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| In my world, this is irony |
Weekly Weigh-In
No surprise. I dropped 3.8 lbs (1.7 kgs). Given that I had gained 5 lbs (2.6 kgs) on my vacation, I anticipated dropping a few
water weight type pounds this week. I certainly don’t expect another large loss
next week. My goal is now 0.5 lb (0.2
kg) per week because I am closer to my goal weight and anticipate that the
weight loss will decrease. By decreasing
my goal, I ensure that I’ll continue to feel successful as I continue to work
towards my fitness goals.
This is the longest I’ve gone with progress.
When doing the
online boot camp, I had
success but that lasted only the 3 months and I could not afford to subscribe
to the boot camp after that.
Having a set
of DVDs that cost me a flat fee and I can use over and over again without buying
more . . . well, that’s just the more logical choice than a subscription that
costs more than the set of DVDs.
Of course, Rob would point out that, when you add up how
much I’ve spent on DVDs this year, including the DVDs that were given to me as
gifts from my children, it’s over what I would have spent on the boot camp so
it’s a good thing I found a combination of workouts that works or I’d be super
frustrated right about now.
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| I just need to make time to color |
Amazon is amazing,
sometimes
While up north, my mother bought me a couple of coloring books
(
Secret Garden and
Enchanted Forest) and some
markers.
The book does
encourage you to use felt tip markers.
But then I read the reviews and I was surprised to learn that the colors
bleed through the paper.
I decided to
pick up some pencils while I was out with Kanika yesterday.
I was originally thinking of investing in
Prismacolor ones but I didn’t realize how expensive they are.
Ouch.
If I were a professional artist and/or drawing something that I planned
on selling, it would be worth the (business) expense.
But I just want a set for hobby purposes so I
bought some far less expensive ones and called it a day.
I’ll test the markers on the title page and
see if they do, indeed, bleed.
If so, I
won’t use them.
If they don’t bleed, I
may use them with the pencils to get more nuanced shading and such in my
coloring.
We’ll see.
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| Taken yesterday evening |
First I have to make
time
This past week feels like a lost opportunity. In trying to
catch up with everything, I accomplished very little.
And I know this is not true, that I did do
things.
I packed up a box of books to be donated to
the local library, researched a few things for our upcoming trip, spent time
with Bibi, with my daughter-in-law, with one of my friends, and, of course,
with Rob.
I exercised daily, made a
doctor’s appointment, planned meals, etc.
I just didn’t write down any to-do lists and, as a result, I
feel like I accomplished nothing.
So today, after I have breakfast, I’m going
to sit down with a
planner and start getting a grip on a few things.
I have ten weeks to get ready for the next
trip, just over six weeks to get ready for some company coming into town, and
that’s plenty of time for me to get some things done.
Yesterday Rob and I were talking about our respective
programs (he’s doing Tony Horton's P90 while I’m doing Jillian Michaels’ Body Revolution and
Chalene Johnson’s PiYo) and about our fitness goals. I mentioned to him that I want to be able to
do 10 full-body push-ups by June 2016.
He said I can probably do one now, if I only try.
