Influence from others
I've read a bunch of positive meditations in the diaries this morning. In Korrie's, I wrote this:
Korrie, you know you're still learning. Me too. We all are, and your journey is to the right mentality, to manifest your desires and be happy. I'm cheering you on, but yeah, its ALL YOU BABE. Time, hard work, patience, tempered with fun good times A balance to work towards. I've been getting better at my own balance and it was not easy. Lots of set-backs and bitter moments. And also lots of self-denial for me, which wasn't easy because I saw myself as a natural hedonist. I actually had to CHANGE, first, then my self-perception changed, too. I got smart about me. And it took forever, and I'm obviously not perfect, but I'm proud of myself for maintaining the mid 140s, maintaining my exercise regime, and maintaining somewhat balanced and healthy eating for several months. That might seem very small to some people, but for me, it was a major accomplishment because it went along with a renewed sense of self and self-respect. I can only say, I hope you have deep introspective moments that push you closer to your goals.
So yeah, I didn't
mean to talk about ME so much, but I couldn't really seem to come up with great things to say to her like Mal does, so I could only speak from experience with my intuition of what might possibly be Korrie's issue (or one of them). In doing so I realized that I
may be at a stalemate at 145-ish, but this is the first autumn/winter that I haven't started gaining and going up to 150-155. My actual true goal for the next 3 months is to MAINTAIN, because although I like my body better at 140 (21.9 BMI), winter is a hard time for me when it comes to self control. Yo-yo dieting and gaining is, as we know, not good for the body.
I'm proud to say I didn't eat much candy this Halloween. I didn't have ANY this weekend (I had dessert on Sat) but when I was PMSing last week I had some, fo sho. Ali is in NV so I won't be orchestrating any Holiday Party this year

I miss her, but am relieved that I won't be surrounded by chocolate for weeks on end
Tracking my calories starting yesterday--somehow I ate 1531 yesterday and worked my ass off in the house all day, working so hard I didn't have a big dinner, just a pizza pretzel and a Pumpkin Ale. At least I had a black bean and brown rice salad for lunch. I hate tracking food twice so you won't see it much here in the diary, but I guess I should track calories so you can see my progress and what I'm up to. I have to train for my 10K in 24 days (no prob, as far as stamina, but I want to be FAST) so I'll be forcing myself to do more HIIT. I actually might try to commission a trainer out here to help me and pay him or her in wine

We'll see if that works
