It's Going To Take A Little Mind Over Matter This Week........

I have a fun little story to tell you but first I have to explain the title for the post this week.  So I have been planning to hit it into high gear this week.  Last week I was doing pretty good, but not 100%.  All week I kept saying that I was going to build back up to 100% for this week.  I think I cursed myself.  It always seems that when I get in the groove and start doing really well w/ my goals that something happens, usually I get sick, go on vacation, etc. and get off track.  Well I have had a little set back already to start out the week.  Time for a story.......

Friday night I got the opportunity to go up to my friend Monty's cabin up Big Cottonwood Canyon.  This cabin and I have a love/ hate relationship.  The first time I went to the cabin I got major rope burn (blisters, cuts, the whole 9 yards) on both of my hands after falling off their homemade zip line.  I live in Utah, so of course there is still a lot of snow up there in the middle of March.  We went early and trudged a path in the snow to the cabin.  Just on the side of the road there was enough snow piled up that it was taller than me.  Since we were the first people going to the cabin, it was a little rough walking through the snow.  We kept sinking, in fact multiple times I went down in the snow up to my hips.  But we made it!  The problem arose on the way back to the cars.  It was late and dark.  We were using our friends cell phone for a flashlight.  Luckily all the people that came after us compacted the snow better, so we didn't sink in as much.  Right at the end we had to go down a 3-4 foot drop and around the pile of snow on the side of the road which then  led to the road.  As I took my first step down the drop, my purse started sliding off my arm so I went to adjust it, lost my footing, and fell head first down the hill into the hard compacted snow from the road.  As I was hitting the snow, I thought to myself "ah crap, this is going to hurt" and heard my neck pop, followed by belly flopping against the rest of the snow.  It hurt.  It still hurts.  Luckily I didn't break anything (especially my neck) and I can still move, it just hurts to move.  I have been taking it easy the rest of the weekend, but things are getting more sore and stiff at work today.  I can't let this stop my progress though.  I still want to be 100% for this week.  Darn cabin and working out curse! 

So here's the plan:  I am going to eat healthy everyday.  No goof ups.  Next week, I am going to post my food intake on the blog to keep me on track.  That way it'll keep me from goofing up even more because I have to tell you all what I ate.  I am going to still work out, but things that will be low impact on my back and shoulders/arms/ neck - so I'm thinking it's going to be a recumbent bike week.  We'll see how it goes.  I am going to break this curse one way or another.  I'll check in with you next week! 

Thanks for all your support.  I have about 2 months until my 1 year mark for starting this whole weight loss adventure.  It's time to kick it into high gear.  Hopefully I won't have any more things come up to side track the progress.  Until next week!

Time to Report!

So in my last post I came up with the idea to be accountable to all of you on a daily basis for 14 days to help me build healthy habits again.  I was making daily status posts on Facebook about whether I had a healthy habit or bad habit day.  It was considered a healthy habit day if I stayed in my calorie range and worked out.  Bad habit days were when these didn't happen.  So here are the results:

The first 6 days ROCKED!  I worked out for 1- 1 1/2 hours each day and I ate within my calorie range.  On day 7, I had a continuing education dinner for dietitians at a fantastic restaurant.  I ate a delicious meal including a chopped salad and salmon.  But the side dishes were augratin potatoes and creamed spinach.  And then the killer, creme brulee.  I LOVE CREME BRULEE!  So I ate unhealthy that day and did not work out since we got done late and I was too full to workout after.  This is when everything started going down hill fast.  I started having half good habit and half bad habit days.  It was like I would eat healthy but then not go to the gym.  Or I would go to the gym and then eat terribly which counter acted the progress I made at the gym.  And then the ultimate habit killer occurred, I went on a last minute road trip to California.  I was stuck in a car w/ delicious (not so healthy) treats for 12 hours each way.  Plus we ate at Jack in the Box at least 3-4 times (since we don't have those in Utah).  And we ate out for every single meal and I did not figure out my calories once on the whole trip.  When I got home I should have reported bad habit days all across the board for Thursday through Sunday.  AND I gained 5 pounds over the weekend.  Booo!

Luckily I have been able to kick it back into gear over the past week and I've taken 4 of the 5 pounds off so far.  I've been better at going to the gym and I've been trying to make better food choices.  But I still need to be even more consistent with the gym and start tracking my calories again.  I have been debating whether or not to start the good habit/ bad habit day posts again for another 14 days.  It was working really well when I was doing it.  I think I will, so I hope you all don't get annoyed with it.  Sorry this post wasn't very inspirational or anything like that today.  I mostly just wanted to let you all know what was going on with my weight loss progress and what happened with the last challenge.  I'm going to add in some fun pictures from my trip so you can at least see how beautiful it was in California.  I hope you all are persevering with your weight loss (and weight gain!) goals.  Just keep swimming! 

 Me in a tree! 

 Beautiful Santa Barbara California! 

5 reasons why I gained weight with the trip.  Delicious treats from a Danish bakery in Solvang, California.

Camile and I in front of the waterfall outside of Solvang, California.

And cute, quaint downtown Solvang, California.  I adore Solvang!