeing it in two parts. I don't have a clue how I would fit mine into his or his into mine. I'm not saying I'm perfect, perhaps I misinterpreted the question.

I really don't know what to do. I posted a message on our groups discussion board to see what they thought. I guess I have to wait for that.

Plan wise I've been very good today and I'm actually drinking my water.

I'm super excited because Battlestar Galllactica is back tonight...yes I'm a sci fi geek and proud of it :)

Taking care of the house

Interesting topic at my WW meeting today, we talked about crossroads and instant gratification. It is quite remarkable that so much of our lives today are impacted by instant gratification, from high speed internet, blackberries, microwaves and cell phones. Not to mention the desire to lose pounds as fast as we can.

We also talked about taking care of the house, not the one with a roof and walls but yourself and your health. How often does that become the last priority on your list?

I had a pretty good gain today and my first thought was of disappointment in myself. Then I thought hold the phone...there are plenty of reasons for this gain primarily TOM. Could I have exercised more - yes, could I have drunk more water - yes. I'm not going to think of this in a negative way more as a reason to get my act together and focus because today is a new week.

Now I remember

Why there were moments I didn't like school. I've been working on my half of one question for my group project all afternoon and the more research I do the more frustrated I get. Mostly because I can't find that many valid resources online. The sad thing is my question is in regards to search engines and meta search engines. 3 out 6 of my group have posted their answers and were in discussion for a volunteer to but it all together. I volunteered since my question got split in half to go to the missing in action group member...who hasn't responded to anything in our discussion boards or email. The good thing is a bulk of my question can be answered by personal impressions. Like the pros and cons of certain searches. I said I'd post the final version by Sunday so that gives us 2.5 days to submit the final version. I'm feeling exam stress right now and I haven't felt that in a very long time. It would probably help if I was passionate about search engines...but I'm not. I must just think that once this project is done the course is finished. I will get to the other side.

I even toyed with the idea of skipping WW to work on this and then I realized that would be stupid. I have tonight and a fair bit of Saturday. I would like to post my stuff so the group can see it before we put it all together.

Dinner last night was great and not point friendly so today has been perfectly OP. It's a bit pathetic that I think one day of good behaviour will make it all good. I have talked myself out of all sorts of stuff knowing that it was just stress that made me want to eat.

I hate snack week

This week just keeps getting worse plan wise. It's amazing how much PMS can impact your eating and energy patterns. Thankfully I haven't snapped at anyone. Food is far more dangerous than my mood. I've been zonked everyday after work so workouts have been non existent. I must seriously consider getting up really early and doing it then.

The good thing is it's only a week. I'm going out to dinner tonight and I'll be at the restaurant first so I think I'll order some Edamame and water, and snack on that until they get there. By the time they get there hopefully all I'll want is soup. We're going to Earl's which is probably one of the mose point unfriendly restaurants. Today I was sidelined by oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but now I'm on water and I'll find a healthy lunch somewhere.

Last night I had to swing by Walmart to pick up a furnace filter. I was wondering why my furnace sounded funny and then it hit me...when was the last time I changed the filter. Well, I bought one that's 4 inches too short because I couldn't remember what size I needed, but that will do until Friday and the furnace is purring along now. I just might have to dust a bit more. Also made meatloaf yesterday because I had to do something with the ground beef in my fridge.

I really need to menu plan better, I too often buy something and then have to toss it because I didn't have a plan as to what to use it in. That's my goal this coming week, come up with a plan and put it on the fridge and try to organize so I can prep stuff the day before so when I walk in the door...shazam I can make dinner. That's another reason the workouts haven't happened this week. I get home hum and haw over what to make for dinner and it gets later. I need quick cooking ideas so I can get home workout and then make dinner. I think I just gave myself some homework.

Have a great day everybody!

Whoo Hoo it worked

I successfully logged into my online class yesterday and I did my test as well so now the only thing between me and being finished is "The Group Project". I have my question and a bit of research but we wanted to all have our questions finished by Friday. Which means homework tonight and fraudulent research during work hours tomorrow. I'm going out to dinner Thursday night. I just need to have it done sometime on Friday so it can be in the late hours. The project isn't due until Wednesday. Of course we still need to compile all the work.

I really really despise group projects. I prefer to work solo especially if there are grades involved.

Food wise last night was just weird. Had breakfast at 5:30am, got lured into seeking out an egg english muffin at 10:30. They were out of english muffins so got it on a bagel (should have chosed toast). However I did vow to not eat again until I was hungry. So at 5pm met a friend for a latte and she gave the other half of her carrot cake. O.K not ideal but at least it wasn't hole. Got home and had to keep an eye on the clock so I could log into my course before 7:30. Had Baby Bell cheese and turkey bites for dinner.

Weighed myself this morning and I was down 2lbs. Weird, just plain weird. Today was better. Had to go to meeting at lunch but the portions weren't big. However it will be soup for dinner. This has been a bad week for tracking and exercise. Oh well it's a week out of the rest of my life.

I shall pick up and move on.

Hope everyone had a great day and we'll see ya tomorrow.

The Globes and Ice cream

Food was again a bit of a disaster yesterday, not as bad as the weekend which I'll consider a victory. I was doing pretty good with Gardennay soup and hummous but then I started watching the Golden Globes and of course when watching incredibly skinny women in incredibly expensive dresses I must have ice cream. That wasn't so much the case but the low fat Breyer's did call my name. I got some and then only ate half so not so bad but still not OP.

The rest of the afternoon was rough as snack attack wielded it's ugly head. Today I'm armed with only healthy and portion controlled snacks so hopefully I can fend off temptation.

Didn't workout yesterday either as I had a wicked headache thanks to the chinook, more of a headache, neck and shoulder ache. While the majority of North America is facing Winter's wrath, we have nice weather. We had the wrath last week. I have to say the weather is just weird especially in the States. I feel so bad for these people because most of them don't know what to do with crazy winter weather as it just doesn't happen where they live. Ice storms are especially awful.

Only watched the first half of the Globes. I loved Hugh Laurie's speech thought it was pretty funny. I have to say this is one of my favourite award shows just because people seem to be having a good time and they're drinking. The Oscars always seem like they're waiting to get to the party.

I was super happy that America Ferrar (sp?) won for Ugly Betty, she rocks on that show.

It's take two of the online course tonight as it now appears my home computer has all that I need, so fingers are crossed that it works. Then all it cost me was $18 for speakers as opposed to a heck of a lot more for a new computer.

Off to drink lots of water and not think about snacks

All seems to be good

I say seems just to hedge my bets.

Dad is feeling better, after I convinced him to take the penicillin that his doctor had given him and to follow the instructions. He'll still get a phone call everyday until I'm certain he's back to normal.

My home computer is more fabulous than I originaly thought. I have a sound card, it was my speakers that were toast. Well that and the sound card wasn't "turned on", the only thing I need to do now is download a power point viewer and I have everything I need for the online courses. I even discovered that I can dictate to Word, it's a bit hit and miss but entertained me for a bit. I'm also on the hunt for a reasonable priced headphone/microphone.

I was down 1.6 at WI which just goes to prove that working out helps. The weekend was a points disaster but that's the past. I know this will be a tough week because it's snack attack week so I'm arming myself with healthy snacks.

Found the WW cakes on the weekend, I had been looking in the freezer sections a la Smart Ones but no they're in the bakery section. 1pt each, and they're very small but that of course is why they're 1pt each. So far I tried the carrot one and it's not bad. The icing is a little tough but I think I'll try putting in the microwave for a few seconds. I also bought the chocolate one, now I just need to find the lemon one. Also found Kozy Shack Rice pudding made with Splenda and some new flax seed apparently incredibly good for you english muffins.

Also went to Costco and picked up a huge container of Spring salad mix, mandarin fruit bowls, fresh blackberries, baby bell cheese and hummous.

My goal for the rest of this week is to stick to 23pts per day. I should technically be doing 22pts because I nudged into the 160s. I'm still closer to 170 then 160 so I'm sticking to 23pts.

I'm going back to the food accountability on here as well.

The Food:
Oat bran - 1,
Brown Sugar - 2
Milk-2
2 cups Coffee -4
Salad with spring mix, tomatoes, gr onions, Chick peas, a bit of shredded cheese and light Italian Dressing - 6
Yogurt - 1
Apple - 1
Sub Total: 17/23

6pts left for dinner and I'm thinking of a Gardennay soup and some FF Chocolate pudding which would still leave 2pts but since this weekend was pretty bad (I did write it all down in my journal) I might stop there. The workout plan for tonight is Step Aerobics . I picked up the new Kathy Smith Matrix strength workout dvd and I'll try that on Tuesday.

Here's to a good week!

Wee bit of stress - wee less

I couldn't log into my online course yesterday, apparently a firewall in work computer prevents me from doing so. Which I find weird because it lets me do the demos on the software's web page.

So now I must purchase a new computer. I'm thinking laptop but desktop might be cheaper. I already have a desktop that doesn't meet the requirements and of course it can't be updated but it's a good little machine. I think I'll go laptop and router then I can use desktop as back up.

