Day 9: Keep The Momentum

 

I've been up and down but I'm not giving up. I might have been close to rock bottom but I held on tight and started the climb out. I can't look back and I can't change the past, but I have full control of the future when it comes to my weight.

It's Wednesday and it's Day 9 of this last-ditch effort to get the weight back off. It was 44 degrees when I got up this morning but it was 60 and sunny by 12:30! After today temps are doing to be in the 40's during the day and 30's at night. There's a chance of rain tonight but then nothing until Monday night.

Breakfast was 120 calorie french toast and an 80 calorie yogurt. Morning snack was a 120 calorie vanilla shake with peanut butter powder (30 calories). Lunch was the usual chef salad and 220 calorie pepperoni pizza melt. Afternoon snack was 80 calorie cottage cheese and 90 calorie Alyssa's cookies.

I got dressed before I even fed the stray cats today because I was wearing a short nightgown and didn't want to go outside like that. When you're home most of the time it does become an effort to get dressed, mostly because I was not exercising. I had my shoes on and my shake made before 11 am and I was on the treadmill as soon as I logged out for lunch. Workout 3 in the Road to Recovery series was 13m12s plus the usual 6 minute warm up/cool down. Workout 4 is about 12 minutes and the plan right now (at 12:47 pm) is to get that in after work.

My Nutrisystem shipment came today. I didn't want to use up the rest of my lunch hour on that, so I'll put everything away after work. I shouldn't have much trouble fitting it in as I've organized the freezer pretty well and delayed my shipment long enough. I also don't have a bunch of contraband food in there! I do have a couple of old items in there that I need to toss, but I'll do that on garbage day next week.

Work wasn't super busy but I had some things I needed to get done before I dive into the large project I have. I'm doing what I can to keep my volume of work up, but it's a daily struggle. I won't be able to keep my top tier rating if I don't have the results to support it. Doesn't matter if it's not my fault, they don't factor that in. Everything is a numbers game! I ended up spending most of the afternoon on the phone with my boss and a colleague working on some of the things we're offloading from our boss. That really made the afternoon fly by!

I checked in on my bank account this week and I have almost $50k in my savings now. Once my remaining 2 bills are paid for the month, there will still be $2k left in my checking and I get paid again around April 4. I'm trying to move money to my savings each month, instead of letting it sit in my checking account. Might as well get a little bit of interest on it. Having money in the bank really gives me peace of mind. I do plan on redoing the front porch but I'm not going to spend a fortune on that because I want to keep a good balance in savings. New windows and a porch door are the key items.

When 5 pm rolled around I hadn't had my afternoon snack, so I decided to have that with a cup of coffee before hitting the treadmill. Well, I never made it to the treadmill. I put away my Nutrisystem food and then tried to take the trash out. I fell in the garage and hurt my left hand and skinned my right elbow. I can move everything but my ring finger hurts. I may have a fracture but I'm not going to panic. It could just be a sprain. When will I learn not to try and carry too much? I stepped on the boot tray out there and it slid on the concrete. I had to sit there a while and calm down, then figure out how to get up.

This is impacting my ability to type, so today will be a short and incomplete blog.