I’m Maryfran, a down to earth, open and honest writer who has had incredible success with weight loss (150 pounds) and also a regain. I’m currently on a weight loss journey and working to lose my weight. I write a little about everything....life is so interconnected and all encompassing! Belief is the key to success in life and how I came up with my name for my sites! Believe!
Yes! It should be a weigh in post! I am not even going to pretend that it isn’t time for my weigh in! The time to weigh in has come and gone and here I sit.....quiet.
Nope! I’m not weigh in in this week! Suffice it to say that I have however weighed myself each day! I just am choosing to NOT share. I am refusing to vocalize it! (Uhhhhh....I meant to say type it out!).
Yes, I kinda sorta really lost control. I have eaten delicious foods galore over the last week! It’s been pure insanity and I won’t lie....absolutely delicious!
I am trying to reign myself in NOW and not wait until the new year! There is no time like now to restart! That means that I am tracking my food today!
I am looking forward to the new year. I have a challenge that I’ll be sharing later this week that I am super excited about. It should help me immensely in my efforts too! I am excited to break into my new planner which is laid out and ready for weight loss/healthy living success. (I’ll be sharing that soon also!). I am ready to rock and roll the year 2021!
So yes, my refusal to talk about and even have an official weigh in is indicative of what the scales are saying.....let’s just say about 2-3 pounds were gained!!!!
It is that time again. It’s time to review my week and see what I did in terms of fitness, food and weight loss! Let me tell you, this was the last week of the holidays and I was just hoping that I could hold on. And boy did I hold on tight!
So let me be clear.... it was actually weekly weigh sharing time on Monday! BUT, Monday was my blogiversary…my 14th actually and I needed to do the obligatory post to commemorate it! So here it is…my week in review…just a wee bit late!
We started out the last week of December with a family get together. I love spending time with my family so I was tickled! The weather was nice so we did get outside to fly Jason’s drones. So that was a bit of time outside. And in keeping with my error over the whole holiday season, I got exactly NO pictures of the holiday event. OOPS.
On Sunday we were gung ho to get outside……except that it was raining. So we headed off to the mall and to an antique store. Hey…it was steps! At least I was moving! As always, we had a hoot and of course I tried on some hats at the antique store.
I went back to work on Monday and that is when I realized that I had a heck of a lot of steps to take if I was going to make my monthly step goal for December! I stepped up to the plate and I walked every chance I could. It was raining…but I walked out in the parking garage on my lunch break AND two 15 minute breaks! I was NOT going to go down without a fight.
And guess what? I was so proud to be able to say that I did it! I was also getting up at 4:45 AM and riding my exercise bike for those first two days. I was a machine!
Throughout this time my eating was ok…but I was still indulging a bit in the desserts. OOPS.
On Wednesday I was determined that the holidays were over and I was going to get a fresh start! That included eating……which I managed to do GREAT with. But it also included my fitness. So we started off the year right. We headed out to hike! We went to a tail that we both love. We have hiked this trail a gazillion times before. It was just as gorgeous and fun as I remembered. It was just as hard….let me tell you.
The Thurston Griggs Trail is a pretty steep incline. I think Jason referred to it as ‘the devil climb’ when we were going up! The arthritis in my knees were kicking, but I knew that when we got to the top of Thurston Griggs and entered the Appalachian trail that things would level off as we were on the ridge at that point and I wanted to get to Black Rock!
Once we got to Black Rock and looked around, I knew that I wanted to get to Annapolis Rock. Afterall, it’s a flat nice trail up on the ridge! So off we went!
The way back was fine too….until I got to the Thurston Griggs trail. My knee was SHOT by that point. The trail down was just as difficult. My poor woobly knee made me feel like I was drunk and staggering around. I was going SLOW. When I got to the very last stream crossing I was in my glory! I could actually see the car! I don’t know if my knee just gave it up or if I got careless……but I went down! It could have been bad. I was in a really jagged rocky area. This wasn’t just a matter of falling into a pool of water. This was a thing of me falling onto large rocks….jagged uneven rocks. SOMEHOW I managed to NOT hit my head. I was twisted around…and shaken up. But with just a scraped up knee and a brush burn on my finger I managed to escape unscathed. I was super sore the next few days…every things hurt. My hip…my arms…my wrist. But I know how lucky I was! But hey….I got over 20,000 steps that day AND I got to be out in nature and see some gorgeous sights! It was worth it!
So with that said…I got no more lunchtime walks or exercise bike rides the rest of the week as I recovered. This is a journey toward health…..my body needed to heal!
So how did I do on the scales?????
Why I maintained! I would have LOVED to have shown a loss for this week. But I am perfectly fine with a maintain. My goal was to maintain through the holidays….and it has only been two days since the holidays! So I managed to do exactly what I wanted to do for the month of December. BUT now it is January….it’s time to get this weight loss show on the road and lose some weight!!!!! I’ve got this!