Update: It looks like my colleague can update my home computer and all I might need to do is buy a sound card. I'll do a systems check when I get home and go from there. Fingers are crossed this saves me about a thousand dollars.

My first stress was due to trying to log on to the course, the second stress was realizing I had to purchase a new computer and the third stress was my Dad has a fever. My Dad never gets sick so that's just weird, it did sound like it was breaking last night so I'm really hoping he feels better or I'll be really worried.

Now the challenge is to not eat the stress, stick to healthy choices and have faith it will all work out.

I'm intrigued as to what I'll see tomorrow on the scale.

Have a great day everybody!

Brrrrrrr

It was a balmy -36 (with windchill) this morning and the only visible part of me while waiting for the bus was a thin slit showing my eyes. Thankfully it should warm up a bit, it's funny how -18 can feel fantastic compared to -36, it should be minus single digits by the weekend, heck break out the shorts.

I can't complain, it's winter after all and to be totally honest I prefer cold versus stinking hot.

The points weren't so great last night but I did get better as the day went on. I did do 38min of Kathy Smith Step Aerobics and really enjoyed it. I think I like the defined rhythm better too, the one thing I find with the 1st workout on the first Biggest Loser DVD is they all have a different pace which makes it difficult for me. So I've now worked out for 4 days in a row.

The Walmart flyer showed some new Kathy Smith DVDs called the Matrix Method. I'm intrigued but haven't found any concrete info on what these workouts involve. Might have to check it out.

Tonight will be a rest day since I have to stay late to do an online course. I haven't noticed too much movement on the scale but there's still two days to go. I have the day planned for buying lunch and supper with 2 pts remaining. So I'm leaving my tracker on my desk open to today so I'm constantly aware of where I am points wise. I'm officially out of flex points so I must be good for the next two days.

Today's focus shall be water since that continues to be a challenge for me. I really think the thing I need to remember is to take this all day by day. Not think about the past or the future just day by day.

Have a great day everybody!

Cold Weather = Snacking

An artic freeze has descended on my fair city in the last 24 hours bringing us vicious wind chills of -36 celsius.

This type of weather always makes me crave bad food, I'm not sure why but today has been tough. I factored in that I was buying lunch today so left a huge window of points but it didn't stop there. There's been swedish berries, pop corn and halloween candy. I haven't journalled any of it yet because I'm in denial but I will and it looks like 2pt soup for supper and one serious cardio workout.

I tried to do the Biggest Loser cardio workout last night but that lunge sequence kills me and that's about as far as I got so still about 20min of high pumping cardio but I definitely need to switch it up. It's either going to be the old stand by of step aerobics or tae bo tonight. I'm leaning towards step aerobics because I haven't done it in awhile and it's sort of a comfort thing. I think the plan for me is to still alternate cardio and strength but change up the workouts. It's like I knew what was coming with the Biggest Loser workout and my mind started to rebel. If I leave that particular workout for a week then I won't be so predisposed against it.

So a slight bump in my plan but no derailment - I'll take that as victory

Weight loss ad bombardment

Well so far so good, I've actually worked out 2 days in a row and have earned myself two stickers on the workout calendar on my fridge. I've decided to try the 6 week plan on the first Biggest Loser DVD, I might get bored by then but I'll keep up the alternating of strength and cardio.
On Sunday night I did the cardio workout and found that hard, I was a bit disappointed in myself because a few weeks ago I could get through it without any problem. Then I talked to my training partner and she so brilliantly reminded me that we've not yet recovered from the marathon. I tell ya that baby knocked the wind out of both of us. We both have to rebuild our endurance levels so now on top of giving myself a sticker for each workout, I also write how I felt about the workout so I can see how long it takes to improve.
Monday night I did the strength workout and I'm pretty proud of myself. I got home after work and I was ravenous so I made supper first and then got watching this show on TLC about a mother and father of 13, they have 3 sets of twins. I didn't get around to the workout until about 8pm. The important part of this is I did it and didn't talk myself out of it.

Tonight it's cardio again but what I'll do this time is have a protein snack (turkey bite or baby bell cheese) when I get home so that I do the workout right when I get home then make dinner.

Points wise I've been doing well, not perfect but as Alea said it's all about writing down the good, the bad and the ugly. Today I really need to focus on water, that's been a hurdle lately.

In regards to the title of today's entry, the major thing I've just shaken my head at is the bombardment of weight loss ads due to all those New Year's resolutions. No wonder we all get so confused and frustrated when all these ads promise quick fixes and miracle elixirs. They feature models that have never had a weight issue showing how you to can get the super duper abs by only forking over some moolah. All I can say is - Oy Vey.

Clarity

New features on the tickertracker weightloss option, now you can also put your BMI on there, and it asked for a password so that if you want to change things you don't have to start over...neato. The goal of 140 is fueled by hitting the mark so I can get lifetime at WW. I might aim for a wee lower because that would put me just on cusp of health bmi, but who knows I have no idea what my ideal weight should be since I've been chubby practically my whole life. Time will tell.

I was up 1.2 at my meeting which doesn't faze me. I'm not sure if it's due to the week before or the sodium content of cold medication. It's a new week and that's that.

The thing I found interesting this meeting was the topic of Winning Outcomes, the question "Why do you want this?" was on the board and that really made me think. I looked at my weigh in book and it seems the same 4lbs keep going back and forth. Mind you the marathon thing had an impact and so did the Holidays but it really made me think of why do I want this because if I really want this I can make it happen.

I want this because I want to live a healthy life, if I'm meant to have kids I want to have the habits in place to raise them healthy.

I want to not be invisible, I don't want to feel frumpy that doesn't mean I want to dress like I'm 13. I just want to have more options.

I will hit my goal in 2007 and more importantly make good habits a solid part of my life.

I've put the workout goal for the month of January on my fridge and it begins today with some Biggest Loser DVD cardio.

Must now go fold laundry, here's to a great week!

Planning time

Alright planning time!
I did have a veggie heavy supper yesterday with some steamed green beans with a wee bit of szechwan sauce and a Dr. Knorr soup (potatoe veggie something 2pts for the whole box). I think I'll be stocking up on those low point soups, I just find the WW 0pt soup a cavernous mass that for one person gets boring after a while. My veggie superstar supper was followed by chocolate pudding and a some snacking. I think that was more due to boredom and the frustrations of my living space being a bit messy. I can get a wee overwhelmed with chaos and then think about it while snacking. Well this morning I straightened up so tonight I can start on some chores and therefore not have my weekend consumed by them.

I caught the tail end of an episode of Dave Lieberman - Good Deals on Food Network, first of all he's so cute and may be added to my list of future fictional husbands, second of all he was making this low point appearing Moroccan chickpea stew. I must see if nutritional info is available. The theme of this episode was cheap, healthy work day meals so you can freeze and reheat which was my plan for this weekend providing I clean out my mini deep freeze.

My other plan is to create a workout plan today so I can post it on my fridge. I've been very negligent in this area lately. I quit the gym since it was boring me to tears and shall now embrace my dvd library. I might reconsider a gym in the future but instead of joining one on the fly I'll research better next time.

I've already completed a few assignments for my prereq course and I've got this great feeling of accomplishment going on. Hopefully that will keep up when the core courses start.

After going through my daily reads today, I really do think 2007 is the year of positivity. I've tried in this before but I'm going to try again and post a positive thought about myself as well as my food plan.

Here it goes: I'm cute.

Food plan today:
B:Squirrelly Bread Toast - 1, Nutella- 2, Milk-2 =5
S:Coffee - 2, Yogurt -1, Apple-1, 2pt Bar-2 =6 (These are for throughout the day)
L:Egg Salad Sandwich - 6 =6
Sup: Perogies - 3, Turkey Bite-2, Green Beans-0, Light Sour Cream-1 =6
Points:23/23

This also includes copious amounts of water and the challenge of no snacks after supper.
The mantra will be WI tomorrow and that should keep me on track.

We can do this!

It begins!

So I finally got information on the online course I'm taking. I did sign up on Dec. 28th and course started yesterday. I thought it might be a little late because of my late signing up. I honestly think I took the last spot. The course is "learning online" which is a prerequisite for all the other courses I'll be taking.

I'm going after a certificate in Human Resources Management. I work in HR and would like to get my CHRP designation which makes me a supreme ruler in HR (not really but I like the sound of that). I already have a double degree so I like the idea of just taking the courses I need to get me on my way. I'm pretty excited about doing courses again, not so much the tests but feeding my brain.

The take two of the cake turned out really well, it took an extra 11 minutes to bake on top of what the instructions said. The icing turned out wicked sweet, which is good then I won't eat it. Overall I think the dark chocolate of the cake will offset the icing, at least I hope so.

Stayed OP yesterday too, so I'm mighty pleased with myself.

The scale hasn't been too friendly but it always amazes me who much of a change you can see even in a few days.

