So, another Monday has rolled around and the kids are off to school and I’m headed off to coffee with a dear friend shortly.
Jon is cooking some breakfast – eggs and homemade sourdough bread…..YUM!
I’m sitting here in my clean and tidy home and today feels like a GREAT DAY.
It doesn’t hurt that when I stepped on the scale this morning I was down to 192.2lbs.
YAH!!!!! That’s 5.2 lbs down since Sept 28th and from August 9th (when I started exercising)…..it’s 10lbs+/- that I’ve lost.
Although, if I’m totally honest, I will have to admit that the weight loss (this week) was from a really cruddy week of being sick, and not from extra diligent and careful effort on my part. I ate soup, soup and more soup and I managed to drag myself out to exercise ONCE (on Friday) and…..it was BRUTAL!
I think that saying that I did about half the class is an overstatement. I guess that’s the fallout from spending the week on the couch.
I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER and aside from just being a tiny bit tired….it’s as if last week never even happened.
I’ve been frustrated for a while at how tired I’m feeling. It’s been particularly frustrating because WHY AM I EXERCISING AND NOT FEELING ANY BETTER? After two months at this, I should be able to do a set without feeling like I’m dying, right?
Then I started wondering about my Iron levels. See, I cut out red meat back in the summer. If I don’t absolutely HAVE TO, I’m not eating it. I feel really cruddy when I eat it…like it’s physically noticeable how hard it is for me to digest and so….I choose to stop eating it, and VOILA – I feel better! But, like I said, I wondered if I might have a bit of a low iron issue – due to other issues that I’m just not gonna talk about right now – trust me on this one…..honestly!
Well, This past weekend we went out and got a Iron Supplement and I’ve been taking it since Saturday and the difference is already noticeable.
I’m hoping that I’ll feel a bit more energized soon.
I’m back at the exercise this week. I am noticing changes in my clothes and that adds a tiny bit of extra incentive to keep going. The clothes I wore yesterday honestly felt “frumpy” because they were a bit too loose, so I’m gonna need to ransack my closet and figure out which clothes actually work and which ones need to get shoved to the back corners…..hopefully forever.
It is hard to keep going when you don’t see “things” happening, but I am seeing that perseverance is paying off. This is no quick fix deal. It’s a life style…..made ONE. CHOICE. at a time…..for every good choice there is a positive reaction (eventually) and for every poor choice there is an equally poor consequence……
I’m working towards making the positive choices.
ps. I’ll try to get Jon to take a picture of me today and I’ll add it later…….
good for you!!! Keep on truckin’, girl. It’s encouraging to see the numbers change, as slow or tedious as it seems … we SHALL OVERCOME, my friend!!
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