My Journey Continued: Fresh Slate For 2014!

Q, I’m trying to keep your words in mind. I shouldn’t be trying to force things to happen. The time will come when the time is right. I just need to accept it and keep thinking positively I suppose. For the most part I do just fine being single, but every now and then it gets me down. I’ll be ok… eventually. :)

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So, my big get back on track week resulted in massive failure. Once again, too many temptations around for me to stay on track. Worst of all was that it was all brought onto myself by myself. I have a candy dish at work, which my coworkers love, but this week I brought my favorite candy in thinking that I’ll be a good girl. Yeah, that lasted all of 10 minutes. My favorite is the Butterfinger. Once I start, I cannot stop! So, no more Butterfingers!

Monday I got my work out in. Tuesday I got half of a workout in. I used my laptop and it decided halfway through that it was time to reboot for some updates. It took forever so I just stretched it out and got in the shower to start getting ready for work. I was too lazy yesterday and today to get up to exercise so again, I didn’t.

This may sound odd, but even though I still ate horribly and didn’t exercise like I intended, I do feel ok with everything. I’m not sulking over it. It is what it is. I’ll just need to take it one day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute at a time. I’ll be back on track on soon.

In other news. Some of you may remember that last Dec I had to put my sick bearded dragon to sleep. Early last month I went to my local reptile store to see a clutch of babies they had and even though I was so tempted to bring one home I knew I shouldn’t because I had my vacation coming up. Well, I called earlier this week to see if they had any babies left figuring they’d say no they sold out, but there was one left. They usually sell really quickly so the fact that they had one left after over a month of being there, I took it as a sign that this may be the one meant for me. So I went to look at it Tuesday afternoon and fell in love with it! Bearded dragons have this weird behavior of licking things to explore their surroundings. That’s one of my favorite behaviors they show, it just looks so adorable. Well no sooner did I get her in my arms and she started licking my sweater. Needless to say, I brought her home with me. When these guys are young it’s hard to tell for sure if they’re male or female, but the breeder thinks she’s a girl so she’s a she for now. I’ve decided to name her Ember. :)

I promise I’ll get caught up on diaries soon. I feel horrible that I haven’t been checking in as often as I should. :(
 
ER MAH GAWD. I love beardies. Mine is such a snob (I say that because she always looks like she's looking down her nose at me). I named her Khaleesi, from Game of Thrones. Love her to bits, she was a rescue, and her poor tail is burnt at the end, but she's a hoot.

I'm glad that you found a new little one to take care of :) Animals are amazing, and for me, they calm me down when I'm having a particularly rough day. Ember looks super cute too! That's exciting.

I wanted to say that, the other day I was on the treadmill with my laptop and it did that too. It's so frustrating, because you want to keep going but you also want to throw in the towel. I ended up using my ipad instead while I waited for it to do it's thing. The important thing is that you're okay with what you've done, and that you're taking things step by step. You're doing really well considering the stresses in your life, so for me, you're pretty damn inspiring. I wanna catch up to you so bad =P.
 
Thanks Loch! I still feel very awkward about being called an inspiration. Especially at a time like this when I'm literally falling on my face, but if I do inspire anyone than I'm happy about that. :)

My animals are my everything! I don't have children so my pets are my babies. I know non pet people hear that and think I'm crazy, but it really is how I feel. It's kind of sad to say, but I take better care of them than I do of myself. My little Ember is already turning into quite the princess. Getting her has helped to calm me down in some ways. I love going home to see her and watching her come out of her shell is pretty cool. She's still rather shy, but every day she seems to be getting more and more comfortable with me. I love the whole bonding process. :) I'm attaching a pic of her that I got the other night. Her first time falling asleep on me. She's such a little sweet heart. :)

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So, I'm still tumbling down this slippery slope. I have no clue what my problem is. I'm just really struggling with getting on track. This weekend was horrible! We had company most of the weekend and had a lot of takeout. I had a lot of donuts, Dominos pizza, and ice cream. Oh, and soda! I haven't weighed myself since early last week. I'm pretty sure I'm back in the 200s now. My goal is to get a workout in tomorrow morning, weigh myself to see the damage I did, and have a decent day of food tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.
 
So, I'm still tumbling down this slippery slope. I have no clue what my problem is. I'm just really struggling with getting on track. This weekend was horrible! We had company most of the weekend and had a lot of takeout. I had a lot of donuts, Dominos pizza, and ice cream. Oh, and soda! I haven't weighed myself since early last week. I'm pretty sure I'm back in the 200s now. My goal is to get a workout in tomorrow morning, weigh myself to see the damage I did, and have a decent day of food tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.

Well, I recently read a book on the recommendation of someone else. I was really glad that I read that book, it is called "The Will-Power Instinct" by Kelly Mcgonigal. I read that part where how feeling bad or beating yourself down for eating something that you don't wanna eat makes you eat more of the same kind. I took this advice and stopped beating myself down for eating something out of the ordinary. You might wanna keep something of a log here and log everything you eat but be conscious about it as much as you can. Something out of the ordinary is okay once in a while. ESPECIALLY IF IT TURNS OUT TO BE A FUN WEEKEND. :D. Get back on track Mandy.
 
Thanks Kal! The problem is that this wasn't just this past weekend. I've been splurging for almost a month now! I just can't seem to get a handle on it. It's frustrating, but at the same time I know I'm not dedicating myself which is the major problem. If I set my mind to it I can get back on track. It's just a matter of getting my mind straight and setting myself to do it. That book does sound interesting though. I may check it out. I've been thinking of reading some self help books lately. Maybe this will be the start.:)

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Well, this morning didn't go as planned. No real shock there. My alarm when off to get up for a workout. My mind said nope so I reset it to get up in an hour. So, no workout this morning and I doubt I'll have time tonight. With that said I have to be good with my food intake today. I decided to try something new. When I get my cravings for chocolate, soda, chips, etc. instead of giving it I'm going to write it down. EVERY time I think about eating something back I'm going to mark it down. I'm hoping by doing this it'll show me how often I think about eating the junk and hopefully I'll start understanding why. I know part of it is boredom. This job of mine is so repetitive and boring. I'm also going to drink water today. I've been drinking water all along, but not nearly enough AND I've been drinking a lot of soda lately too. I need to kick soda again. Just water today.

I weighed in this morning and as I expected I am back in the 200s. I weighed in at 204.4lb. I'm currently dealing with TOM so I'm hoping that's part of it, but I know I'm certainly out of Onederland regardless. I need to get back on track. Today's day one....
 
Well guys, I'm really starting to get worried here. I have no idea what the hell is happening to me. I have absolutely NO self control with food anymore. It's getting to the point where it's starting to scare me. Where did my motivation and dedication go? :(

I've been trying for the past two weeks now to get back on track, hasn't happened yet. I had a thought this morning that maybe if I started a challenge of my own it would help. So that's what I did. It's not an overly complicated one and most of you will do really well with it as you all seem to be kicking butt with diet and exercise. So, if you're interested, here's the link. It starts tomorrow. I apologize for the short notice. :(

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/thre...-Just-in-Time-For-Easter!?p=887280#post887280
 
I know exactly how you feel. I've been up and down with my eating, and my exercise had completely died. The only reason I'm getting back on the horse is because I'm trying to be social and hang out with my friend and her friends, and they want to go to the gym. I was eating out almost every day again. It sucks :(.

I hope that you figure things out and find your motivation, and come back to us. You've gotten so far, and maybe a bit of a break will help you refocus.
 
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