Food Today:
B: Squirrely Bread Toast - 1, Nutella - 2, Milk - 2 =5
S: Coffee x 2 = 4
L:Egg Salad Sandwich - 6, Half a pack of pizza pretzels -2=8
Thus Far: 17/23

I'll need to do something veggie heavy for supper since those have been lacking today, I also need to abandon the coffee and get some water.

I'm so excited that there's a new Ugly Betty tonight!

Baby Steps

Unscheduled interruption: One of my colleagues just told me she'd like to nominate me for What Not to Wear, I'm like WHAT!. She goes on to say that I must have a small wardrobe. Is this because perhaps she's seen me wearing this sweater before. I was gobsmacked.
My reply - I intend to lose another 30lbs, right now more things come out of my closet that are too big and I'm certainly not going to replace an entire wardrobe every 10lbs. I buy things as I need them. People, I'm wearing a sweater and dress pants perhaps not up to her Ralph Lauren ensemble but come on. Despite my delightful personality I do battle body image issues (who doesn't?) but I certainly didn't expect this from someone who didn't like how they looked in the photographs taken at Christmas.

I'm now insulted, I would love someone to give me $5000 bucks for new clothes but when I'm at goal because I will get there.

Rant over - the originally scheduled blog entry is below.
I shall now drink my frustrations away with water.


Alright so last night didn't exactly go as planned. As I mentioned there was a Starbucks whoops and then the rest of the day went perfectly to plan until I got home.

I stopped off at the mall to pick up a pack of cake mix. I have to bake yet another birthday cake for work and I'm trying something out of the Cake Mix Doctor. At any rate by the time I got home it was now 6pm ish and I was hungry. Being in a grocery store while hungry is never good. Hence I had McCain's fries for supper it's 3pts for 22 fries, I didn't count I just tossed on a pan so I'm counting it has 5, it could be less but better I go higher than lower.

Then I made the cake, the batter smelled just like home made I was impressed. Baked it according to directions after 30min took it out and did the touch test. Looked o.k, but when I went to take it out of the pan I discovered the middle wasn't done. Of course I had to try the edges to see if it actually tasted homemade...it did.

So tonight I do it again and this time I'll be very sure to use the toothpick test in the middle of the cake.

Alas today is a new day and one can always start back at step one.

Food Today:
Breakfast:
2 Slices WW Toast - 3
Light Margarine - 2
Cinnamon with a little sugar - 1
Coffee - 2
8/23

Lunch:
Chunky Soup with added veggies - 3
Yogurt - 2
12/23

Snack:
2Pt Bar Lemon Dream - 2
Apple - 1
15/23

Not sure what to have for supper but 8pts gives me a fair bit of wiggle room.
The challenge tonight will be to not over taste the strawberry buttercream icing.

The good news about my cake disaster of yesterday is that resulted in a very fast walk to Safeway and back bright and early this morning :)

Welcome to 2007!

First of all can I say how motivated I am by all this positivity on the weight loss focused blogs. I love it!
I'm so with you all, I did make progress over 2006 but my head was not completely in the games so as I said the other day that all changes.

Of course I didn't exactly go cold turkey but between watching Super Size Me, You are what you eat and You're Body Clock on t.v yesterday certainly offered some serious encouragement.

Lesson I re-learned this morning, never guess the points. Met a coworker at the front door of our office this morning and she asked if I wanted to go to Starbucks, I went and chose a Grande Skim Milk White Chocolate Mocha (guessing the points to be around 5), got back to the office and looked it up on their website...ah 7pts. The good thing is I can definitely plan my day around that.
Next time - A Grande Skim Milk Latte with Sugar Free Hazelnut - 3pts.
I forgot my tracker today but I think I should also write this stuff down as a handy reminder.
It's way to easy (especially if you've been doing WW for a while) to guess or estimate points. I'm going back to measuring things like cereal as that serving size can get bigger without you even realizing.

I'm also back to being accountable to the blog (very handy for days I forget my journal) so here's today's food run down anything in green means it's completed.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal - 2
Honey - 1
Milk - 2

A.M Snack: Grande Skim Milk White Chocolate Mocha - 7
Point used so far: 12/23

Lunch:
1/2 can Chunky Soup with added veggies - 3
Yogurt - 1
Points used so far: 16/23

P.M Snack:
Mint Chocolate Chip 2pt bar - 2
Points used so far: 18/23

Supper:
McCains Oven Fries - 5
Ketchup and FF Miracle Whip - 1
Handful of chocolate cake disaster - 5
Points: 29/23

I'm just so proud of all my blog friends, you will all be successfull I just know it.

Sniffles

My success at avoiding getting sick finally failed...oh well bring on the cold meds.
I hadn't planned anything for New Year's anyway so if this makes me stay in my pjs so be it.

I do hope everyone has a wonderful New Year and may we all complete our goals in 2007.

Ho Ho Ho - Oh Oh Oh

Hello All,
Well my Christmas festivities involved food and not the world's greatest choices by any sense of the imagination. Even when I got back to the city my decent into madness continued. Attempted to curtail it yesterday and did better but still not on plan. However today is a new day and I will be on plan.

I was inspired by Totegirl to come up with a few of my own plans and resolutions.

Since I've already declared I will hit goal this year this what I plan to do to get there.

1) Follow the plan as it's attended, no tweaks, no gimmicks. Stick to my points, use my flex and AP in accordance. Just not the tracking of the good, the bad and the ugly, I need to follow the entire plan..ie water, fruits, veggie, oils.

2) To create an exercise/training plan. I'll probably train with my friend for the Vancouver Half Marathon again, not so sure I'll go but I'll train. I'm also going to incorporate more strength training and keep myself interested by incorporating different types of cardio as well. Just ordered some new Ripped Dvds and the Biggest Loser 2. Quit the gym because it bored me to tears, plus I want to save some cash.

3) Embrace fish, I don't mind it but have to admit generally avoid it. I also want to create more menus I so get into ruts with food where it's the same thing time and time again.

4) Track my progress beyond the scale. I don't take my measurements very often and that can be a huge motivator when the scale isn't moving. Establish mini goals and rewards. Work on better self talk and track trends by journalling more often.

Do all the above with a positive mind set and remind myself I'm doing this for life and to not set unrealistic goals. If I see a gain this Saturday, then I'll suck it up and go on.

I will be the Biggest Loser!!!

Hair is better

So stylist phoned and said she'd have to charge me to fix it. I was like WHAT! She promised me copper highlights and they were mahogany, fire engine red. I told her any other stylist in this city would fix it for free. She said it's the company policy. Fine, I will never set foot in that salon again and I'll make sure everyone I know will know not to set foot in that place.

So Belle Colour #65 to the rescue and it's much better but I'm putting another box on just to seal the deal. The highlights now look a little burgundy but more brown.

Enough about hair drama.

I will for sure see a loss on Saturday which makes me quite happy, today I have to race home and clean it from top to bottom, well I have to finish my Christmas shopping first :) Only one gift so not so bad.

The blogs will probably be quiet over the next while but I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and happy 2007.

Here's to success for all in the New Year!

Ronald McDonald

Well that's what I thought I looked like this morning.
On a total whim last night I stopped in at this little salon in my local mall that's been there for 30 years. People are always going in and out so I thought I'll just see if they'll take a walk in for a cut because my hair has been driving me bonkers. Well I got the cut and highlights that the stylist described as a coppery red. Ah...it's red, to me- fire engine red. I didn't know what to think in the salon but everyone around was ooing and ahhing so I thought o.k I'll sleep on it. Well all of last night and this morning I had a continuous dialogue in my head of "I hate it". I thought everyone was looking at my head on my way to work. I get to work and everyone says "I love it", one collegue said it's sexy. Our receptionist who was at one time a stylist says it's awesome. To me it's way to bright. Everyone assured me that it will calm down, it's red afterall and that fades.

I did wash it the moment I got home because I thought it was way to0 bright so perhaps in a few days I'll feel better about it. I think another major hang up is that I'm seeing my Dad this weekend (provided my sniffles are gone by then - he's 84 I don't want to pass on a cold or anything) and he's a bit conservative. So as long as it looks good, I don't think I'll freak him out but I need to get over being freaked out first. I'm meeting TP tonight for coffee and she'll give me an honest opinion. I did call the salon and left a message for the stylist and when I told the person on the phone that I wasn't crazy about it and they said they'd have to charge me. I asked why since I was technically told they were copper highlights. She said then the stylist would have to absorb the cost. Oh well we'll see what she says when she calls me back tomorrow. Receptionist has now recommended an over the counter shade to tone it down if the stylist thing doesn't work out.

Weight wise I stepped on the scale this morning and it said 171 which is a bit miraculous since when I got home from Hawaii I stepped on the scale and it said 179. Just goes to show what an impact going back on plan can have. Of course today we have our Christmas potluck at work but I saved 16pts for that - well dinner needs to come out of that too and I have 12 flex points left for the week. I'm not planning on using all of those flex points today but if I use 16 on the potluck I'll need 2 flex for vegetable soup for supper.

I went up 1pt with the new plan to 23pts of course when I get back into the 160's that goes back to 22. I've abandoned the wendie plan for now and I'm going back to the traditional program and see how that goes. I like the new format of ww stuff but I think the 3mth journal needs to have more lines.

