C-Phat...My journey from fat to 'phat'

Gained: 1.4 pounds
Emotion: Relieved
Total Weight Lost: 12.8 lbs

So after 4 weeks of doing terrible I only gained 1.4 lbs! I'm relieved because I thought it would be WAY more!

I've been staying on track with my eating. For dinner on Monday night, I made chicken Caesar salad. It was so good. Tonight I'm for sure going to the gym after work. No excuses! Husband has plans for tomorrow to go out for dinner and drinks again with the SILS but I think I'll excuse myself and have a good gym workout and healthy dinner at home instead.

FAMILY UPDATE
SIL#1 and SIL#2 are still here looking for a place to live and work here. SIL#2 might be buying an apartment in the SAME building as us. Oh JOY! That's too close for comfort in my books. But I'm trying not to react until its set in stone. Just the other night she said how she doesn't like "drastic changes." I couldn't help myself, so I replied and said "What? But you are moving across the country? Isn't that a drastic change?!" She didn't have much to say back to that. Its not that I don't like them, I just don't understand them!!! They have some strange ideas/ways and I'm trying to get over them, but I think it will take some time.

Posted by Cyrena at 5:27 PM | 4 comments Links to this post    

YES! I'm back baby! After 4 weeks of utter chaos and one weekend of hard work, finally our apartment is done being renovated and all back in order. We cooked at home last night for the first time in a MONTH!! We went grocery shopping yesterday for the first time in a MONTH! I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I can breathe again!

The day after my last post about moving and being all stressed, everything changed again!! So we are NOT moving and NOT selling our apartment to SIL#2. Instead she is going to try to buy the townhouse we wanted. So its a bit of a switcharoo but I think its better for everyone. I LOOOVE our newly renovated apartment, so it will be nice to live in it and actually get to enjoy it! SIL#1 and SIL#2 are in town right now. They are scouting out places to work and trying to get the townhouse. They are staying in a hotel because they have dogs (yahoo!) and our apartment building doesn't allow visitor's dogs. These past few days we have been eating out and drinking with them alot. This WILL change today as I am back on track. I won't let them get in the way of working out and eating right.

I'm re-committing myself to my healthy lifestyle. I went seriously off track these last 4 weeks and I have alot of hard work ahead to make up for it!

I promise to - snack on only fruits and veggies
I promise t0 - workout 5 times a week
I promise to - eat a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner
I promise to - get 8 hours of sleep every night
I promise to - drink 8 glasses of water every day

Instead of having frozen meals for lunch and dinner, I'm only going to have them for lunch. For dinner I got some skinless boneless chicken breast and veggies. So I'll grill the chicken and have it with veggies or a salad. Nothing fancy as my cooking skills aren't that great, but I think its healthier than the frozen meal. No more puddings after dinner either!!

So far today I've had my healthy yogurt/blueberry/kashi parfait for breakfast. I've had 3 glasses of water and I'm snacking on yellow peppers. After work I'm going to hit the gym for some treadmill time.

Posted by Cyrena at 1:54 PM | 3 comments Links to this post    

Forgive me for I have sinned.

For the past 2 weeks I have not exercised and I have eaten out for practically every meal. I am DREADING facing the scale. I know that I have gained weight. I can see it and I can feel it. My life has been upside down these past two weeks. I had no kitchen or living room due to renovations and we are living/eating in our bedroom and office. Hence the eating out alot. We have no space or functionality in our kitchen to do anything! These renovations are taking ALOT longer than the contractors originally said. They have assured us that they will be all done by Saturday but we'll see.

In other news, we are selling our place and moving again. I have really mixed feelings about this. I totally love our new place (offer accepted pending financing). Its a 3 level townhouse with a rec room downstairs (plenty of space for a home gym! yay!). It has 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths and a deck. Having a deck but no yard is perfect for me as I really want an outdoor space but don't have the time or desire to do yard work. The townhouse is in really good condition and with a few minor cosmetic updates it will look fabulous!

Now for the mixed feeling part. We are selling our apartment to Husbands sister. For easier reference lets call them SIL#1 and SIL#2. So SIL#2 is buying the apartment but both SIL's are planning on moving here. As I've said before, I love them but they are alot to handle. They take alot of time and energy and its always drama drama drama with them. I have been getting super stressed out with the idea of having them so close by. I guess what I'm really scared of is losing my lifestyle/routine and having to "share" my husband. Husband and his sisters are really close and I know they will want to spend alot of time with him. That's totally OK but I just don't want to feel like its a tug-of-war for his attention/time. Man, I sound like a selfish biatch here. But seriously people they are crazy! When we told them that our new place is about 20 minutes away they said "Oh great, we can come over with our two dogs and have a sleepover on the weekends." First of all - WTF!? A sleepover? What are we, 5 years old? And um NO, you can go home, you only live 20 minutes away. And two dogs in our nice clean townhouse that has no yard? No thanks! I'd rather not deal with that mess! I'm going to avoid this situation by not furnishing our spare bedroom until we have family from out of town coming. That way there are no extra beds! Tee hee! *evil grin*


One good thing about this is that we will be busy working and they will be busy working once they find jobs. I'm determined to set my boundaries with them from the beginning as well. I don't always have to say yes to everything they want to do. I hate feeling obligated/guilted into doing things because its family. I know it sounds like I'm over reacting but remember last time they were here? Their behaviour was ridiculous and soo rude! I didnt want to say anything at the time to them because it was a holiday for them and I didnt want to ruin it. But you can bet your bottom I'm going to speak up now.

Oh and on top of this whole renovating/selling/buying stuff my mother in law (MIL) is coming from France for a visit in September. I have only met her twice since I've been with Husband. I won't go into major details but basically she abandoned her family/husband in Canada to shack up with some guy in France. This has caused major strain on all the family relationships. Now Husband and his mom are at a place where he wants to see her so that is why she's coming. AND on top of all this happening we are going to Mexico in September for a week. These next few months are going to be crazy busy and stressful. I'm not looking forward to it (well except for the Mexico part).

Once we have our kitchen back, I'm going to get seriously back on track with eating right. Also I will commit myself to working out no less than 5 times a week. I have alot to make up for with my 2 week slack off.

Posted by Cyrena at 2:29 PM | 3 comments Links to this post    

So no weigh in this week. But I have a super good excuse...I could not find my scale. Seriously! Our condo is being renovated so all of the contents of the kitchen (I keep my scale in the kitchen) and living room are piled in the middle of the living room and covered in plastic sheets. I'm pretty sure the scale was buried in the middle of the pile of couches, chairs and other things. To tell you the truth, I'm kind of relieved not to have to face the scale this week.

I'm happy to report that I'm back on track with working out! Tonight after work, I'm going straight home, putting my gym clothes on and going for a minimum 45 minute treadmill workout.

I dont think I'm going to meet my goal of losing 22.8 more pounds by Sept 19th but I'm going to try to lose at least 5.8 pounds. That will make a total of 20 pounds lost. And at 20 pounds lost I'll take progress pictures!

Posted by Cyrena at 6:58 PM | 1 comments Links to this post