Stressed Out

Ok. Time to confess why my weight loss has come to a halt (basically). I am super stressed. We put down an offer on a house up here on Friday, and it was accepted. Good news, right? Well, now we have to go through figuring out if we will be approved for it, and all that jazz. Nice thing is that we will basically have it figured out by February 15, but the next couple of weeks are going to be stressful.

And, let's face it, we all know stress is my mortal enemy. I shut down when faced with stress. This time I'm going to try to combat it. I just wish I could go for a walk outside without freezing my ass off. That would be much appreciated! I always feel better after a walk, and being on my tread climber is just not the same. I guess I'll just have to deal with it and go. I hope that I can remain somewhat stress free. Here's to the dream!

Today, one of our salesmen from Fort St John is coming up, and my mom is sending up fresh fruits and vegetables with him. I am so excited! It's so difficult here. Nothing looks good! I bought some red delicious apples, which I don't really like, but they were the only ones that looked decent. I just ate one, and it was the most grainy apple I've ever eaten. So gross! And I'm betting that this orange that I have to eat now is just as bad. I had one on Friday, and it had no taste. Ugh, so lame! I can't wait to have some nice crunchy grapes, and Ambrosia apples and oranges with taste! So exciting!

Oh, and I'd like to give a little shout out to my friend MK who ran 12 km last night which tops her previous achievement of 5-6! Way to go MK! I'm jealous that you can still go out and run without freezing your butt off!

Anyway, I should get back to work. Ugh. Don't. Wanna. Be. Here.

Official Weigh-In #4

Ugh, what a week.

Sunday, January 22: 209 pounds
Sunday, January 29: 208 pounds
Total loss in 2012: 5.5 pounds
4.5 pounds to go to the first goal of 10 pounds

Yeah. Ugh. I could have done so much better! It's lame. Two more weeks to go, and 4.5 pounds to lose. I better get it together!

More tomorrow!

Bucket List

Anyone out there have a bucket list?

As you may have noticed, I have added one to my blog, and I've put my very first item on it - Run the Vancouver Sun Run. It's a 10K through the streets of Vancouver. I think, if I start working at it slowly now, and once spring comes, I should be able to do it!

I'm going to slowly keep adding to it. I'm sure that I had a bucket list on a previous blog, but I can't recall anything that's on it.

Anyways, I am at work, so maybe I should do something!

Have a great day all!

Official Weigh-In #3

What a super crappy week. Lots of work, and bad bad food choices.

Want to see how it went?

Sunday, January 15: 209 pounds
Sunday, January 22: 209 pounds

So, not necessarily a bad week, but not a good week. I've still lost 4.5 pounds this year, so I have to look at that. It's better than nothing, but this week I have to change.

I was texting with my weight-loss buddy, MK, and we are both happy that Sunday means that a fresh start to the week. I better get down some pounds. I have 3 weeks to lose 5.5 pounds to reach my goal!

Mini-Break

Ah, finally. I can take a breather at work. Only for a few minutes, because we still have a lot of stock to put away.

Yesterday freight didn't arrive until 4. It is supposed to be here at 10. Not cool. We were here until 7, and we only got customer stock done. Now we have our re-stock to do.

Good news is that I'm holding on at 209 pounds. Bad new is, I haven't lost. Not the worst news ever.

But, it seems that whenever I have a quiet moment, I think about crocheting. I don't know what it is. I'm addicted. Plain and simple.

This month I joined a "flower swap" with another blog (I'll post the details on my other blog, lbk creations). Basically, you make a bunch of flowers, or squares with flowers (basically, flowers, flowers and more flowers) and then send them to your swap sister to make something for herself. Last night I made 2 flowers, and I've been googling all morning to come up with more ideas. I have until the end of February to get them made and sent out, but I want to be prepared. I want to give my swap sister something awesome. If you have any flowery ideas, let me know!

Anyways, I should get back to work. Oh what fun. I want a break. 8 hours of OT this week and there's still 2 days left! Oye!

Tuesday. Ah, Tuesday.

I don't know about you, but my Monday was looooong. I worked from 7-6 with only half an hour for lunch!

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I started this post on Tuesday around 10AM. It's not Wednesday at 7AM. Yep, that's how busy work has been.

Today, I came in at 6:30, exactly 12 hours after I left yesterday. It's so busy, and we are so far behind. The bossman is in Toronto for our annual "aren't we awesome" conference. Somehow, though I am the newest member of the team, that left me in charge. Or at least it seems like it. The back guys come to me to let me know what they're doing, and I'm here first and out last.

Phew. I can't wait until the weekend! Though, with how bad it looks, I might have to come in on Saturday :(

Suffice it to say, food has not been good this week, nor has exercise. Last night we had pizza, and not even remotely healthy. I'm not drinking enough water, and by the time I get home I want to sleep, so I haven't been working out. And I need to get different work shoes. I found some pretty cool looking steel toes, but they are just killing me.

But, I should get going. I have so much to do today! I'm still working on stuff from Monday, and usually I stay caught up and finish everything the day I get it. It's not looking good.

I'm already at 5.5 hours of overtime, and it's Wednesday morning. Whoopie [enter sarcasm].

 

Official Weigh-In #2

Can you believe it's the third Sunday of 2012 already?? I just can't! It seems too crazy!

I did my weigh-in, and I have to admit, it didn't look too good. I don't think I worked out at all this week, and my food was up and down. So was my mood. Friday I wouldn't eat because we were going out to meet people and I felt too fat. Turns out it was awesome, but I basically only ate 500-ish calories. I skipped breakfast, and only had lunch. Not the way to lose weight, I know, but my head was in the wrong place. I assumed that I gained a bunch of weight this week, and that I was failing. It sucked so bad. I hate feeling like that.

But, I woke up this morning and weighed, and I feel better:

Sunday, January 8: 211 pounds
Sunday, January 15: 209 pounds
That's a loss of 2 pounds!!!
Total lost in 2012: 4.5 pounds
5.5 pounds to go to my first goal!

I think 4.5 pounds in 2 weeks is awesome! I really need to focus, and try my best. I know, 4.5 pounds is awesome, but I haven't been working my best. I haven't been working out much, but I have been trying to watch my food. Obviously, weight is based on 80% of what you eat. I've been finding that. I need to start trying to eat more fruits and veggies, but it's so hard when the availability it limited up here.

Anyways, I'm going to get going. I am hungry...time for some breakfast!