In Hawaii we picked up some WW goods that we didn't have in Canada at the time (not sure if new stuff has been launched). We got the individual serving drink crystals sweetened with splenda in Raspberry and Lemonade. I bought a few boxes of 2pt bars - Lemon Dream, milk chocalate chip, mint chocolate cookie. TP also bought the vanilla smoothie mix which we both agree isn't all that great - you're probably better off with making your own. Even the people in the meeting said you had to make it with milk and add fruit to make it palatable. I haven't tried the crystals or the bars yet but I'll report in when I do. Who knows Canada might have them.

DDD- I did tape BL but I'm not sure if I taped over it. I'll double check and get back to you.

Off to potluck might report back later.

7 Hours and 7 minutes

And I'm damn proud of that. This was the craziest race ever!

First of all arrived in Honolulu and got to condo with no problems whatsoever. Had dinner with training partners family and then TP, her Mom and I headed back to the condo and too bed.
Saturday- Picked up our race packs and toured the expo a bit. GU was there sampling some of their gels. The lime tastes just like key lime pie. Very obvious that out of the 25000 people signed up for this 16000 where Japanese. Their running clubs were well represented.

Mom and TP went off for Vietnamese but because that hadn't been a part of my training I went off on my own. Toured this gigantic mall called Ala Moana Centre. It's 55 sq miles, no Victoria Secret but they had a Sephora where I did a bit of damage. Unfortunately got blisters on my feet from my mary jane crocs...not a great start. Picked up some first aid and went to bed early.

Race day- Up at 2:30am, had breakfast, got dressed, taped the blisters and loaded the hydration packs and packed the fuel gels put the timing chip on runners. Headed out at 4:30am, got to start line and lined up under the 6hrs and over bannner. It was craziness. I took pictures that I'll post in the next few days.

It took 28min to actually cross the start line. At the 3 mile mark there were about 20 Japanese racers lined up at Jack in the Box....not sure why.

We had our best times up to the 20K mark and then we both hit a mall at about 30k. This race was crazy because you spent more time going around people then forward. When you think of it their were 1000 people for every mile. We probably did our slowest 12k ever but we crossed that finish line in one piece. Because the majority didn't speak English saying " on your left" was useless.

It was taxing, it was hot and people were throwing their used cups and sponges into the middle of the road so some areas were pretty slippery. We went up and down Diamond Head twice, first time fantastic, second time rough. There was a guy racing in a Yoda costume complete with rubber mask, one guy in flip flops with the timing chip strapped on. The guy that really got everyone's attention was racing in a Sumo training (diaper?). I saw a naked butt up a head and thought I was imaging things. The very last person crossed the finish line at 15hrs. Huge kudos to that guy.

We passed a load of runners and a lot of people who didn't look like they trained for this at all. I now know why they say don't aim for your best time at this race.

When the race was over it was like an obstacle course to find your finishing t-shirt. Your body is completely exhausted and now you have to navigate around a park trying not to trip on roots because you can't pick up your feet.

We had to take public transit back to the condo which wasn't too bad and then TP and I hit the living room floor and stayed their for 2 hours. I got a few more blisters and thought I had sprained my big toe, she had a swollen ankle and all of the muscles in our bodies ached. We pried off running shoes and ate real food (it will be awhile before I can look at a gel again). We both vowed never again.

The next day at Starbucks which we walked very slowly too and cursed any unlevel sidewalks and stairs (there were lots). Her Mom almost spit out her coffee when TP and I looked at each other and said ...next time. Mom was wicked race support lugging cheese and crackers, chocolate milk and gatorade to the finish line and finding both us in sorry shape. She just rocks.

For the next 5 days we couldn't go far, I'm not kidding it didn't take much to make you hurt again. On the Tuesday we went for massages at the Aveda spa and of course they said they couldn't do deep tissue massage because our bodies were simply not ready. We knew this of course but even a gentle massage helped. It takes 21 days to recover from a Marathon so we're both taking it easy.

We did attend a WW meeting at the YWCA in Honolulu. They have a great leader! We picked up some bars that we don't have or didn't have when we left and we got the new booklets about the tweaked program. I'm still going to try to get a set from my meeting on Saturday to see if US and Canada differ. Oh yeah the weigh in results were very interesting. I was up 6.8 and TP was up 10. We know we were retaining water and of course weighed in at the end of the day. So know the mission is to be back on track.

Suprisingly when we got home we both felt better, probably because neither one of us did much on the Saturday...got home at 2am.

Spent the last two days not doing too much, trying to fend off a flu that TP came down with in the last 3 days of Honolulu. We watched a lot of season 2 of Top Chef :) I have been back on points for the past two days.

This weekend off to visit Dad for Christmas, which will be interesting he was completely opposed to Hawaii and we've had a bit of a rough patch lately. This will be the first time I've laid eyes on him in over 2 months.

Back to work tomorrow of course.

I haven't read anyone's blogs yet but I'm looking forward to catching up.

Sonya- Did you have the baby?

Hugs to all!

One Sleep!!!!!

Holy Crap! At this time tomorrow I'll be at the airport waiting to board my plane...craziness so much to do before hand. I'm now second guessing myself of do I really need to bring that and that and that?

Well hard core packing will be tonight. I'm hoping I can pre call a cab for the morning. Apparently we have a cab shortage thanks to a short employee market and Christmas party season. I don't think it will be a problem at 6:30am, coming home on the 16th just after midnight might be.

Called the condo people yesterday and apparently I call them when I get to the airport and they'll meet we there with the key. My training partner is already in Hawaii so she'll have to do the same thing. I'm really hoping there's two keys and that I don't have to wait for her when I get there. If there's only one key this will not be fun. I'm kind of hoping to be there first. Just because I'm a worst case scenario thinker, I checked into hotels, not one room is available until the Monday. Oy vey, I'm hoping not to be homeless in Hawaii.

I'm going to try these no jet lag things that my dear friend Glitterati recommended, it's got great testimonials and will hopefully keep my energy level up. I'm so used to just getting off the plane and going to the hotel not this coordinating business.

Weighed in this morning at 7:15am, yes I was up at 5am. Was up 0.2 but I'm not worried about it. I'm going to Hawaii tomorrow after all. I will be at my meeting on the day I get back because I don't want to miss a beat. Toronto in June!

If anyone is up around 8am MST time on Sunday - send me speedy thoughts!

2 Sleeps

1. Yourself: Myself
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (spouse): Nada
3. Your hair: Undecided
4. Your mother: Deceased
5. Your father: Stubborn
6. Your Favorite Item: MP3
7. Your dream last night: Hawaii
8. Your Favorite drink: Bailey's
9. Your Dream Car: BMW
10. The room you are in: Office
11. Your Ex: Moron
12. Your fear: Poverty
13. What you want to be in 10 years? Me
14. Who you hung out with last night? Me
15. What You're Not? Patient
16. Muffins: Lemon_Poppyseed?
17. One of Your Wish List Items: Car
18. Time: Early
19. The Last Thing You Did: Typed
20. What You Are Wearing: Clothes
21. Your Favorite Weather: Fall
22. Your Favorite Book: Many
23. The Last Thing You Ate: Waffles
24. Your Life: Busy
25. Your Mood: Hopeful
26. Your best friend: Plural
27. What are you thinking about right now? Packing
28. Your car: Nada
29. What are you doing at the moment? Typing
30. Your summer: Short
31. Your relationship status: Single
32. What is on your TV? Off
33. What is the weather like? Chinook!
34. When is the last time you laughed? Today


Thanks to Sonya for that list, quite fun to do.
Not much to report today, weigh in is tomorrow.

3 Sleeps

Thanks so much to Glitterati for answering my questions - The garmin is smaller than an Ipod Nano for you to file in your head of phenomenal information.

I actually sat down and made a list of all the things I need to get done before I leave, time will fly I know it. Started using the hint of tanner lotions yesterday so hopefully I won't the colour of snow when I get there. Looked for yoga/track pants last night and nothing really worked. I'm either flying in a sort of faded pair I have now, fleece pants or I can hit a Sport Chek before I leave. I'm probably going to check sport chek.

Going out to a client lunch today at a fairly shwanky restaurant. I might go for the buffet because then I can control what's on the plate. I have 14pts for the remainder of the day so I know I can make that work. I'll definitly be careful, stepped on the scale this am and it said 170.5, which would be a pound less at WI, so I'm not rocking the boat.

I'll have to wait until I come back to find out about the new plan. I'm intrigued as to how WW will change it.

Questions

Has anyone flown internationaly lately or Canada-USA or reverse?

I want to be clear on all this new hullabaloo that you have to go through. So I get the liquids under 100ml only in carry on and they must be in a resealable plastic bag no bigger than 1L. Should I put my prescription in the same bag (I'm only taking BC pills and my name and all the doctor info is on the package)? Since they'll probably want to know that.

