Weigh In No No (Jan.6, 2022)

I did something this morning that I shouldn't have.

I stepped on the scale to check my progress.

I was up and it really kind of dampened my spirits.

I have been following WW so well since Saturday, tracking everything and not going over my daily allotment so I was expecting to be down a couple pounds so seeing a gain really deflated me.

I hopped on the treadmill after work.

I got my 1 mile done in 13.50 today.

Then I continued on with my workout and ran 3.5 miles.

I was pretty sweaty when I finished - that just means it was a good workout.

I worked on taking down the Christmas decorations and putting them away.

It feels so bare in here.

There are still a few things here and there.

Especially in the dining room but I'm getting there.

I ended up snacking tonight - I was feeling a bit sorry for myself, like I've been so good and it was all for nothing.

So I went way over my points and then I felt guilty.

I'm just going to pick myself up, brush myself off and start anew tomorrow.

What else can a girl do?

I'm determined that this is going to be the year that I reach my weight loss goals.

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Still Cold (Jan.5, 2022)

 Freya woke up the same time as I did to go to work so Papa had to get up to so he could hang out with her.

I worked and they played and then by the time I finished work she was tuckered right out and crashed for a pretty good nap.

So Jason got a workout in and I got to snuggle with her.

She still loves watching her YouTube videos and recently has taken to having to have the volume at full blast while she watches them.

So we've been trying to convince her to wear headphones and normally she won't but tonight she commandeered Jason's.

Kody worked late and he has to work early in the morning again and Haylee was working so we had her stay over again.

Kody did come visit for a while when he got home and had supper with us.

I worked on undecorating - I got the tree taken down and put out.

There were lots of needles to clean up but not as bad as it's been other years.

I also got a few containers filled up and hauled back downstairs.

Little by little, it's getting done!

I got my 1 mile done in 14.02 minutes.

I then continued on and got 5k done.

I did a run 1 minute, walk 1 minute work out.

I got a pretty good sweat on and it felt good.

I am so worried that I'm going have to have a hard time when I go back outdoors running again, that I'm going to lose the progress I've made and I really don't want that to happen.

As soon as this freezing cold weather breaks, I'm going to get an outdoors run in but for now, I'm grateful that I have my treadmill.

This has what the weather has like the past couple weeks - this was a forecast so not exact, I think it's actually been colder.

Looks like we might actually reach 0 on Tuesday and if we do, this chick is heading out for a run.

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That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Workout with Freya (Jan.4, 2022)

 It was a cold day out there again today, brrr.

I made myself a nice healthy breakfast - very filling and low in points.

I went out at lunch time to do my usual activity as of late - shovel, shovel, shovel.

At least it wasn't snowing the whole time I was out there so maybe I'll get a break and it might stay clear for more than a day.

It was super cold out there - I was frozen when I came back in so I had to have a quick shower to warm up.

I was working away and suddenly I got booted out and could not get back in.

Shennelle was working down at the office and said she was working in Citrix with no issues so I warmed up my car and headed down there.

By the time I got there, the computers had gone down there too and it didn't look like they were coming back so I just headed back home.

I picked up Freya on my way because Haylee and Kody both had to work.

We wanted to keep her for the night anyway.

This played on the radio on the way - I really like this song, need to add it to my Spotify playlist when I get home.

Freya and I played around on Snapchat a bit.

I still don't really understand it but I also haven't spend that much time trying to figure out what it does.

I was trying to blog and she was 'helping' me!

She wasn't much help but I didn't mind, I just love having her here, it's been a few days since she was here so I missed her.

Making silly faces.

Being spooky.

Between shoveling and running around the house cleaning up and stuff, I didn't really need that many more steps to reach my daily goal but I did need to get my 1 mile run in so as soon as Jason got hom, I ran downstairs and hopped on the treadmill.

Got it done in 13.11 today.

I only did 2 minutes of a warm up and then I bumped up by .2 each time.

Freya and Jason came down just as I was doing my cool down and she wanted to workout too.

She got out the weights too.

Just hitting it hard!

So hard she needed a rest in the spare room downstairs.

(Not really, she's just pretending)

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Last Day of Christmas Vacation (Jan.3, 2022)

 Monday so that means weigh in day.

I was 191.4 lbs so that's down about 5 lbs since Saturday which isn't too shabby.

I've been following WW very closely since Saturday and tracking all my points - so far, it's going pretty good.

I'm only 2 lbs down since my last 'official' weigh in but still, feels good to be making progress again.

I watched some more Heartland this morning.

Then I made myself a delicious, healthy, low in points breakfast.

It snowed some more - I don't think it's ever stopped actually so I went out this afternoon and did some more shoveling.

Then once I finished that, I figured I'd go down and get my running done on the treadmill.

14.10 to run 1 mile today!

It's been awhile since I've been running and so I wanted to get a 5k run in today.

I sure hope it will just come right back to me once I'm able to run outside again because this 5k felt hard.

It felt good to get it done though.

Haylee posted a cute video of Freya dancing to 'I'm a Barbie Girl'.

It was so cute.

I love the little bodysuit she's wearing.

I couldn't save the video so I just took a screen shot.

Overall it was a pretty chill day.

I did laundry and I started putting a few Christmas things away.

I'll likely work on that over the week a little bit at a time and it should be all done by next week.

I'm sad to see it go - I just love sitting here with the Christmas lights on and just seeing all the decorations that I love but it's time.

It's back to work tomorrow - we are still working from home so I'll still just be here.

It kind of sounds like Covid cases are going through the roof right now with the Omicron variant so who knows when we'll get back to the office?

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!

Enough With The Snow Already! (Jan.2, 2022)

I slept in a bit this morning then when I got up, I got caught up on some episodes of Heartland.

I'm a whole season behind and I was kind of dreading watching it because I had a feeling they were going to be killing off a main character which kind of made me sad so I was kind of avoiding it.

My feeling was correct but it is what it is.

I mean it is just a show after all, the characters aren't real people and I still love the show.

It felt like catching up with old friends.

I had a healthy breakfast, eggs, oranges and berries.

Eggs are 0 points for me on the new plan so this whole breakfast was 0 points.

Jason cooked up lasagna for lunch at work today.

It looks pretty darn good.

We got more snow so guess what I did for an hour today.

Got the walkway done.

The sidewalk.

The driveway.

The pile beside the driveway is getting pretty high, it's getting hard to throw the snow up and over it.

After I got the driveway cleared, I went down to the store to get some fruit and veggies.

I wanted to get chicken breast too but they didn't have any so I went down to Subway and picked myself up a sub for supper.

I ate half of it when I got home and saved the other half for later.

I hopped on the treadmill - took 14.37 to do 1 mile today.

I did 43 minutes, 2.703 miles all together in order to get to my 13,000 step goal.

I just signed up for Snap Chat on New Years Eve and I haven't quite figured it out yet so I was playing around on it a bit today.

Got the filters figured out.

My Disney Princess look - wow, I have a skinny neck!

Freya is really going to like playing with this next time she is over.

Haylee did add me as a friend then she posted this cute as a button picture of Freya.

I was pretty chilled from spending so much time out shoveling today so I decided to warm up in a nice hot bath and started a new book that I got for Christmas from my brother.

Angels Fall

I'm really liking it so far.

Jason, looking too cool for school!

I love how Paddington is sitting there with him.

He is working on a goals book himself and one of his goals is to read more so we spent the evening reading.

In usual obsessive form, I was enjoying the book so much that I just couldn't put it down and ended up staying up until I finished it at 2:30 am.

Good thing I can sleep in tomorrow if I need to!

That's all for today, until next time, be happy!