My Journey Through Life

Weight loss has been slow the last month so I was thrilled to look down at the scale today and see that I lost 2 pounds since last Sunday!  My Stepson got married yesterday. It was a beautiful day with a lovely ceremony outside. They are having their reception in two weeks, so they just had snacks at the house after the ceremony yesterday. I ate some things that I didn't count in my calorie log - but I took a long walk yesterday morning so it worked out.  I love it when I have success like that, it proves that I can enjoy myself and still lose weight. I don't have to deprive myself all of the time. 34 pounds down and 29 to go...I am more than halfway to my goal!!! It is funny how our perspectives change - yesterday I was mad cause some of the pants that I wanted to wear were too big for me!!! Have a great and healthy week!

Another pound lost this week!  Glad to see that myfitnesspal.com  tracker updated to my total pounds lost!  It seems that the longer I go, the harder it is to lose weight.  I don't feel that I can cut my calories back any more.  I plan to increase my exercise in order to continue to lose weight.  When I try to restrict my calories too much, I end up falling off the healthy eating wagon and gaining all the weight back.  I won't do that again!  I can't do that again! I naturally don't need as many calories, but if I try to cut back to less than 1300 calories a day, I know I will fail. It is so great to have so many pants that won't fit me anymore...for the right reason...they are too big!! Have a great night!!

We had a wonderful day yesterday. Loaded a bunch of brush into the truck and took it to the dump. On the way home we stopped at a greenhouse and bought some hanging baskets and other flowers.  Today, when we were transplanting the plants and flowers, I put some of them (I think they are perennials) in the ground in our new little flower garden.  The bulbs I planted a couple of weeks ago are not growing, but I am not giving up on them until next year.  The flower bed doesn't look very full now, but I also want to add some wildflowers that are supposed to attract butterflies.  Keeping up with the weeds will be the biggest challenge.

I was especially happy to see the scale show a one pound loss this week.  I have been right at the top of my calorie goals for the last two days.  I have balanced that with some extra exercise - so I guess it worked! We have had such a nice time on this little 'staycation'.  Today I am concentrating on cleaning, and hanging new curtains.  This morning, I hoped to avoid the heat of the day by transplanting flowers at 8 am. That didn't work - we got it done, but I think I sweated off an extra pound!  It was already very hot! Time to go back to some house cleaning! Have a beautiful, peaceful day!

Today is the first day of my five day vacation.  I really need this...to just unplug and relax. My goal is to not stress out - or make demands on myself or my husband.  I sometimes get so caught up in plans that I end up not truly enjoying my time off.  I am going to do some gardening, cleaning, relaxing, reading, writing, resting and of course, spending time with my beloved husband! Have a great week!!

I was looking for a new profile picture and I came across this pic from last year.  My sister, niece and I were attending  Women of Faith  in Hartford, CT.  This was in November of 2012.  It was good to look at this picture - it really let me see how much weight I have lost!!  It is good to look back and know that I look better now - helps to put it into perspective. It is tough to  think that I have another 30 plus pounds to lose.  This picture helped me to appreciate what a difference the 30 pounds I have lost have made! Happy Memorial Day!

No loss this week, but that's better than gaining!!!  I don't know why I didn't lose any weight this week. It is kind of depressing, but I am going to keep doing what I have been doing...working out...watching what I eat...next week will be productive!! As I think back, I wonder how different my life would be if I had made different decisions.  As I reflected on my life-changing choices, I wrote the following article to sum up how I feel as I approach my 50s. This article was published on the Yahoo! Contributor Network...I hope you enjoy it! " When I graduated from high school and ventured into my twenties, I wish I had known that everything would be okay. It would have made life so much more bearable if I had known that, no matter what, I would end up happy. I used to think that if I could go back in time, I would visit myself when I was about 24, before I accepted an engagement ring from my first husband. I thought that it would be marvelous to go back and tell...