I'm also thinking of putting all my electronics (MP3, camera, garmin, cell phone) in one bag in my carry on so it's easy to pull out and put in the tray. I want to make everything easily searchable so I can speed the process along. I'm taking my backpack as carry on and I can zip that thing open all the way along the front so I'll be their dream traveller. I was going to wear jeans on the plane, now I'm thinking track pants or yoga pants.

Do you lock your suitcase or not? Normally I lock but with all the searching going on maybe I should leave it unlocked and pray to the divinities of transport that no one takes anything. The last time I flew through the U.S I had to wait for my bag to screen because it was locked, it it wasn't locked you could just walk away. Now I think they just cut the lock off.

I'm trying to be as organized as humanly possible - 4 sleeps until I'm on a plane...eek! Yeah so I'm obsessing about it but that's my thing I need to be prepared. It's already freaking me out that I'm staying in a Condo that I had nothing to do with. I get to call a couple of days ahead and find out how to get in. I have no idea when my friend and her mom will be there. I'm definitely thinking of this as a solo trip with roommates.

So far I have 76 songs on the mp3 and I'm listening to it on my travels to and from work so I can weed out the not so get up and go songs and perfect my list. I'll be adding more so I only have to listen to the loop twice then I'll know I'm half way done.

I'm so happy I finally figured out the plug n'play problem. I downloaded all the info off my garmin too and it's pretty neat.

Didn't really go for a walk yesterday (got a paper) I was just zipping around the house doing chores. It's supposed to be pretty warm on Thursday and I'm taking the afternoon off so I'll think I'll do an easy 10k and test the hydration pack plus it will be daylight. Tonight I think step aerobics (it's walking ish).

Food wise the goal is 24pts today so far:
2 Eggo Fibre Waffles - 3
Becel Spray-0
Light Aunt J Syrop - 1
Milk-2
2xCoffee-4
Source yogurt-1
Burger and Fries at Pub - 13

Which would take me down to nothing, so a workout is definitely in order tonight. I should eat pasta for dinner because one is supposed to carb load for a week ahead not just the day ahead. By carb load I don't mean gobs of pasta just pay attention to the ratios.

Finally!

I finally figured out what was wrong with my computer and it not being able to read my new mp3 player. Plug n' play wasn't enabled...oy vey for months I've been trying to upload photos using the dock, the camera, a scan thingy and tada I got it done today. Plus I loaded a whack of songs on to my Sansung Mp. (that's red and has a Canadian flag on it). I only have it half loaded simply because I need to rip more songs. Well I have a few days to think of more tunes.

Let me ask all of you...I need fast paced, go go go songs for my marathon...any suggestions?

I stayed exactly the same at weigh in, which in itself is a bit of a miracle. This week I have to weigh in either bright and early (7:30am) or late in the day (6:30pm) on Thursday. I'm going to get up earlier and go to the early one. I'm leaving work at 1pm that day so I can pack and get sorted for leaving the next day.

Training partner left today and is probably about half way there by now. I'm really hoping it doesn't rain during the race. I raced in rain for my half marathon and it's not fun. This time it's double the distance so I really don't want to be a drowned rat by the end with water gushing out of the shoelace holes on your runners.

Yesterday was treat day food wise, today is 22pts and so far so good. Yesterday I walked everywhere to run errands so that was good exercise.

Just a quick post today, must do laundry and I should go for a walk today since the weather isn't so bad.

Later!

New week in 24 hours

My training partner is off to Hawaii on Sunday and I must admit I'm a bit jealous. I know that I'll now be there in not time whatsoever but there's something magical about leaving snow covered terrain for ocean and palm trees.

Supper was interesting yesterday, I didn't feel like cooking so I cut up a tomatoe, a bit of red onion, a bit of cheddar cheese and topped it with balsamic vinegar. It was alright, a bit odd but alright. I also whipped the cream for the cheesecake and topped it with crushed candy canes and grated white chocolate. Everyone loved it.

The supper thing got me thinking how there's no cookbooks geared at single people. Everything either serves 2 or more. The kraft canada website has a neat feature of one week menus and you can print off a shopping list. Most of the recipes aren't too ww friendly but all of them serve 4. But imagine if it were WW friendly and you could choose how many servings. I should copyright this idea.

I'm happy it's Friday and a new week is about to start. I need a clean start.

I'm also going to start getting organized for Hawaii, start packing what I don't need now so the day before I leave won't be chaotic. Tomorrow I'm grabbing the bulk of what I need (fuel gels and such) so the running around is limited. Not

The Food:
Breakfast
2 Eggo Fibre Waffles - 3
Becel Spray - 0
Wee bit of light syrup- 1
Milk-2
Coffee-2
Lunch
Sukiyaki Beef (with rice and sprouts)-7
Snack
Small piece of my fabulous cheesecake - 5
Supper


Subtotal:20/22
Yeah, well supper will probably be soup and I'll bediligently trying to distract myself from eating anything else while drinking lots of water.

Water: 1/3L

Exercise: Trying on all my summer clothes to see what fits, including the bathing suit...eek!

A.M Scale: 172

Day one not so good - Day two not so great either

Alas I failed to stay within in 22pts yesterday. As I said in my post script I think it has do to with a lack of protein and lack of time management.

I got a ride to the mall after work yesterday and it took longer than if I had taken the bus. My stomach started to grumble at 4pm, got to the mall just before 6. Went to Walmart and it was insane. 3 Cashiers open and an average of 8 carts in each line. I thought forget it and went to Safeway instead. Picked up what I needed for the cheesecake, plus hummous and pita so I could have a fast supper. Turkey bites were on sale which made me happy. Next bus came at just before 7pm so I stopped at Starbucks for a peppermint mocha, got it with skim but said yes to whip cream.

Turns out the 6:30 bus was running late, came at 6:45 and saved me from waiting for an extra 15min.

Got home ate the pita and hummous then made the cheescake and to stop me from eating batter I had the after eights. It's a White Chocoalate Peppermint cheesecake.

It could have been worse I suppose, but I am a bit disappointed in myself.

I'm shaking it off and focusing on a new day. l

The Food:
5:45 am
Oatmeal - 2
Brown Sugar- 1
Milk-2
Coffee-2
10:00 am
Yogurt - 2
Lunch
Perogies (weird perogies made with a samosa type dough) - 5(?)
Farmer's sausage -4(?)
Fried onion-2(?)
Sour Cream-3
Supper
Tomaote - 0
2 Turkey Bites- 2
Cheddar Cheese - 2
Red onion- 0
Pudding-2
So far : 29/22


Apparently I'm seriously into carb loading. I couldn't resist...I love perogies. This week is going to H, E , Double hockey sticks in a hand basket. Right now I can have tomatoes for supper or do as I intend and do the workout and have 2pt soup for supper. That's if I guessed the points right, it could be higher.

I will not let this day fall apart

Water: 2/3L
Need to stay focused on this. On my way to fill my 1l water bottle up again.

Exercise: DVD-Biggest Loser

A.M Scale: 173 (EEK!)

I will do well today!!!!

Why wait

First weather news- Warming up today to a high of -15, that's a 25 degree difference from this morning...craziness.

I was thinking about what I wrote yesterday about how I wanted to start being accountable after my marathon and then I thought...why wait.

Points wise has been a disaster this week so far including yesterday. My goal for the remainder of this week is to stick to 22pts per day. Saturday will be a new week.

I also came to the realization of how many workout dvds I own this weekend. As I was setting up my Christmas stuff I put them all together. Wowsers - I should technically be ripped if I actually did all these things.

So enough is enough. My goal is to be at goal no later than my Birthday (June 3). That gives me 6 months to lose the 30lbs for WW and maybe an extra 10lb for my own personal goal. I'm really not basing that on any thing other than a BMI chart. I'll get to the 30lbs and then see.
So after Honolulu I'll add a tracker for June 3rd. My reward will be a trip to Toronto do some shopping.

So here we go: I'm tracking the food, the water, the exercise and because I'm a daily weigher, my morning weigh in.

The Food:
5:30am
2 Eggo Fibre Waffles - 3
Becel spray-0
Light sour cherry jam 1tbsp - 1
1% Milk - 2
Coffee-2
Jeuness Yogurt-2
10:30am
Apple - 1
12:00pm
Lentil Soup - 3
Jeunesse Yogurt- 2
Bag of pretzels-2 (Got point from Dottie's will double check when I get home)
3:00pm
Fruit Salad -1
6:30pm
Tall Mocha with Whip - 6
7:15pm
2 whole wheat pitas - 4
Hummous - 3
After Eights- 2
Results 32/22

Water: 1.5/3L

Exercise: NADA

A.M Scale: 172

I will come back during the day to update this list so that I can have a record of what I've accomplished.

Onwards and downwards :)

P.S What went wrong: One-serious lack of protein yesterday, I was hungry again by 4pm and then hit the mall to buy ingredients for a cheescake. Had to make the cheesecake that took until 8pm and then watched America's Next Top Model.
Major Achievement- While watching Biggest Loser I almost grabbed a pudding snack and then asked myself why I needed it and then put it back.

