sadinplaid's Journal

Been a while...
Oct 11 2009 12:01

It's been a while since I've been on, but a lot of good things have been keeping me busy. I started a new job as a credit counselor for a nonprofit organization. We try to help people get their debt under control. I really love my job. It's 8-5, Monday through Friday, and I'm taking 2 classes in grad school this semester. When I first started workin I stopped counting calories. I felt like my life was too full and too busy to deal with dieting, luckily during that first couple of weeks I did really well at maintaining. Now that I'm in a groove at work, getting used to the schedule and feeling so busy I've added calorie counting back into my routine (haven't gotten back into exercising yet, but it's coming). I lost 2 pounds this week, putting me at the halfway point, 35 more pounds to go. Hope everyone here has been doing well!

Posted some old pics
Sep 09 2009 18:46

And can I just say ugh?

Lazy day...
Sep 07 2009 13:41

We're halfway through our 2 week break from parenting (my daughter's at her grandma's house) and I have gone totally slack. Sitting up reading all night, sleeping most of the day, ignoring laundry and dishes. I should be using this time to get things done that are impossible to do when she's home - like cutting grass, and cleaning out closets, and shampooing carpets. I still have a week to get it together. =)

Last I talked about my job interview, I was waiting to hear from them to meet the corporate supervisor and to pass a credit check. On the 2nd I got an alert on my credit that someone had checked it (it was the credit counseling center), and that afternoon they called me to schedule me to meet the corporate supervisor. So apparently my credit was good enough for them to call. Now I'm just waiting til Wednesday when I meet the corp. sup. Her office is 4 hours away. I just hope that Wednesday she likes me, hires me, and lets me start right away.

I'm not obese anymore.
Aug 31 2009 21:54

I haven't done measurements or BMI in a while, so I decided to do so tonight.

On May 16 2009, this is what I had written:

Weight: 218

BMI: 34

Waist: 40

Hips: 48

Thigh: 28

Chest: 40

Tonight, August 31, 2009 this is what I got:

Weight: 191 (27 pounds lost)

BMI: 29.9

Waist: 35 (5 inches lost)

Hips: 44 (4 inches lost)

Thigh: 26 (2 inches lost)

Chest: 37 (3 inches lost)

And I'm just regular overweight now! Not obese. Cool.

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you...
Aug 28 2009 13:04

I think my subject line is a line in a song.

I've been out of commission. Probably not the flu, but an achey feeling in my neck and head, a runny nose, a terrible sore throat, and now the joys of chest congestion and cough. Been living on mucinex and benadryl.

Now, the good news:

My mom and mother-in-law are taking my daughter down to where they live for TWO whole weeks! I'm sure after three days, I'll miss her, but all I can think is, "Two weeks of sleeping in. Silly, fun labor day weekend swimming and drinking!"

I... had... a.... JOB INTERVIEW! The job: Credit Counsellor at a nonprofit organization that does budgting, debt management, and bankruptcy counselling for it's clients. Pay is right where I need it. Benefits are fantastic. Hours are perfect. And they want me! The woman interviewing me told me she would hire me on the spot because I am by far the best candidate she's seen, but I have to pass a credit check and meet their corporate supervisor before she can give me the official nod. (I have perfect credit, and I don't know how the corporate supervisor won't love me. Seriously.) So, she showed me my new OFFICE - big and shiny with shelves in the wall and an L-shaped desk and introduced me to all of my soon-to-be new co-workers! Hopefully I'll be able to meet the corporate supervisor this coming up week. The problem is that she works at the main branch about 4 hours away. *does a little dance*

Other good news... I lost three pounds this week. Lost one last week. Puts my total over 30 now. I started the new rules of lifting for women with my bestie, and we've stuck to it really well - I think we're going into week 3 today. I had dumbbells and an exercise ball, so she bought the barbell and the step, and we store it all in the closet under my stairs. I'm glad she drug me into this program for 2 reasons: First, my gym routine was seriously slacking. I was bored of it, and not motivated enough to revamp it myself. Second, I really feel like this workout is effective despite how little time it takes out of my week. The exercises that the book has us doing really give me an allover-worked out feel. Like doing deadlifts makes me ache from shoulders to butt cheeks; almost all of the exercises make my core feel tighter.

