In exactly 4 weeks, I’ll be in Jamaica! That is way exciting, but also makes me sad that I only have 4 weeks left to work on my body shape. Eek! That is pretty much zero time, considering how slow I have been at losing. And it’s also scary because there is stuff going on every weekend until we leave that will make it hard to lose weight. My upcoming plans include a fancy anniversary dinner, wedding cake, a going away party, a game night, a baby shower, sweet tomatoes buffet dinner (hello blueberry muffin overdose), renaissance festival, and Easter.

I got in about 35 minutes of weights work after my first post today. I think part of the reason I want to do P90X is to have a program to follow and I know I’m not training the wrong muscles at a time or whatever. I like doing a little of everything and just doing weights every other day instead of one body part every day because I can do it faster and get more done overall, and then I know I’m not accidentally working the same muscle 2 days in a row.

Thank goodness the cold weather seems to be over! Of course, since it’s so warm today, that means rain is going to be visiting for the next few days, probably ruining my chance of walking with mom tomorrow. But I am SO glad to see no more lows of 40s appearing in the 10-day forecast. Hopefully we’re done with that for the season. I would like my plants to grow back now, please!

Alrighty. Yesterday ended out ok, no nuts again, but I did have 110 calories of chocolate caramels AND some sf pudding, which is more than I should have done.

Once again I have insomnia but I swear I heard something that woke me up at 1:30am and now I can’t get back to sleep.
I am struggling with the whole blog thing. Since I consistently (and some would say constantly) do Twitter and Facebook for Ingles Markets it seems to be just one more layer of busyness that I might not need to add. Yet it also occurs to me that within blogging I would be able to write more than just those 140 characters in the Twitter block.

I forgot to mention I got to reclaim a pair of jeans this weekend. I have been basically switching between the 2 pair of jeans that fit me which I bought around November when nothing was fitting. One a size 12 and one 14 which fit about the same but I guess the brands are sized that much differently. They both were getting pretty uncomfortable to wear by new years and are now far from that. Anyway, I came across the size 10 pair I was wearing at the end of last summer, and now they fit fine too.

So, I’ve managed to stay under 170 for 3 days in a row! It’s not a big loss, but I am sitting happy at 169.2 today. Especially since the weekend involved plenty of temptation.
Friday I worked my butt off before I went out. Total of 80 minutes, and I threw a lot of kickboxing into my cardio. I got what I was planning on for dinner, citrus grilled chicken which came with 3 sides, and I picked veggies (ended up being just broccoli), side salad w viniagrette, and my splurge item, sweet potato fries which were totally worth it.

Because I have WORKED IT OFF this weekend. Seriously. I am SO sore, geez!!! I can hardly sit down or stand up because moving my legs and butt like that totally hurts. Haha.

Just thought I’d leave you with that thought. I will post more, but it might not be until Monday. Just know the weekend is going pretty well, not perfect, but definitely active!

Or I’m going to have them at least. I just got done with workout 1 for the day a little while ago. I decided to attack some weights again, for the THIRD time this week, go me. I muscled through it for 35 minutes, getting in 3 sets of almost everything I did. I also looked up new leg exercises I can do at home to start incorporating, because I couldn’t think of much more than lifts, squats, and lunges, and was doing a lot more with arms/shoulders/back.

Well, last night I did really well keeping portions down at dinner, but then I hit a can of nuts and also had 2 chocolate caramels at 55 calories each. Ok, I didn’t eat the whole can of nuts, but I kept going back for a few more until I was getting out of control and I did not like that feeling. Luckily, before I finished off the can, I flossed and brushed my teeth and then did 30 minutes of weights in addition to the 45 total cardio minutes I’d done earlier in the day.

I forgot to say that last Sunday, the evil little girls were outside of Publix with their loaded stacks of goodies.. and I didn’t buy any!!

Samoas are my absolute favorite!! In fact, I even had girl scout cookies as my wedding favors! Each little box we made up had one samoa, one tagalong (hubby’s fave & my second fave) and 2 thin mints, just because those are the most popular cookies. I really don’t like mint though, so I never eat thin mints. Mint just reminds me of toothpaste, and I think that’s where it should stay.

I am really proud of myself for resisting. My mom has already ordered boxes of these, so I figured if I really wanted, I could go to her house and have one or 2 cookies, and leave the rest with her, so I do not go through a whole box myself, which I easily could in probably 2 days.