Chill continues

Apparently it gets warmer after today so that's good news.
Last night it took me an hour and 45 minutes to get home, normally 40min tops. Buses were just not showing up, traffic was bumper to bumper. Amazingly enough I was relatively calm about it but when I got home I was an eating machine.

I don't know if it was because I hadn't eaten anything since noon or if it was the extended amount of time in the freezing temperature but it was ridiculous. It was continuous snacking. Of course by the time I got home I was tired and hungry so no workout happened. Though I did get a semi decent (30min) walk in via the indoor pedestrian walk ways during the day.

Today I'm going to space out my food a bit and make sure I get an afternoon snack in case it's the same adventure getting home tonight.

This weekend I need to get semi sorted for Hawaii, I don't want to leave everything to last minute so that means picking up fuel gels and anything else I can think of.

I also need to focus on water, I haven't been getting enough lately.

I have a confession to make - I'm addicted to tracking things. I adore spreadsheets and data. Because of this I have a notebook dedicated to tracking my WW details like total pounds, total pounds lost, weekly points, weekly activity points. I was adding new dates to this tracking sheet where I realized that's I've lost about 2lbs in the last 4 months. I'm not discouraged by this but it does make me realize that I'm probably not following the program to the best of my ability.

I am a slow loser but this is ridiculous. I get absorbed by the weekly plus and minuses that I don't look at the bigger picture. I'm proud of my accomplishments so far but I want to get to goal.

When I get back from my marathon I'm going change the focus of my blog a bit and highlight the goals of the program. Be accountable for my water, my fruits & veggies, my milk intake and my activity. Take my tracking obsession on to the blog to find out what works and doesn't work so I can finally get to goal.

-40 with windchill

I love my city, really I do. I love how we can have +35 in the summer and -35 in the winter. It makes us a strong people and the owners of mutliple jackets and layers.

I wore a light pair of long johns under my dress pants and I could still feel the wind. If it's like this tomorrow I'm wearing the thermal tights.

I walked to weight watchers in -37 on Saturday and I swore I should have lost 2lbs by the time I got there. I had layers on and I was trucking fast. In the end I was up 0.2, which is a victory since I should have been up around 2lbs.

Activity continues to be a challenge due to the weather conditions, can't go outside. Not crazy about going to the gym in this weather either. Buses are typically unreliable and I don't want to be stuck downtown in -40. So I'll head directly home and I will plunk in a dvd!

This means that marathon training has been seriously off kilter for the last week so I need to do something this week. I'm tapering know any way but tapering does not mean doing nada. So I can use dvds for 30min-50min trainings. I couldn't really simulate the 16km this Sunday so I put up my tree and went up and down stairs multiple times by carrying only one thing at a time and doing laundry so that was at least 8 trips, still doesn't equal 16k but better than nothing.

Points wise - tough weekend just due to boredom. There was nothing on tv and too cold to go to the video store. I tried to keep busy but I could have controlled the snacking.

I can't believe I'll be in Honolulu soon, time is going so fast. My training partner heads over in less than a week. I started my pack list yesterday. I also need to find someway to test my hydration pack, it's supposed to get warmer over the next few days but if it doesn't I might just wear it around the house.

I'm still need to ask my neighbour if they'll shovel my sidewalk while I'm away.

My home computer is being stupid, it refuses to recognize anything I plug into a usb port so camera dock, scan disk and Sansung Mp3 player are doing nada. It still recognizes my rio MP3 so it looks like that one will be going to the marathon if I can't get the other to work. Less play time on it but I can always have an extra AAA battery on me.

Well that's my news for today - Hope everyone has a fantastic day!!!
If you're in Alberta - Bundle up!

Snow!

And loads of it. It's nice fluffy snow that wasn't a total pain to shovel very early this morning. However it's causing massive problems on the roads, as it usually does.

My MEC stuff is finally in (of course on one of the coldest days so far). I might head over at lunch to pick it up or a little after. Not sure when I'll have an opportunity to try the hydration pack outside, it definitely won't be in -20 windchill.

Food wise was slightly better last night and the weird part is I'm now down 2lbs from what I weighed at the beginning of this week, but exercise continues to be non existent.

My big plan to go the gym on Saturday is quickly dimishing. Expected day time high -23 and buses not going peak. I'll be walking to WI anyway and then probably take a cab home with groceries. I think I might do a massive cleaning of my house including shampooing the carpets. So that will involve moving furniture and probably take the same amount of time as walking 16k.

I only shovelled my walk this morning but last night I also did my neighbours and tonight when I get home I might shovel for some other neighbours. It's good activity and strength training.

A bit disapointed that Biggest Loser wasn't on last night. It's interesting that one of the twins went home on ANTM.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Musings

Very random thoughts today...prepare yourselves :)

Fish shopping went well, my co-worker now has 3 new members of a family for the fish bowl. Some small orange fish, another fish that I think has tiger in it's name and a snail. The snail cleans the algae and apparently can escape from the bowl...don't know how I feel about that part. The tiger fish continues to hide under pebbles, the occasional swish of a tail makes it appear he's still with us.

Dropped by the gym today to pick up an access card so I can make an appearance on Saturday. I haven't been there in months due to marathon training and being outside for the most part. Well the -20 windchill forecasted for today encouraged me to re-familiarize myself with their location. Also got a letter in the mail saying if I sign up for another two years it's $49/mth which makes that one heck of a deal for the downtown core. They're not a fancy gym, no pool...but they have the basics and it's a more corporate environment so no hard body gung ho type people. I'm supposed to do 16k on Sunday but with an estimated daily high of -22 (that's without wind chill) it's not happening outside. So I thought I'd hit the treadmill on Saturday at the gym and continue my training days there until or if the weather gets better. That means loading up some serious tunes on the MP3 because that's a long time on the treadmill. Put the tv on the food network and go!

Saw a bit of clip from the music awards last night. It was of Britney Spears, so she's at the podium and smacking gum...that totally bugged me. You're on camera being seen by millions upon millions of people and you're chewing gum...oy vey.

Gilmour Girls was alright, I have a feeling it will just be alright until the series ends.

Looking forward to ANTM and Biggest Loser tonight.

The scale showed a pound less today...bizarre since exercise continues to be a struggle and eating was alright. We shall see. I'm hoping to burn off energy going to weigh in on Saturday dressed like the abominable snowman :)

High of minus 20

Apparently winter is on it's way with a vengance. Today high of 4 but by Friday a high of -20. Egads, it's not like this is foreign to me but we've had it so easy lately weather wise.

I ordered winter boots from Land's End (They're red) and they arrived yesterday thank goodness.

Got home last night and made the leek soup added loads of fresh leek and asperagus and then I ate it by dipping calabrese bread into it....almost WW friendly. Finished it off with light ice cream. Yup...snack a palooza has arrived.

Stepped on the scale this morning and I'm up 4lbs...I'm definitely retaining water and boy was that motivation to get into gear. Brought snacks with me (apple and grape tomatoes) have the day planned to the point. Must run errands tonight (want to do it before -20). Depending on energy level will squeeze in a workout.

Got roped in to go fish shopping later, my co-worker wants to buy a replacement to sit on her desk. The last one apparently lived for 3 years (a tetra). He met his unfortunate end when she knocked the part of her desk that wasn't attached. Bowl hit the floor and their were 4 of us looking for poor Peewee until we discovered him under my coworkers shoe. Yes, she stepped on him. At least it was quick.

The closest fish store is on the seedy side of downtown so we get to got today at lunch, I could say no but the store is tucked away and she's never been there before so I feel obliged to go with her. Oy what a day!

Looking forward to Gilmour Girls tonight.

Get up and go, got up and went

A whole lot of people dragging themselves around today, it's like no one has any energy myself included.
I'm a bit sore from yesterday and realized this morning that this will be the week of snack a palooza if I'm not careful. Good start today grabbed a 1/2 rice cripsy bar and 1/2 puffed wheat square doo hickey and chocolate milk as my afternoon snack...that's not the good part. Good news is it's leek soup for supper so I'll still finish within points.

Should work out when I get home, not sure what to do. I find the walking in the dark alone in the evening kind of freaky, in the morning I don't have a problem.

It might be a dvd of some sort this evening then, cardio pumping Biggest Loser workout I'm thinking. Love those jumping jacks.

Not too bad

Up .4 at weigh in, I don't think that's too bad after two weeks of no accountability.

I attemped the 32K today and topped out at 22k, the winds were horrendous and after getting smacked in the face with leaves and watching my pace time diminish as I headed straight into the wind I called it a day. I haven't exactly been keeping up with the training over the last 10 days and I felt it today. 0 to 32k is not terribly wise. I will stick to the training plan like glue up until the race however.

Called training partner and said "What the heck am I doing", she said relax - walking by yourself on the streets of Calgary and walking with 25000 other people all hyped up about the marathon are two different things. Ain't adrenaline grand?

