Holding my own

Healthy lunch

Yum

Trying my best to stay on track

Red white and blue salad

Working on it

Spinning at the y

Going down

Serious salad

I am back

I feel like I am just coming out of a self induced hibernation.... I moved out and left john seven months ago and just now am I starting to feel like myself again. The last seven months have felt like a blur and like I was going through the motions.  I am healing and its time to make me a priority again.

My jobs walking challenge really did reignite my passion and I am ready to find a happy medium that can last a lifetime. I anticipate more frequent postings here now that I am feeling more myself.

Thanks for hanging around

Back on track

Hi

This is a long overdue update

weight 140 ( it is what it is)


I won the week 3 step challenge at work. I have been walking a lot for exercise. I have not been to the Y in awhile since Liv's gymnastics classes and sat classes ended, I got out of my routine.

Hoping to get back into a new summer workout routine.


all is well... can improve on some things and plan on writing that all out soon

Healthy steps and snacking

Step Challenge

My job is having a month long 10,000 step challenge... starting on Monday.. and there will be prizes.


they bought us cheap pedometers, I gave mine to Liv because I love my fit bit. So basically we track our steps and there will be agency level prizes amongst my 12 co-workers and then county level winners. I already do pretty well. I average about 7,000 steps and 3 miles per day. I am excited and hoping this gives me a renewed sense of competition and finding my mojo again.


full disclosure- I have my lazy days to where I am lucky to get over 4,000 steps

also I am going on a business trip in a few weeks ( so sad about leaving Liv, but also excited for the training ) and to kick off the anniversary of community action they are having a 10 k ( 6 miles) walk/run.  My boss really wants me to do it with her so she is not walking alone... I was feeling a little overwhelmed by the 6 miles... but I just heard today that they dropped it to a super 5 k, 4 miles...so that should be a little easier.

am I the only one who feels uncomfortable in unfamiliar situations and locations?  we will be walking on a long narrow bike path and for some reason the thought stresses me mildly... specifically not being able to see my end destination. Ever since I got lost with Liv snow shoeing... I like knowing where I am going... but I will be with a large group of walkers & runners and I can do this. I am not going to let fear keep me from a goal.. I have been wanting to do a 5 k for a long time.

Still standing

Hi

I am still here...... I have been giving all my blogging love to my new normal blog... as you can imagine being newly separated,  recently moved, new job, and new school for Liv is a big amount of changes and I am venting my heart out. I am trying very hard to take care of myself and not let go of my priorities... its harder now... that I am a single Mom and I can only spread myself so thin.

I am still doing my thing.. my weight is about 140... but my clothes are still fitting the same... but I would prefer to be down 5 lbs.... but you know what.. I am not stressing over it. It is a number on a scale.

My job is having this daily step challenge and I am excited because there will be prizes.... woot!!!
So I am really looking forward to the nice weather so I can get walking.


I am here... doing my thing in a dialed down fashion.... but soon I hope to step it up

Dinner

Lunch was so filling,I had the whole yam...so I feel like a light dinner

Balanced lunch

1/2 yam with butter and brown sugar
Spinach
Meatloaf

Balance

Hello my loyal reader ( the few of you who check in)


I have been down the last few weeks.. I am on my second round of antibiotics to clear this painful dental abscess that has caused a lump in my gums. The antibiotic's have wreaked havoc on my lady bits and am on another med to clear up that infection... honestly they both are even in the level of suckiness they bring to my life. Nothing makes me crankier than a yeast infection.


My weight is around 140...I would prefer it to be at 135.... but ya know... I am not going to beat myself up over it. I am not exercising 5 days a week or eating ultra strict like I did not get to 133,I am not drinking protein shakes daily... but I would like to have them once a week cause I like them. I am living a more balanced life.... a  life as a single Mom. I can make improvements and sure as hell plan to once I get both of these infections cleared.  I am just dog tired now.

I am working out about 3 days a week...usually. Eating healthy most of the time.

so thanks for sticking around.... hoping to be back with my usual zest and motivation soon

Doing my thing

Played basketball with liv and burned a ton of calories...and a salad assembly line...dinner for me and liv...lunch for tomorrow

still here

Hi All,

Healing from a dental emergency.... I have been seeing a dentist and edodontist at Case, working towards a comprehensive plan to fix my teeth... first priority was the tooth that was causing me some grief.  Then last weekend my tooth that I had two root canals on starting really bugging me..it never stopped bugging me but the pain became unbearable. I had my third root canal on tooth #29 on  3/17/14.... It was a tough call - to try to save it or pull it. I totally went in there expecting to ask for it to be pulled. It was never really done right so I opted to try to save it. After all these are specialist with state of the art equipment. After that I started swelling up bad on my gum line and I was having severe pain and pressure building up... I could hardly talk without being in pain and  the pain killers were not touching it...then 3/20/17 after talking to my dentist on the phone, I went back for a emergency surgery to drain my abscess and a apiectomy... oh my that was dreadful....


