Here we are, Thursday morning! My week is winding down and I am ready for the weekend! But as I sat here reflecting this week and looking forward to the next one, realized a few things. One, I have a long weekend and two I had a word of the week failure! Oops!
Early this week I sat down to calculate the previous weeks mileage for my 2024 miles in 2024 Challenge. (post talking about this challenge can be found here). This is my typical routine. I close out the previous week and I turn the page to the new week. When I turn the page, I see the empty margin at the top and I put down my new word of the week. Many times I don't actually have a word of the week planned, I turn the page, see it and just know what the word should be. This week I turned the page and thought about the word of the week and what it should be. Nothing came to mind. I was stumped. So I vowed to come back to it. I just realized, I never went back to it! So I guess the default word of the week is 'wordless'!
Just because the word of the week was missing doesn't mean that I am not still tracking my progress. I am still tracking my food. I am still accumulating miles. However, the mileage has been a lot lower as I have been really lax on exercise. I ride the exercise bike to get in a fair amount of miles...but being honest, I knock out those miles fast and furious on breaks from work. I rely on my step count to make up the rest of the miles and I have been so sedentary that I fear that this week I won't make my mileage goals. If I make it, I am pretty sure that I won't be banking miles! That's not cool!
My eating of late has been spot on! A while back I talked about my frustration on the scales and that I needed to tighten up my calories and my carbs. (here and here) I have been doing very well with the carbs. I had one day where I splurged and had a sandwich for lunch and then had pasta for dinner. But for the most part I have kept it at one serving! I am not concerned about fruits and veggies and natural sugars/carbs. The calories. I have had some days where I have nailed the 1200-1300 calorie count that I am aiming for, but I am still most days sitting at closer to 1400-1500 calories. So that one is still a struggle.
One thing that I AM doing is trying to focus on upping my intake of fruits and veggies. I know that years ago when I was doing weight watchers I was eating a LOT of fruits and veggies (even before they were considered free). At one of the meetings theWW leader was encouraging people to eat more fruits and veggies and people were complaining and lamenting about how it was impossible. She asked the room if anyone was eating over 4-5 servings. I honestly raised my hand. I was the only one that raised my hand. She got a huge grin on her face and just stopped and waved at me like she was Vanna White and said "there is the proof'. Because you see, I had just shared at the beginning of the meeting my pounds lost for the week and we had talked about my total/overall loss, which at that point was amazing (as I was really close to reaching my goal at that point...so we were talking overall loss of over 100 pounds). Zoey loves her veggies also (ok, Zoey loves pretty much any food....well except for lettuce/spinach).
I have been going up to my mom's once a week to work on sorting and cleaning and trying to figure out what to do with her belongings. It's a crazy thing dismantling my parents life. Sad on one hand because my parents have things from their childhoods, from their parents....so we are talking 80-100 year old memories. But it's also cathartic as we share memories and laugh. We have tried to be quite judicious with what we are taking. For me I have a three point criteria and something has to fit in that criteria before I take it.
1. It has to have sentimental value to ME.
2. It has to be something I actually need.
3. It has to be something that is better than what I own....making it an upgrade.
So far that has worked. The sentimental items that I have gotten include my dad's toy cash register that my brother and I both played with. (we used to play restaurant and every restaurant needs a cash register right? This is all metal and was given to dad when he was about 4 or 5 making it 75-78 years old.
I also took mom's doll bed. I also played with this as a youngster. I was REALLY into dolls, so I used this a LOT! At this point, this doll crib would be at least 72-74 years old.
There are some other random, smaller things. A few pieces of glassware, some items from the restaurant (my grandmother owned a diner) and probably more to come! I am taking a fair amount of my parents wood furniture. It is solid walnut ....and in really good condition, and better than my current furniture!
So there is a lot of shuffling of furniture and belongings here at my house! But it's fun, and all stuff that brings so many memories.
The weather has been warm one day cold the next! I am so ready for spring! I see signs but it's still cold (at least today!)
Come on Spring!!!!