The weekend is here

And boy will I be busy.
Saturday - serious running around all over the city. I live in the west end must go to the far east end to get to a Superstore. There is one closer but it will take 3 buses to get there, I'm going all the way east because it's one bus and one train...way faster. Then it's all the back to the north so I can hit the German deli and stock up on Mozart chocolates..not necessarily wise but only available at Christmas. Then I must do laundry and any activity in my house that involves moving because then it's Sunday.

Sunday- 32K day..I'm freaking out a bit. The hydration pack I ordered still isn't here, I'm not sure what route to take and I'm really hoping I can move afterwards.

Last night I had dinner with my training partner and another friend of ours who did the half marathon with us. She asked us if we were looking forward to it and we both said it was more nervous.

Dinner was good not exactly points friendly. Started with Edamame (first time trying it), Sante Fe Chicken Salad dressing on the side, and then a Espresso Gelato cake....yummy.

Today it's been water, water, water and no snacking today as a result of last nights dinner.

Wish me luck at weigh in :)

More upbeat post today

I just re-read what I wrote yesterday and I didn't mean for it to be so somber...sorry about that.
I did talk to my Dad last night and now the theory of the banging is air in the water pipes.

OMG I watched Biggest Loser last night and I was so impressed by Marty's progress. I always thought he was a cutey patootey but wowza he looks totally different in the after shot. It always amazes me how people look younger after losing weight.

Adrian's little tantrum completely irritated me. Though I've never really rooted for Kai, I thought her efforts through the challenge was amazing.

I always get such a renewed inspiration after watching that show. There's only two episodes left and I think it's anybody's game as to who will win.

Must know go figure out the points of Earl's offerings, going out to dinner with a friend tonight.

A Bang

Got woken up by a banging sound this morning at 4am, well actually two bangs exactly. Sounded like something falling into the tub or metal expanding. Checked all over the house this morning and could find no evidence of what caused the banging. I suppose it could have been the vent from the furnace as it went from cold to warm overnight. It didn't sound like anything breaking or exploding thankfully.

Everytime I hear a noise like that in the house it makes me think of what my father has told me in the past. Everytime a close relative passed away he would hear 3 destinct knocks in his house or more like a popping sound. One on the west side, one in the middle and one on the east side and they he knew someone had come to say good-bye. Sure enough, immediately after that he would get an announcement in the mail or a phone call. Now of course that has me thinking that when he passes he will bang on my house. When I heard those noises last night I immediately thought of that and then realized there were only two and coming from the same spot. Of course I'm scheduled to talk to Dad tonight and you can bet I'll be a bit nervous until he actually picks up the phone. I think I'd know if something happened to him, the day my Mother passed I woke up that day and knew. A psychic once told me I was intuitive...too bad it wasn't completely psychic because that would just be neat

I really want to pick up Deepak Chopra's new book "The Burden Of Proof", I think I have death on my mind due to one of my co-workers who just lost their Father and it was quite sudden. It really hits home that you can go at anytime. I don't think we all realize just how precious life is.

Cookie Season

I was ambushed this morning by egg nog cookies, you don't understand....egg nog + cookie...my kryptonite. This brought me to the realization that Christmas is upon us and the sugar binge begins.
At this time of year there has always been a meeting around what your goals are for the Festive season. Typically my leader gives us something you can carry around with you. Last year it was a piece of gift wrap ribbon. Green representing that you want to lose, yellow representing that your goal is to maintain and red represents you'll face the consequences.

I always choose green, in fact that green ribbon is taped to my computer monitor.

That really got me thinking today about what seems to be a lack of will power lately. I don't know if it's weather related, or the fact that I didn't weigh in last week or the Christmas goodies that are popping it up everywhere. One major realization is that it is way too easy to fall into old patterns. The other important thing is to handle any goal on a day to day basis. So I will be choosing green this season.

Last night I got home after having a rather tense day with a coworker and had no desire to work out whatsoever, instead I made a veggie stew with gnocchi (0pts with the exception of the gnocchi). I topped that off with treats, I could have skipped the treats part but there was definitely some emotional eating in there.

I will not let this derail me, but rather make me focus on the here and now.

It's going to be a quiet day

On my way into work I noticed way less people on the bus, many coffee places closed, dark office buildings. It looks like it's going to be a quiet day.

Well after the points debacle of Saturday, I did keep it together on Sunday. Now I just need to keep it together for the rest of the week. I'm just going to take it day by day. I'm going to do the Biggest Loser Cardio (Low impact) today. We're supposed to get snow and there's still ice out there so walking outside might not be that well advised.

Yesterday I did about 35min of the Core Secrets workout, I didn't finish but went as far as I could. It's not that I couldn't physically do it, I was limited space wise and just got annoyed. I will do some sort of workout every night this week, I really want to see a loss at the scale on Saturday. It will have been two weeks since weighing in.

Do I ever have to be diligent starting now, all the brochures with Christmas goodies are very very tempting. That really made me realize how easy it is to fall into old patterns.

Watched The Biggest Loser on the weekend, ran out and bought the sugar free jello they were pitching. 11 of those suckers add up to one serving on low fat ice cream. Of course I have low fat ice cream in the fridge but now I will have it in a tea cup to get the appropriate serving size.
The new girl irritates me a bit with all her complaining but it did highlight a good point. It's really easy to stick to certain behaviours if they work for you in the short term.

Training partner is working evenings and has made plans with a friend on Wednesday. She leaves on Dec. 3. I'm hoping she has a relaxing week in Hawaii before I get there. She's a bit stressed lately. I really don't know if we'll doing much together in Hawaii, I think she wants to sit on the beach for a week and since I'm only there for a week and having had a melanoma scare, I'm not all that into sitting on the beach for a week. I need to do some shopping.

Sonya-I fly in two days before the marathon and come back 5 days after. To even get on a plane a few days after and have to sit for 7hrs would be horrible on the poor muscles.

I hope everyone has a great day and I'm really inspired by many people's renewed enthusiasm.

Did I say stay diligent? Just got roped into a Tim Horton's Run...egad. Oh well, I can be diligent for the rest of the day. (Did do a pretty speedy walk there and back)

Evil comment invasion

Here I was thinking wow 8 comments on my blog, then I discovered no it was a stupid ad that repeated multiple times. Oh yeah, well now there's word verification...take that you evil ad spammers.

On to other news, so blew the points today. Went to Peter's Drive Inn for lunch and it was good. I'll be back to good tomorrow. I'll get a good walk in as I need to go to the library anyway. I do hope it warms up a bit. Today there was a bitter wind chill.

I picked up a load of veggies today so I'm looking forward to creating something with them. Also went to the German deli and picked up a bit of chocolate that I'll save for Christmas, in addition found a light jam made of sour cherries so that was a step in the right direction. I find north american reduced sugar jams to have no flavour. This one is excellent.

Not much to talk about today.
Tomorrow is day 1 of a new week!

OMG, my tracker is now into days until Hawaii...eek!

Calm before the storm?

So conversation with Dad was quite normal, we talk again tonight. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop with him. He can let things go and then out of nowhere they'll be brought up again. Sometimes he just lets it go and never mentions it again.

Oh well, I'll just have to wait and see.

The fates are conspiring against me in terms of weighing in this week. I was going to go Thursday night and then my city was covered in freezing rain and wet snow on top. If you listened closely you could here the "WEEEEE" of people slipping on the ice. I decided to just go straight home after work instead due to the irratic bus service in this type of weather.
I also considered going Thursday at lunch but then had a meeting that went late and I missed it. Then I was going to go today at lunch and forgot my weigh in book at home.
I'll just have to surrender two coupons next Saturday.

The trouble is now that I know I'm not weighing in this week...I really want a danish. I know I could have a danish and adjust my lunch and dinner accordingly but I don't know if this danish will lead me down a dangerous path. The power of pastry I tell ya.

I'm also finding it difficult to workout this week with the verstunken weather. The ice kills the opportunities to walk outside (I don't want to hurt myself before Hawaii). By the time I get home I don't even want to think about it. I think I need to leave workout clothes in the foyer.

All the christmas flyers are walking my fingers want to open the wallet. Got the Sephora catalogue yesterday and they had this makeup palette with 64 eyeshadows and etc. The desire to purchase was high, but I know that these things never work. 1-No one needs 64 eyeshadows, 2-the odds of all the colours actually working for you...minimal. I have to keep chanting 4 weeks until Hawaii.

I actually felt Christmas spiritish the other day. Now this is unnatural for me. I spent more than a decade in retail, in a store that did 50% of it's sales during Christmas. Christmas was war for me, get the troops and supplies ready. Get ready to deal with really grumpy people.
Now I've been out of retail for about 3.5 years now and it's just now that I feel Christmas like. Very, very weird especially because it's only the beginning of November. I've always been a strong believer that nothing Christmas like should be in a store until after today. Not the day after Halloween or 3 weeks before Halloween. I'll have to keep an eye on this.

Have a great day everybody!

Rough night

It was rough day, I was super tired all day and have no idea why. I ditched the lunch I brought (no yolk noodles with veggies) in the interest of seeking out protein and had an egg salad on brown bread. (There wasn't a lot of egg salad on it so not so bad) and a C2 coke. After that I had a bit more energy, I'm wondering if it was the protein or the caffeine that got me going.

