My little Bit of Honey

Well week 3 is in the books, great! I will say honestly I haven't been as good this week, but, that's just due to some rough stuff we're going through, all will be ok and I am back on track today with counting calories and working out. I did get a run in on Monday which was great,I will also do a workout today!  I weighed myself this morning just to see how I was doing, I was not expecting any type of loss ( I weighed in on Sunday and I did in fact lose 2 pound last week). Well I lost .8 oz! I am SO close to being where I was when I weighed in last! I'm not expecting a big loss this week for my own personal reasons, but, it would be nice to lose .2 more pounds and be back where I was a few weeks ago!  We will see! I had to get dressed up yesterday (I work from home so most days my "dressed up" is my LLR leggings and a tank top) and I hadn't worn my "Dressy" clothes in awhile and man it was difficult to find something that fit, everything was too ...

I'm 2 weeks in as of today, last week went great with the exception of Saturday and Sunday. I strayed a bit and didn't do as well as I should have. Ah well, everyone has slip ups sometimes. I've basically stuck to my healthy eating and I've been exercising a lot more, at least once a day I'll do something. Yesterday I did a different workout and it was good, but didn't give me the steps I needed, so I decided to go for a run at lunch. I did great, I did stop for a few minutes here and there, but I kept going and finished up the session with running (which is important!) and did not vomit on the side of the road (which I will admit, I felt like it a few times - it was HOT). Both are wins.  So I'm sore all the time pretty much but it's a good sore, it's that "my muscles are changing" type of sore.   So I've been feeling pretty good overall, I've really upped my protein and my Omega 3s which has helped! I'm eating probably about....

Almost all of my life, I've always been tired. I've had very few days where I felt completely GOOD and where I wasn't suffering from something. I've grown tolerant of it and just accepted that it is what it is. I've been focusing on my calories for the last few years and ensuring that I wasn't eating too much so I could lose weight. I thought that if I kept doing that, I'd eventually feel better. Doesn't really work like that, calories aren't the only factor here and if I'm going to practice what I preach, then I really needed to pay attention to the bigger picture. Let's go through how I feel on a daily basis: Wake up: Exhausted and just not able to shake this "out of it feeling".  8-9 AM - Have 2 cups of coffee and slowly start to wake up and feel better 10-2pm - feel good! Energized and able to get stuff done! 2PM on - Start to feel tired, headache, foggy brain, lose motivation/energy/irritable I have been dealing with thi...

Now you have BNL stuck in your head, you're welcome. Anywho..it's been one week since I kicked myself in the ass and got back on track. In that week I've stayed within calories and have exercised every day but one. I'm considering this first week a big win and while I didn't lose weight, I am feeling better body wise which is always a plus. I only had meat once with a meal (though to be fair I did try some of my husband/sons dinner as well, meh) and am doing really well with my water! I've been weighing/measuring everything and finding that what the serving size says on the box in reference to cups/number of items isn't necessarily the same as the weight they say. So for my wheat thins it says you can have something like 16 which comes out to roughly 29 G (I'm not sure if this is exact numbers but you get the point). Well it's usually a bit UNDER 16 crackers, so I go with the weight. Not sure if this is the right way to do it, buuuuuuuuut it's ...

I've been doing well with working out, I only skipped one day so far since last Wednesday, so that will be my rest day.  Yesterday, I went for a run for the first time in over a month. I ran for 20 minutes straight, it felt so damn good to be out there. I took it easy on myself and made most of the run downhill, which really really helped me. Today will be another YouTube workout and tomorrow will be up early for a run. I've also got my 10k steps every day except for Saturday, I think I would've gotten the steps on Saturday if I hadn't had to charge my Fitbit.   Eating has been going well also, last night I had a baked sweet potato (those are my thing lately) with salsa on it and a bit of cheddar cheese. After dinner I had enough calories leftover for a frozen yogurt bar, yum. This weekend was also a success for me because I was able to control my portions for wine. I had one glass of wine each night and weighed them so I knew exactly how much I was having: 4 oz Frida...

Lately, I haven't been super jazzed about running, not sure why, I just haven't been feeling it. The thought of going for a run just has me feeling..bleh. So with that, I've been eating meh and not focusing on myself. It's been tough and my body is definitely feeling it, I've been quite tired and moody, which happens every now and then but this really has been on another level and it's not good. Exercise always makes me feel good, but if I'm not excited about something, I'm not going to continue it, this usually happens when I get to this point with running, I don't feel connected with running and I just end up stopping. With that being said, I know I have to get back to doing it because it really is such a great workout.  I will, in time. I'll figure out a way to love it again. With that being said, in the meantime I really have to find something else to do that will help. So I turned to YouTube, there's THOUSANDS of workout videos there. ...