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.<\/p>\n
Jon is cooking some breakfast – eggs and homemade sourdough bread…..YUM!<\/p>\n
I’m sitting here in my clean and tidy home and today feels like a GREAT DAY.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t hurt that when I stepped on the scale this morning I was down to 192.2lbs.<\/p>\n
YAH!!!!! That’s 5.2 lbs down since Sept 28th and from August 9th (when I started exercising<\/em>)…..it’s 10lbs+\/- that I’ve lost.<\/p>\n Although, if I’m totally honest, I will have to admit that the weight loss (this week<\/em>) 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<\/em>) and…..it was BRUTAL!<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER and aside from just being a tiny bit tired….it’s as if last week never even happened.<\/p>\n 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?<\/p>\n 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!<\/p>\n Well, This past weekend we went out and got a Iron Supplement<\/a> and I’ve been taking it since Saturday and the difference is already noticeable.<\/p>\n I’m hoping that I’ll feel a bit more energized soon. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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……<\/p>\n I’m working towards making the positive choices.<\/p>\n ps. I’ll try to get Jon to take a picture of me today and I’ll add it later…….<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading “Monday Morning Update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,8,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","category-health","category-me","category-weight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}