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Healthy You Check-In

by Mary

It is check in day… and I am not going anywhere near a scale.

I actually am moving today, going back to school, so my stuff is either packed or will soon be. I don’t feel like looking for the scale. And I know it will probably be a zero or gain, so I would rather look at this week by a different measurement.

Let’s just look at the challenge by this fact alone: I am so EXCITED. I am excited for these reasons:

  • This week wasn’t too bad. I did my workouts and ate well most of the time. I had a few bad meals, but it is because I went out so many times.
  • I kept track of everything I ate. I am sooo bad about journaling food, but I did a good job of keeping track of it all (the good, the bad) this week.
  • I am going back to school where I will most certainly be more active than I am at home with mom and the bro. Being at home is like a return to my old life when I constantly ate and never moved. A month and a half of being home and I am 20 pounds heavier. I am so excited to be leaving!
  • I have new tennis shoes that make me want to run and will make me run better and faster.

Overall I feel like it was a good week and there are only better ones to come! I hope everyone else has had great weeks. Time to go visit some blogs…

8 comments

1 Felicia { 01.29.08 at 5:21 pm }

SO glad you had a great week!! Good luck with your moving!!

Have a SUPER day!
*huggles*
=0)

2 Cammy { 01.29.08 at 8:08 pm }

Oh yeah, I’d say you had a great week! The new sneakers alone are reason enough to be excited. Congratulations on your progress, Mary, and good luck with school!

3 Heather { 01.30.08 at 12:26 am }

I think its really important to do what you did, and look at the positive things that you have accomplished that have nothing to do with the scale. sure, the sc ale helps you stay accountable and lets you know when you are slacking off, but it doesnt always tell the whole truth.

4 grumpy chair { 01.30.08 at 12:32 am }

Keep up the excitement! Good luck on your move back to school.

5 sybil { 01.30.08 at 4:58 am }

Excellent work on tracking your food. I have fought doing that for years and years as I think I just simply did not want to be accountable. Now it’s second nature but I have no clue how that happened!

Hope you enjoy your new shoes.

6 Martha { 01.30.08 at 5:59 am }

Kudos on the food journaling. I am so so so bad at that. I get caught up in it having to be perfect, then it becomes so tedious to me. I loved your post on first impressions. I know just what you mean! And you made me wonder about why my hair was platinum blond in high school….;-)

7 hanlie { 01.30.08 at 3:59 pm }

I like your positive energy! Keep it up!

8 Angela { 01.30.08 at 4:52 pm }

Thanks for the comment on my blog. I know what you mean by not wanting to look at the scale. Today was my WI day and I was so nervous. I didn’t think I lost anything at all, but I ended up losing 1.4 pounds. Good luck with your move and your weigh loss. :)

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