Working on Me... and...

I couldn't go to spin because I was meeting with a parent coach. It was a good decision; I'll see her again next week. I am hopeful.

I came home, changed my clothes and took a 3.5 mile walk with the dog - lots of good hills so I didn't feel guilty for not running. I ate lunch, picked up and headed back outside for yard work. There is NO way I can do it all in one day, so I set some mini goals and pretty much accomplished them and mapped out a few for tomorrow. It's call "eating the elephant a bite at a time". I'm getting a shower in before the kids are out of school so I had to quit for the day.

Eating has been SPOT on!! I feel totally in control and haven't craved anything I'm not supposed to eat. The tween had frozen yogurt (a big weakness of late) and I wasn't interested at all. It's so awesome to feel like this again! I know it's only day 2, but I feel I every day builds my resolve, my confidence and my power to say "no thank you!" I will get back to my "happy weight".

The Dr. called yesterday with no good news about the thyroid and upped my medication. I'll test again in 6 weeks. It explains a lot about why I wasn't losing anything and why I've felt so apathetic, depressed and yawning all the time. I hope things will start heading up all over.

For now, I am still too big - but I'm trying to be nicer to my self. My homework for my next "coaching"session is to track how I feel when stressed and what triggers it. School is done in an hour so I'll be logging my first entry very soon...