Good morning, Friends!
Yesterday's weigh in was a tough cookie to swallow. It was heavy, very heavy.
Today is a LOT better! I'm down a whopping 1.9 kilos since yesterday. To help my buddy FullaBella with the conversion, this would equal just about 4 lbs. ;)
It's a general guideline that one kilo pretty much equals two lbs. Just about.
Anyways, yesterday went great. I stuck to my plan all the way, did my exercise, spent most of the day standing up at work, for that little EXTRA calorie burn, and just had no trouble at all doing this. Boy, it's a lot easier when motivation is there.
So, I woke up this morning at 1 AM. Or, is that "last night, at 1 AM"? Not sure. Anyways, my cold was demanding my attention, as my nose was all clogged up. I decided to get up because I had trouble breathing when lying down, and I know I snore like crazy when I'm like this. I kept Wife awake all of the night before, and if I want to stay amongst the living, I better not do that two nights in a row. :)
So, I decided to get up. It sucks not getting my sleep, but I know I'll just konk out early tonight.
On the good side, I did my workout DVD. I'm still taking it easy on it, just doing level one. It's not enough to really break a sweat, but it's not over doing it to the point where I'm aching for days. I gotta ease into this gently again. It worked for me last time. I did try a level two, and I was sore for days, and didn't go back to do more. Then I think it's better to do less, and more often.
After that, I felt that I wasn't done, so I got on the bike. I decided that a little 15 minute ride would go nicely with the workout.
Well, the 15 minutes ended up being a full hour! How nice!
I really don't mind the bike, once I get going. I just have a really hard time convincing myself to do it. I get bored easily. I'm glad I found some good entertainment, it makes time pass, and I feel that I can do it this way. I am very aware that I don't slow down because I am focusing on something other than the biking. I keep a keen eye on this. :)
So, today is the long day at work. This means more standing up, more calories burned. It also means cake day. Which means "skip cake" day for me. No thanks.
I'm curious if Wife pulls through on that. It's a lot harder on her, as she is the one baking the cakes. We'll see. She kinda got in trouble on her RDI yesterday, as the lunch she had packed turned out to be a lot more calories than expected. She did her best though, and we've all been there, and will be there again. No biggie. We compensated as much as possible with a super low cal dinner. And even better - since we're having dinner leftovers for lunch today, it will be low calorie again! :)
Other than that, not too much new happening. It's almost 4 am, and Wife will wake up in a minute. It's time I go shower and make breakfast for us.
Today, I'm thankful for:
- Using my "sleepless" morning to exercise!
- Massive 1.9 kilo weight drop! I wish it was all fat! :)
- The outlook to a good day, where I will skip cake, but have some fruit!
- Morning coffee in less than 30 minutes!
Also, I wanted to point you guys to
this forum posting, I put up yesterday. I'd love to hear your stories! This is such a contageous topic, and I just love the whole attitude about it. :)
So go out there, and be FRICKIN' NICE to someone! Life is good! Make it so! :)