Candy yum... I have a huge sweet tooth...

Hey amiga, glad to see you poppin' in more again! BTW, have I said how much I like the new Avi?

Don't short yourself on the sleep (yah, hello hypocrite), for the work out, but yeah I can relate... been there.

Don't work too hard...

Yeah it's about time I get serious again. Now that I can workout again I feel like my eating better will actually be a useful tool and not just a deprevation one.

I am glad that you love the new avi.
I just got myself done over at the local salon. Was nervous as all get out since the girl doing my hair only graduated last yr. From high school that is!!!! LOL
Turned out really nice. I have been getting non-stop compliments from everyone. Makes a girl feel good.
Don't worry 'bout me working to hard. My motto is stay in the middle. This way when you do shoot for the moon it's really noticable. And when you don't really feel like getting anything done well it won't look so bad either. haha
Keeps me outta trouble that way.
Have a great weekend.

Okay so this weekend was a bit hit and miss.
Did so-so on the eating. They had the annual Christmas dinner at work. Turkey, ham, mashed taters, gravy, green beans, corn, roll and salad. Oh and pumpkin pie.
Had a small bit of everything. Well no turkey. It was swimming in some kind of sauce. Ewwww.
That was on Saturday.
I also biked 10 miles on Saturday getting it done in 40 minutes with and average of 16-17 mph. Came home and rode the elliptical for 45 minutes. Daily plate says I burned off 1010cals.
But then I basically put them all back on last night.
I am beginning to think that I am never going to get back on track.
Pretty digusted with myself right now.
I know better than all that.
Here's to a new start (again!).
'Cuz if I don't get this back under control and soon I will be right back to where I started.
I'm off to the Y.
Ciao

Dawn, did you say 10 miles at 16-17 mph? Like as in cycling on road or stationary? Stationary those numbers are solid, on road those numbers are exceptional.

I Knew I luv'd ya

Hey stranger! You and I must be riding the same train, cuz I'm just getting back on track (again) myself. I wanna know who laid the rails that makes the dang train get off the tracks?! You and me should find a different mode of transportation, eh?

That would be a stationary. Since Saturday I have ridden the bike 2 more times with 14 miles yesterday averaging 18mph and this morning (4:30am!!!) 13 miles averaging 19mph.
So all told since Saturday I have ridden a total of 37 miles!!!
Woohoo!!
Plan to hit the bike again tonight for an additional 13 miles to round it out to 50.
Would love to continue with the upward trend on the mph.
We'll see what happens.
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Took MIL Christmas shopping today. Weather was crappy. Rain, rain and more rain. Blech . I am not complaining to loudly mind you. Like the weather man said better wet stuff than white stuff. But still MIL doesn't like the cold as it is. Add in rain on top of it and you can see how great a day we had.
Did have lunch at Ruby Tuesday's. I LOVE their salad bar. Best one by far that I have ever had anywhere, hands down.
Got the soup and salad combo.
MIL got a burger with some fries which she promptly shoved 1/2 towards me. Ate a little less than 1/2.
Thinking of having Kashi Pizza for supper tonight. Mmmmmm. Tasty.
Well I got a meeting to run off to so will catch ya'll later.
Ciao

The best thing you can do is grab a friend to help motivate you. It always helps to have the extra support and sometimes it can turn into a competition!

Howdy Girly!!!
Glad to see ya back.
Yeah I am pretty tired of the tracks getting yanked up too. LOL
Maybe we should shoot for.......hmmmm.......let's see........a moped.
Then we can just zip along instead of barrel down on everything! hahaha

You've come a long way, and although we all have doubt enter our minds, you KNOW that you're on the right track--there's no falling off for good! Glad you're still putting exercise on top priority. Have fun at the Y!

So does all this bike riding make you a biker chick? Maybe Santa will bring you a leather biker outfit for Christmas.

Love ya, girl!

ooh, will it have assless chaps?

Bad cabbie! Stop it!

Sorry Dawn couldn't help myself... Kimberly made me do it....

Poppin' in real quick.
Mom is back at the hospital.........again.
She has cellulitis. You can look it up if you would like. As I have no time to go into lengthy descriptions. Hope that doesn't sound rude.
Family doc is recommending that she go to assited care for a while until she can get back on her feet again.
We are right in the middle of finding out if she will qualify or not. If she does than there is no cost for mom as her medicaid/medicare will pick it up. She got hurt real bad when I was a kid and is considered lifetime on the gov't/state ins.
Soooo I haven't had anymore time to get to the Y, except to go there to work of course. Not workout.
Hopefully things will calm down once we can get things straightened out with mom.
Anywho, just wanted you to all know that I hadn't run away or anything. Just been busy.
Catch everyone later.

I'm so sorry about your mom! Ugh, and sorry you haven't been able to get your workouts in--if in your position, I'd be rather frustrated! Hope you have fun this weekend, aiight???

Thanks Val for always stopping in with some love.
Update on Mom~
We were able to get her into the care facility that I wanted. Yeah!!! She gets released from the hospital today after lunch. She seems to be okay with the fact that she is going. I told her twice before when I had to take her to the hospital (Sept 24th with Pnumonia, and 2 weeks ago after a fall that dislocated a toe and cut her foot open) that if she had one more thing happen I would be forced to look for a place for her to go so that she could get herself back on her feet. I really think/hope that she is going to like it there. In fact they also offer assisted living as well as assisted care. Difference being living you have a small apartment and care is in a hospital room type setting. Looked into the issue to see if it was very expensive to stay in the living side and really it is not when you figure in all the things that they get. Food, linens, laundry services, chapel w/church on Sundays, heck they even have beauty shoppe on site that gets you a haircut once every 2 months. And that's just the stuff that I can think of off the top of my head.
I was told that right now there is a waiting list about 17 people long. That list is for "outsiders", people who are not in-house on the care side of the building. If they had someone (mom hopefully) who wanted to stay there she would automatically go to the top of the list since she is in-house.
I am praying that she really likes it there. I plan to bring the subject up after she has been there about 2 weeks. I figure by that time she should have had ample time to experiance most of the things that they offer and if she was going to be wanting to go back to her apartment that would be about the time that she would want to go.
Soooo I am really prayin' that she wants this. 'Cuz my stress levels are thru the roof with her. Always wondering if she is eating, taking her meds or falling down.
Like I said previously I have had no time to workout. I would like to get into the Y for myself on Monday. Hopefully that will be a reality.
Still floating around that 205 mark. It could be lower as my fingers are feeling swollen this morning and I definately have not been drinking my water in the last few days.
Well that's all that is going on here, as if that is not enough. LOL