I lost my dad 6 years ago today.

I often wonder if I made the right decision in May of 2007?  Did I hear what the doctors said or did I   hear what I just wanted to hear.  Had they said that my dad would recover from his stroke?  Had they said that the trach would only be temporary?  Had they said that if we didn't do it he would die?  That part I think they did say.  I wasn't ready to lose my dad.  Did I do what he really wanted?  Did he finish out his life as he would have wanted?  Was he happy at the end?  The answers to those questions is a definite NO!  We kept a daily diary by his visitor of how he was feeling and what he was acting like during their visit for those 4 months.  I recently got this diary out and read some of the pages.  My dad had always been a very lively, fun loving person.  He never acted or looked his age.  The last 4 months of his life he was depressed and sad and in pain both inside and out.  Now that I sit here I would have to answer my first question with the answer no.  I wasn't ready to let him go, so I said yes to the trach and the feeding tube, so I could have more time with him.  I was being selfish and I should have honored his wishes.  I hoped I could force him to fight and get better.  The photo above is his very last fishing trip that took place a week before his death.  I was determined that he would fish one more time.  Did he really have fun?  I like to think so.  He loved fishing and actually wanted his ashes taken to Canada to be dumped in his favorite fishing lake.  That wish was honored.  It was the least I could do for him.  I hope that if I am ever faced with this decision again that I can be strong and choose quality over quantity and let them go in the beginning. 

Goodbye January

This is the last day of January 2013.  My start of the new year hasn't been too bad.  I am down 1 pound from my first January weigh-in, but I've had a couple bad weeks of eating.  This week I started tracking my WW points with dinner, so I know how many I have left for the rest of the day.  This has really helped me stay within my allotted points. My unofficial weight this morning was 129.5.  Now if I can only keep this weight over the weekend so my WW weigh-in on Monday will be bring a loss.

I managed to get in exercise everyday this month and managed to get in 2 some days.  Here's a look at my exercise calendar.

I have my February calendar on my refrigerator just waiting for tomorrow's sticker.  This has really helped me stay on track with the activity.  I look forward to putting a sticker on the calendar everyday.  The routine we will be covering in our WW meetings in February is activity so I look forward to attending the meeting and discuss this subject.  I'm taking my past calendars to share.

This past Monday I was down .2.  Not real happy with that, but at least it was a loss.  Of course, I was up .8 the week before so I'm still behind.  I have to step it up if I want to see 125 by my birthday in April. 

Weekend

Here we are at the weekend again.  Time is just flying by.  It was so nice out last weekend.  We were wearing light weight coats and I actually walked around the backyard to see what was going on with the flower gardens.  This weekend it is COLD and gloomy out.  No snow, so I guess that's a good thing.  Winter depresses me somewhat.  I have never liked the cold weather.  The hotter the better for me.  I just can't seem to get warm in the winter.  In the past I've had my thermostat turned down, but this year I said I wasn't going to be uncomfortable and I've turned it up a little.  I'm still cold a lot of the time.

This week eating has gone is pretty well.  I've tracked everyday.  I've gone over in points some days, but not a lot and I still have weeklies left.  I've been getting 2 workouts in everyday.  I don't know if I will see a loss on Monday, but I feel good about how the weeks gone.

I'm still following Flylady.  This week we worked in the bathroom.  It is all sparkly clean.  Actually the whole house isn't terrible.  My bedroom and the dining room are the worst.  It won't take much work to get the bedroom whipped into shape and next week is master bedroom week, so I will get it done then.  The dining room is a different matter.  It's not terrible, but it is the dumping place.  My table always has something on it and my desk is usually ready to walk away.  This is where my "office" is.  This is where I spend most of my time.  My goal is to get rid of a lot more stuff that I don't really need to help make it more manageable.  Right now my table has all the things on it that I want to file in the file cabinet that I just brought up from the basement.  I have gardening and home decorating pages I've torn out of magazines that I want to keep and lot of exercise tips and a lot recipes that I have to go through and decide if I still think they look good enough to make. 

Now I have to get ready to go to Zumba.  This is how I start each and everyday. I either go to Jazzercise or to Zumba.  What a great way to start a day!!

Weigh-in Monday

This morning was my Weight Watchers weigh-in.  Remember I gained 2.4 last week.  This week I am down 1.6.  Still not back to 130, but pretty darn close.  My hopes is to be in the 120s next week.  My new goal is to be at 125 by my birthday in April.  This is totally doable if I lose .4 pounds every week from now till April 4th.  There is no major holiday to get in the way.  I am going to continue working out and plan to step it up and actually do the 2 workouts a day instead of just saying I'm going to.  Today I changed my WW goal weight from 145 to 135.  I didn't want to go too low and be discouraged if I got up a little and had to pay.  135 is a good goal and we will see how good I am at staying even lower.

This weeks WW meeting was about making your refrigerator more WW friendly.  They had so good ideas I plan to do.  I really don't prepare my fruits and veggies so they are easy to grab and enjoy.  I'm going to make up a weeks worth of salads and they will be ready all but the dressing so I can have one at lunch everyday.