I was near tears when I told the doctor.. Listen .. I have a life.. I can't be consumed with managing this tooth pain.... they are asking me to be patient and give it time to settle and for the infection to heal. I am on antibiotics and hoping & praying that this time it works. I am feeling better each day... today was my first day being able to function with no pain pills.... so that is a start.

words of wisdom

" You can't out exercise a bad diet"


It's 80% food choices and 20% exercise... or so they say

I have been doing good with my exercise.. consistent.

My weight is up.....not pleased... when I take a good long look at my intake I think snacking is still my downfall that and emotional eating depression. I realize I don't know what to do with myself when Liv is with her dad... come summer I can get out & about more. But I think I medicated myself with wine & cheese & crackers & olives & chocolate. I fell off the my fitness pal food dairy wagon... I did that daily for 1.5 years... after awhile I guess I figured I had a good sense of calories. I am back at tracking my intake.


It will be ok. I am back on track. I just have to ask myself  " why am I eating this? am I bored? am I lonely? "

Busy Mom

Hi All,

We are in the midst of one of the most brutal winters ever... geesh.. when will it end?. I really don't recall such a long stretch of bad weather. I am doing my thing over here..working out three days a week. Monday, Thursday and Saturday. This summer when Liv attends summer camp at the Y, I am planning on working out in the early mornings after dropping Liv at camp at 7.30, working out, freshening up and then heading to work. I look forward to getting my workouts done in the morning again.



I have been spending my Mondays off trying to get my dental work completed, I am going to a school so its a process... a very long process. I have been there three times already and still no work has been done. Its a hour drive each way, I need to schedule an extra 15 minutes for walking to my destination from the parking garage and then the actual apt takes 2.5 hours because the student needs to run every step by her dentist professor whom she has to hunt down. What an ordeal... but a $40 cleaning versus the $150 the regular dentist charges makes it worthwhile. I was just thinking today about the craptastic weather when it comes to my long dentist commute. In Dec I canceled my dental apt due to the weather, In Jan it was 30 below when I went to the dentist, In Feb I drove through a blizzard and today March 3rd..we are recovering from a power outage, a winter storm and below zero temps.


I am blogging less overall because this single Mom business is no joke... Its all on me...therapy appointments, picking up, dropping off, play dates, gymnastics, packing lunches... it does not leave much time for anything else. I am doing my best.

Sunday lunch

Hot Buns

I strained a glute muscle. I was planning to go to the Y today to round out my week. Lately I have been working out on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays at the Y. I think I had the incline too high on the treadmill... whenever I push it to much with the incline I tend to get some butt/hip soreness. so Today I am taking it easy.


Good news.. I now have health insurance.

so ready for spring

where was i?

worked out three days this week... woot!!!!

trying to get out of the polar vortex slump... pretty darn chilly, snowy and sucky weather.. can't wait for spring.


My new phone... a cheapy downgrade nokia has the worst camera ever...no flash... uggh.. I am having serious camera withdrawl and had become so used to my good camera on my old phone. I want to save for an I phone.


doing my thing over here... how are you all doing?

On the right track

Healthy Chinese

This was moo goo gai pan and it seemed really light...not fried or sweet,no heavy sauce, just lots of yummy veggies

A new fav

A little high in fat, but filling and high in fiber and protein

Check in

Morning weigh in 138

Working hard and making smarter choices

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week 82- Landslide

morning weight 140 ( Gulp)


Yeah so my holiday indulging and separation " who gives a fuck" attitude have caught up with me....I can account for all those lbs from poor food choices and inactivity. I am back on track now... but I would be lying if I did not admit that I am upset with myself.


I can't kick myself when I am down.. all I can do it pick myself up, dust myself off and get to work. My depression has defiantly had an affect on my will power and motivation. I went to get a hair cut the other day as a pick me up and ended up hating it because it's too short... let me rephrase that.. I don't hate the cut... I just wish it was longer. In 8 weeks it will be just fine.


Going through a separation is hard... but I need to take care of myself... I must. I just feel like I have not had the energy.

so I am attempting to get myself back on track.

Yum

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