Meh

Well, I finally did it. I worked through the plateau and finally lost 2 more pounds making that a total of 12. I feel so relieved! I was starting to feel that it was never going to happen...Again, I'm sorry for not updating much for the past couple of weeks, but in all honesty I just straight up have not felt like it. By the time I had time to do any writing during the day, I was too tired or lazy to actually do it... Adele was on-call last week, so it was pretty hectic and full. This past weekend, however, I did whole lotta relaxing. Lots of laying around, John's 5 year old niece's birthday dinner thrown in there, and actual girl time in SF on Sunday. Overall, it was a pretty great 2 days. Now, this coming weekend we are finally-FINALLY-moving to the new house completely. The movers are scheduled for 10 am on Friday and we'll be good to go. Adele bought herself a new bed, so she offered her old one to me (and by old, I mean like less than a year old) which means I'll have my first big girl bed. Yeah. I've only ever had a twin bed for my entire life, but now I'll actually have a queen! Amazingly enough, the bedspread I have is queen sized because it was the only one left where I bought it and I really wanted it...I guess I subconsciously knew...

I've been trying to change up my walking/running routine lately and I guess it worked! I've been taking different routes, switching up distances, going at different times of the morning, different paces, etc. Your body really can get bored and changing things up can kind of trick it into losing. It is really easy to get complacent in your routine and not even think about it. If you're beginning to feel bored with what you're doing, change something. It does wonders. But please make sure you're resting as well. If you don't give it a break it can shut down and do the opposite of what you want it to. I do it to myself more than I should and then when I finally realize it, good things happen. 

I was actually kind of amazed that I lost after this past weekend because, real talk, I ate some junk....Maybe it just wasn't as much as I had thought. Friday night, I cooked dinner for me and John which was a delicious chicken, red potato, and cooked carrot dish (literally just chicken breasts, cut up red potatoes, and carrots that I'd already cooked in a pot with a little butter, brown sugar, and salt, all thrown together and lightly seasoned with salt, pepper, and italian seasoning in a 9x13 baking dish and cooked for 1 hour at 350 degrees). 'Twas delicious and juicy. We had my pumpkin pancakes for brunch on Saturday, then at the birthday dinner, we had vegetarian pizza, butternut squash soup, and cabbage salad. Of course, it wouldn't have been a birthday without cupcakes...totally had a chocolate one...Sunday, I went to lunch with a couple of girl friends and had this amazing-AMAZING- cheddar and ham grilled cheese on sourdough at this sandwich place in the North Beach neighborhood. It was literally one of the best things I've ever tasted in my life... I think the key to the weekend was that my body got rest, I didn't over-eat at any meal, and there was no eating in between the meals. If only I could do that every day...

Seriously, if I could sleep in every day, I'd probably be at my goal and then some. No joke. When I sleep in, I'm able to distribute what would have been my breakfast calories into the other two main meals of the day and I feel full for more of the day and have less tendency to want to snack. But since I can't sleep in every day, I have to control myself. Wanting to be healthy really sucks. Not really. But really. I'm extremely proud of myself so far this week because I've done a good job of keeping myself busy and not focused on food. I didn't do anything active yesterday simply because I just didn't wanna. Sometimes that's ok, especially after making progress weight-loss-wise over the weekend. When I weighed this morning, I was exactly the same as yesterday, so no harm done. I walked 3 miles today and I feel good about it. Instead of going this morning, I just waited until close to the time that I go to get Isa and just walked around the neighborhood and then got her and walked home. I like that set-up.

I lucked out and got tomorrow off because I have to work a little extra this evening and I'm pretty pumped about it. I've really had a hard time falling asleep this week and feeling super groggy in the mornings, so a chance to sleep will do wonders for me. I also have to take as much of my stuff as I can to the new house so that it will be easier for the movers on Friday. So, relaxing morning-busy day. I'll take it.