This is probably long enough. I'm gonna go hunt up my husband a birthday present. =) 

Saturday! Sweet Saturday!
Aug 15 2009 09:16

It's 9a.m. Been watching the Golden Girls and playing with Natalie and enjoying drinking my entire pot of coffee. I somehow managed to drop a pound this week. I haven't been to the gym in 2 weeks, it doesn't even reopen until Monday. Sundays are my day to sleep in that my husband gets up with our daughter, so I'm going to wake up tomorrow well-rested, get straight into workout clothes, and just be active all day. I'm thinking calisthenics between loads of laundry and vaccuuming. Free weights after grocery shopping. Yard work in the evening.

Yesterday I got ingredients for 2 desserts in my WeightWatchers cookbook. I don't do WW anymore, but I appreciate them telling me the amount of servings per recipe and the nutritional info. So yesterday I made raspberry chocolate brownies that were probably around 250 cal a piece, and tomorrow I'm making a banana cream pie. I didn't appreciate the texture of the brownies too much (though my husband apparently didn't mind since the pan was empty when I woke up this morning), so hopefully the banana cream will turn out better.

We're having dinner with the local Vegetarian Society tonight at the Earth Fare Market. This organic grocery store near our house has a really fresh, healthy buffet in its deli/bakery area, and the couple nights a month our group meets there to eat, the chef makes half of the buffet vegan-friendly. It's always really good.

Alright, that's all I got for now.

Post-Vacation Funk
Aug 12 2009 20:50

Coming out of the mountains and back into the allergy-infested part of Georgia I live in has left me feeling almost flu-ish, which blows since 2 weeks before my vacation I was also sick. But the other part of my post-vacation funk is that I really believed I would be coming home to job interviews, and I still don't have even a phone call... I spent almost all day today in my snuggie on my couch, wasting my life on the internet. My gym is closed. It's raining all week, so I can't even sneak into my neighbor's pool to relax. I have no energy. I haven't washed my hair yet this week. Blegh.

Ok... so positive thoughts. Right. I'm going to get interviews. Someone is going to see how competent I am despite my lacking experience. I registered for my MBA classes which start Monday, and I got one of my $100 books off Amazon for $4. I'm taking three MBA classes, and I decided to audit a weight training class so two days a week I'll have someone instructing my weight lifting, and I've chosen three other days a week to hit the gym for cardio this semester. At least if I remain unemployed that's one less excuse I have to let all my good healthy habits go down the drain.

Good news!
Aug 10 2009 23:10

My struggle to sneak into my neighbor's pool when she's away from home or out of town is finally over! She's a school teacher, and she went back to work today, so until it gets cold or I get a day job, you know where I'll be every day! Woohooo!

Back from vacation!
Aug 09 2009 11:06

Been gone for 9 days with my daughter and mom. It feels like we've been gone forever! We spent one night in Virginia, then spent two nights in W. Virginia for a wedding, then spent two nights in Ohio with my Aunt and Uncle, then spent the rest of the trip in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Right before my trip, I was back up to 202 (*sad the 100's came and went so fast*), and I was worried I was going to gain weight on the trip. It's so hard eating all of your meals in the car and in restaurants! But the hotel in Gatlinburg had a fridge, so we hit the grocery store and tried to eat 1 or 2 meals each day in our room - tomato sandwiches, cereal, grapes, and bananas. We got back yesterday, and this morning the scale says 201, so I'm pretty thrilled with myself. I only ran once the whole trip, that was at the hotel in Va. My mom and I walked a good bit in Gatlinburg, and I took the stairs to our 4th floor room as often possible. We only went swimming once because my daughter kind of hated it to start.

It was a great trip, but I'm glad to be home, sleeping in my own bed again. I'm getting ready to head to the grocery store, get some stuff to get back into my routine. Also, my campus gym is closed this week while classes are out, so I'm hunting for ideas for working out. I found a couple of gyms that offer a free 1-4 day trial period, and a friend of mine gets free invites to her cardio-lifting class, so I'm going to try that, along with sneaking into my neighbor's pool until classes start back next week. =)

Today was the day!
Jul 21 2009 12:52

This morning the scale said 1-9-9! Under 200 for the first time in 3 years! That's 24 pounds gone since May, 100 pounds gone since Jan 2008. *Whoop there it is!*