I did have a cup of coffee in the morning and another around 10:30am and just couldn't shake it, but after lunch I was fine.

The evening was tough, went to Mec and they didn't have what I was looking for, went home, got there just in time for Gilmore Girls. Didn't feel like cooking so I popped in a Ginger Chicken Lean Cuisine, thought it was gross and tossed it. Then had a Lean Cuisine Roasted Veggie Pizza instead, then some peach slices with Source Vanilla Yogurt and then some cheese and then some Pastrami. I just started grazing.

I think I need to revamp my typical menu and start having more protein in the morning. Right now it's one piece of toast (Squirrely Bread 1pt) and Nutella. I also have a glass of milk and coffee but with the cold weather coming I need to arm myself against the comfort snacking phenomena that often hits. I definitely need to keep it together today because I'm weighing in Thursday night.

Made caramel cheesecake bars to bring to the staff meeting today and that went well. I let the staff who don't typically attend the meeting in on the bars and they've told me they're really good. I'm hoping every last one gets eaten so there are no left overs.

Tonight I speak to my father...hmmm let's see if it's a lecture or civil. Of course if it's civil, there could be a lecture when/if he comes into the city this weekend. Why do parents have to be so complicated when you're an adult.

Oh well, I'm focusing on the positive today and will try not to think about it.
Must get started on the water...have a great day.

Today I'm sore

Very weird weather yesterday, apparently a cold front was coming from the North and a warm front from the South and it split my city right in the middle. The weather guy actually said some can expect a high of 12 and some a high of 0.

My part was definitely zero and interesting ice chips/snow ish flakes in the evening. Today high of 15. We have a saying, if you don't like the weather just wait 10min.

Training partner and I did our 50min yesterday, well actually 45min for the loop we did but it does take a 10min walk to meet up with her. We had good speed too which seemed a little weird after our efforts the day before.

I stayed perfectly on plan yesterday, had enough point for supper to try the Smart Ones Fettucini Alfredo and the Chocolate Cake.

I really enjoyed the Fettucini, though next time I'll add more veggies. It's 6pts which a few of the people in my meeting were complaining about, my theory is that's the same as the Lean Cuisine Roasted Veggie Pizza. Sodium content on the Smart Ones is a bit high so make sure you drink your water.

The chocolate cake got rave reviews in my meeting and I thought it was alright. It's good don't get me wrong I'm just not that much of a chocolate cake fan.

Apparently this week is a 2hr Biggest Loser and of course my TV Guide says it's one hour. So I went to the NBC website to check the times. I did look under Mountain which is my timezone and it says 7pm. It also says 7pm for Central time and 8pm for Pacific. But Pacific is an hour behind Mountain Time. Confusing I tell you. Central is normally an hour ahead of Mountain. So I guess I need to start checking it out by 6pm my time just to make sure I don't miss it.

Heading to MEC after work today to check out hydration packs.

Hope everyone has OP day!

Not to sore

I survived the 29km! I have to admit at about the 26km mark I would have been quite happy to lay down and die on a park bench.
The paths were snow packed in many parts on the way out (great workout for your abs and ankles as you try to stay steady) and on the way back slushy and icy (again great for abs and ankles). That 29km probably turned into more exertion just thanks to the path conditions. As training partner and I kept saying "there won't be snow in Hawaii".
Suprisingly I got up today without too much difficulty but of course the longer I sit the more I can feel it.
Alea- These super long distances are done on Sunday mornings. I never get to sleep in Weigh in on Saturday and training on Sunday.
Next week will be 13km on Sunday and the week after 32km. It appears I have to do the 32 on my own. Training partner has wonky schedule that week. This I need to plan carefully, that would take about 6hrs. So I think I'll try to figure out a 10k loop in my neighbourhood and do it 3 times so that I can stop at my house for bathroom breaks and water refills. I don't want to be on the pathway in the middle of nowhere by myself. I'm o.k with my neighbours thinking I'm crazy as I walk past there house multiple times.

Received a lovely lecture from my father (who has the ability to make me feel 13) on the Hawaii thing. He thinks any trip is a waste of money. He asked what would you do if you lost your job tomorrow. Duh..get another one, not too difficult in my short labour market city plus I'm typically a dream employee (come in early, go above and beyond, stay late). I appreciate that he worries, but sometimes it drives me bonkers when he doesn't realize I'm smarter than that. When we have conversations like that it actually makes me dread talking to him, which is awful I know. I just want him to be proud of me.

Oy vey, not a great way to start the week but I'm setting it aside and focusing on what needs to be focused on.

Day is planned point wise, 50min is the goal tonight for walking.

My meeting is closed this Saturday which causes a few wrinkles into my WI rituals. I know have to WI Thursday night so that means no food after lunch and I'm bringing my WI clothes.

Here's to everyone having a great week!

Back on Track

Well I was pleasantly surprised at Weigh in this morning, down 1.6 which is exactly what I was up last week. This past week was rough so I'm quite happy.

Went grocery shopping afterwards and discovered that some Smart One freezer selections are now available at Safeway, I actually discovered that in the meeting as one member described the chocolate cake in very descriptive detail. I also picked up lots of fruits and veggies.

We talked a bit about the importance of tracking everything, that has been tough for me for the past couple of weeks, but today is off to a good start.

I like to use the 12 week journals as opposed to the week ones and apparently there on sale which means only one thing WW is going to change them some how. I hope they change them and not discontinue them. I find them way easier to cart around than the paper ones. I suppose I could flip to a normal little coil notebook but I'm all about brands :)

I can still feel my abs from my adventures with The Biggest Loser DVD. Last night I decided to skip to the high impact aerobic workout....dumb, dumb, dumb. That is one tough workout and I realize that I should probably follow the first 3 weeks as they lay out and not get too big for my britches. However that "last chance workout" is probably why a loss showed on the scale today.

Today is a rest day, tomorrow 29km...I'll have the Epsom salts ready to go when I get home. I am doing laundry today so I don't need to go up and down stairs tomorrow. That will be the longest distance I've done to date, a big indication of my ability. The longest we do in training is 32km which should be 2 weeks from now and then we taper until Hawaii. A marathon is 42km, they're betting on the adrenaline carrying the other 10km and too be honest after having done a half marathon, 10k is nothing. I can do it, I'm not betting on fast but I can do it. For the next 5 weeks I'm going to kick up the strength workouts especially for the core.

To a great week up ahead!

2 days in a row

Did the Strength and Sculpt workout on the DVD yesterday. Oy vey, repitions are evil, pulsing is pure evil, more repitions just plain cruel.
But I did it and have had perfect posture all day because it hurts to slouch. Tonight I'll do the cardio again.
At first I was feeling like I wasn't doing much with only 30min workouts, (I'm getting used to training nights that go for an hour). I had to tell myself that it still counts.

I'm off to do the cardio, have a great weekend everyone!

Love this workout

Alright I did it, I went home put the workout clothes on and did Workout 1 on The Biggest Loser DVD. I remembered how much I despise lunges and squats but I did them. Tonight shall be Workout 2. I really enjoy Bob and I like the fact that the contestants in the dvd represent all shapes and sizes.

My snackapalooza of last week has been hard to curtail, but this morning I opened the hutch in my office and tossed the unhealthy snacks that started to accumulate from visits from the roaming Nut Man. Who stops by every two weeks, the good news is not one bag was near empty. Dug out Week 1 book last night and reviewed the plan.

This week's grocery list will be on plan, mind you next week there won't be a potluck or halloween candy so the temptation part will be easier.

I hoping to maintain on Saturday, I think a loss might be a miracle but I will be completely on plan today and drink my water. Plus I'll definitely have activity over the next two days.
Friday will be the first day back on the pathways since the snow/ice so that will be fun at least Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be plus temperatures so I think I'll shampoo my carpet. Then on Sunday it's a killer distance I think 29km.

I know TOM started my descent into bad behaviours but it was much more difficult to pull myself out this time, weather could certainly have effected it. The first really cold week that just makes you want to stay home in your pajamas and drink hot chocolate...not condusive to weightloss.

All one can do is pick up and move on

It's a Wednesday

Which I originally thought was Thursday and was disapointed for a bit.

Halloween night was alright, only got about 30 kids and nothing after 8pm (it was a school night after all). Brought all of my left over candy to work and literally stuffed this fish bowl type thing that we normally have filled with candy. There are now 3 packages of nibs left, the rest of it has been inhaled by my work mates.

I have layed out the workout clothes at home and put the dvd on the dvd player so when I get home there are no excuses...whatsoever.

Didn't eat the lunch I brought today instead opted for a taco salad. It was staff meeting day, everyone buys lunch on staff meeting day, however this evening I will have a low point supper.

Woke up with a wicked headache at about 3am, there's a chinook coming for sure. The extreme temperature changes can throw many people for a loop. The weird part is I only get headaches when it goes from cold to warm, not warm to cold.

Wowser wicked bus adventures yesterday, must go now but it's a good story.