My little Bit of Honey

I totally forgot to do a post this week, where is my head at this week? Things are going ok - still haven't lost a pound, which is such a bummer! I haven't gained one but I haven't lost any either. I remember going through this when I was doing this the last time. I wouldn't lose for a few weeks and then bam, 2 pounds off. So hopefully that'll be the case this time around but we will see! I just have to continue what I'm doing and trust that it will work. Instead of focusing and dwelling on the fact that I haven't lost anything recently, I want to list the positive things that I've changed recently: 1.) I've cut down on my snacking. Snacking was a huge part of my day to day, I would be eating constantly throughout the day. Now, I have one snack a day and that's between breakfast and lunch. If I really get hungry in the afternoon I try to have a piece of fruit to tide me over or some chocolate covered cranberries (only one serving!) but us...

Mondays are tough, especially those ones that you actually have to peel yourself out of bed. You know the ones, your eyelids feel like sandpaper and hurt to open.. how can it possibly be 4:30 already? (or 6 or whenever you wake up). These are the mornings I think to myself "Good Lord, there is no way this is worth it. There is no freaking way that I can do this" yet, I do. Though I did give myself an extra 10 minutes this morning, but I got up and made my way out the door. Here I am.  Finally drinking my coffee after working out and getting ready, the worst part of today is that I *still* feel like I could go back to sleep for another 3 hours. Ugh, all the coffee, please. OK, that's enough complaining for today, here is what you are actually here to read about! This week was good, not great like last week, but still good. I still stayed within my range each day and still managed to make my 10k steps most days. The results? Well, I didn't lose any weight last week bu...

So I went an entire week of calorie counting and exercising (3 days which is better than before!) and I definitely have seen results. I have dropped 1.6 pounds (though, MFP doesn't reflect it since I had gone up a bit and come back down) and I am feeling a bit better. I feel like this could actually work and it's making me feel good again and motivating me again! I was really happy when I got on the scale this morning and saw how much I weighed, it made it all worth it :)  The Fitbit is really, really helping too! I love seeing how many steps I've done for the day (usually over 10k!!) it's a lot of fun and helps motivate me to compete with myself. Just a small update today as I don't have much else going on! :)

Day 2 went really well, not as good as day 1, but still good! I stayed just about within my calorie range (I think I was -18 calories which is wayyy better than I was doing before). I didn't go for a walk so I am sure that was part of it. Day 3 has started off really good as I have already gone for a walk today! I also got a FITBIT in hopes that will help me stay on track. :) That's all for today!

So I'm going to start posting daily and checking in to keep myself accountable! I have MFP, a fitness group with my girlfriends and this blog. Hopefully all three together will keep me going ! Yesterday was a good day, I went for 2 walks and was able to stay under my calories by 326 calories! yay! So here's hoping today is just as good. I didn't go for a walk this morning because I'm working from home, I'm slowly increasing my speed to start to run. I just don't want to do all or nothing so walking is good for now! My goal for today is to stay at or under my calorie range : )

It's been so long since I did a blog post, I bet you all thought I fell off the face of the planet huh? ;) Well, I'm still here! I did have some medical issues recently that for now look to be resolved (hopefully). It was a scary and tough time for me and my family, but I'm here and everything is fine. The good news is that over the past 2-3 weeks that I really haven't been working out, I didn't gain any weight. I didn't lose any, but I didn't gain any. It was tough this morning to get up and work out, but I did it. I took a walk this morning to try and ease myself back into this working out thing and then I re read some of my first blog posts (I try to do this when I'm in need of motivation and to remind myself how I did it the first time.) It made me realize that even though I've been "trying" the past few months, I've really been just trying which basically means I haven't been giving it everything I've got. Look, It's ...