Monday Update

I figured I'd check in & recap my weekend. I feel like it makes me more accountable if I tell people what I am/have been doing.
Friday was a good day all around. I even got in a tiny workout, swimming in my mom's pool. Even though I wasn't really swimming since I was holding AJ, that in itself is a workout as she gets bigger! I also "got" to carry around K, who is currently 36 lbs! Even in water, that is quite a "load". I ate pretty healthy for dinner considering we ate fast food (have you tried the chargrilled & fruit salad at Chik-Fil-A? SOOOO yummy!) and I barely met my water goal. Not sure how that happened, I usually drink WAY more water than I did on Friday.
Saturday was another basically good day. I went to IKEA with my bestie & if you've never gone you may not believe me when I say, THAT was my workout! IKEA is HUGE (kind of funny since most of the furniture they sell is designed to be compact & fit in small spaces) & it takes at least an hour to get from the front door all the way to the checkout. I even scored 2 totally cute aprons that were in the "as-is" section so they were discounted! Getting all my water to drink was SO EASY since I was out in the hottest part of the day. I felt like I couldn't get enough water to drink on Saturday!
Yesterday was Father's Day & believe me when I say it was SO HARD to eat healthy! I made Mark & the girls an oven baked peach french toast & cheesy/bacon scrambled eggs. I will admit to eating a few bites of the girls leftover french toast (but I made it with whole wheat french bread so that makes it healthy-ER right?!?) but then I made myself a spinach & protein smoothie that was pretty good too. I forgot to mention I made a really good, very healthy & balanced dinner on Saturday night (peachy chicken & brown rice~I even kept track of what I put in it & how much if you want the recipe~only 353 calories a serving!) so I had a serving of that for lunch yesterday. For dinner we went to my in-laws house to celebrate Father's Day with my father-in-law, Mark & our brother-in-law, who was celebrating his FIRST father's day! My wonderful father-in-law grilled "make your own" kabobs (chicken AND steak with LOTS of yummy veggies my great mother-in-law chopped up) and I brought a cucumber fruit salad that was really good. The "boys" (all grown men but still) & my little girls all got in the pool and so did my adorable little 10 month old niece. I put my feet in but that was all I was willing to do. Surprisingly my lack of desire to get in the pool had nothing to do with my body image. I was just feeling lazy & didn't want to go to the trouble of getting in my swimming suit! We finished the night with some (WAY TOO) good fruit pizza my mother-in-law made and I can honestly say it was good enough that I *almost* don't regret going over my calorie goal!
Today has started out pretty well. I ate some of the cucumber fruit salad and then got down to working out. I did a full upper body workout (almost pooped out a couple times but I am proud to say I didn't!) and got in some core exercises too! 25 minutes on the elliptical & now I'm ready for lunch! I've also already reached my water intake goal, something about working out in AZ makes it SUPER easy to want to drink enough water~and FAST!
Anyway, I'm feeling pretty good physically & mentally I'm super proud of myself. I'll be even more proud when I can check in this weekend & say I've worked out & eaten well all week!

a long awaited (and mostly pointless) update

I've been off the wagon for a while now. I had spurts of good intentions followed by long periods of indifference coupled with active sabotage. But I feel ready to really commit & make the changes I've been avoiding.
I saw my doctor this morning to follow up on my Phentermine prescription from a few months ago. I was down less than 20 pounds in just over 3 months. Not so stellar considering I know what I could've been down had I been diligent but I'm determined not to beat myself up over that.
While I waited to be seen I set about making a workout routine. The thing is, I know what to do to achieve my goals, I really do. Its the actually DOING what I need to do that I seem to get stuck on. Now I have a workable routine, nothing too crazy & it is all stuff I can do, here at home, even if my girls are around & underfoot (as they are wont to be). Mostly just light weight lifting/strength training but I don't want to attempt too much & get discouraged  (followed quickly be giving up if my past is any indication).
I also have a plan to begin a couch to 5K program in 2 weeks. The start date for that was originally 2 weeks ago but when I went to download a program for my iPod I discovered that my iPod wouldn't support the 3rd party application necessary & that was a good enough excuse not to start. I did discover that an iPhone will support the application so, next Wednesday, I'm going to join the rest of you in smartphone world & upgrade my poor little slider for an iPhone. Once I have that up & running (haha, I'm so punny!) I'll be fresh out of excuses & I'll begin. I'll be sure to update as soon as I actually achieve my first day of the program.
So that's where I'm at right now. I'm allowing myself until Monday before starting the new workout routine but I'm determined that I'll eat healthy over the weekend. So far so good, I've even joined myfitnesspal.com (apparently its better/easier to use than livestrong.com~which is what I had been using) and have tracked both my breakfast (spinach berry protein smoothie) and lunch (grilled turkey burger with provolone cheese). I only have 2 more cups of water to drink before I reach my water intake goal (easy peasy in hot AZ weather!) and I'm already thinking about a healthy dinner for tonight.
Have a healthy, active Father's Day weekend!