Here's a picture of my refrigerator. It doesn't look too bad, but there is room for improvement to make it more WW friendly.

This is the outside of my refrigerator.  I have my January exercise calendar up so I can add stickers after each workout.  So far everyday has at least 1 sticker.  I just made a weigh in chart showing what I should weigh each week if I want to make you 125 by April goal.  I also have a couple encouraging poems.  


Did anyone watch the golden Globes last night.  I didn't watch them, but I was flipping channels when they were giving Jodie Foster her award.  She is such a pretty woman.  She is always so natural.  She never seems fake and overly made up. 

My grandson called today and asked if I wanted to go to lunch.  Who can refuse a date with their, so of course, I said yes.  We ended up going to Pizza Hut for their buffet.  I had a large salad, 1 bread stick and sauce, 1 small scoop of pasta with alfredo sauce and 1 thin slice of pepperoni pizza.  My grandson had 2 cinnamon dessert sticks left, so I ate them.  I had water to drink.  Monday is my treat day, since it's weigh in day, so I don't feel too bad about my choices.

How is everyone else doing to start off the new week?

It's the weekend

 How do you like the new ticker?  This is based on me getting to 125.  We will see if I can make it.

Yes, another weekend.  My hubby is out of town so I have the whole house to myself.  I'm not sure I really like being alone.  There's no one here to see me go to the pantry to see what's inside.  This was me last night.  I wasn't hungry, but I just couldn't stay out of the pantry.  I ate the remaining bugles, some goldfish crackers, a slice of pumpkin bread and had some hot cocoa.  Granted this was over a long period of time after lunch.  I  had veggies and dip for dinner. The only good thing about this is I only went over my daily points bu 4 points and I had only used 1 earlier in the week.

I got my hair cut and my highlights touched upon Thursday.  I like it.  It was getting too long and my roots were getting out of control.  I'm sure my grey hair was showing up nicely.

This week has been a good week for tracking everyday and getting at least 1 workout in everyday.  I have incorporated power foods into all meals except for snacks.  I know I would be better off if I used power food for snacks instead of the junk I've been eating.  Once the junk is out of the cupboards I am not buying more.  I'm going to try and lead a cleaner lifestyle.  This is not going to be easy with my husband being here, but I am going to try.  I refuse to throw good food away, so I am going to finish what we have in the house but I plan to replace it with better options when I buy new.

Letter To Myself To Be Read In 2014.

 I just started following The Sisterhood of the shrinking jeans blog and there was a homework assignment posted last week to write a letter to myself reflecting what 2013 accomplishments I made as if I was writing it in 2014.  I am to link this blog post  here.   Here's my letter I wrote myself.

Dear Me,

  As I sit here I think back to a year ago and see all that I've accomplished.

Health:
* I continued going to Weight Watchers meeting every week no matter what.
* I continued to maintain my goal weight and actual lost more weight.  I look and feel great at 125.  Amazing what 5 more pounds can do.
* I started following a cleaner eating lifestyle.  I'm still not perfect, but I feel healthier.
* I continued to workout everyday and got to put a sticker on the calender everyday.
* I continued tracking my food in my journal and online.

Retirement:
* Since Ron's retirement I've enjoyed his company more.  He's much more fun to be around without the work stress.
* It was nice to be spontaneous with travel plans.
* It was a struggle in the beginning to get him on my eating schedule, but it finally happened.

Personal Life:
* I got to do a lot of gardening and made the yard look even better.
* The house is always so nice to walk into since I started following Fly Lady.
* I've kept up blogging even though it was hard to always find something to write about and no one but me was probably reading it anyway.

This has been a great year.   I'm sure next year will be even better.

Love, Me

Glad To Finally Be Back To Weight Watchers Meetings!!!

OK, the scale wasn't great to me, but I'm so glad to finally be able to get back to the meetings.  I gained 2.4 pounds over the Holiday.  This could have been so much worse and was.  I got myself back on track last week, sorta.  I am going to work hard to get the rest of the gain off this week.  At my meeting the topic was getting power food in with every meal and snack.  This was a topic a while back and I did it and I lost 3.4 pounds.  I'm hoping that this will happen again.  I am pre-planning my meals, so I can be sure I am within my points this week too.  Last week I ended up maxing out my daily and weeklies.  I don't use my activity points.

One draw back to using a crock pot when you are home is the great smell that comes from it and you have 2 more hours before dinner time.  That is what is happening here today.  My daughter sells Tastefully Simple and she had a freezer workshop a few weeks ago and I am having one of those meals tonight.  I'm having Brown Sugar Chicken with noodles and peas.  The chicken smells delicious.  I hope I remember to take a picture of it on my plate today.  I would really like to start a picture diary of what I eat.  I like reading bloggers pages that do that.

So, who watched Biggest Loser last night?  Jillian is back for sure.  I really wish they would have considered the girl that walked out as the eliminated player since it was only the first week.  The guy that left really wanted to be there.  I decided to do some type of exercise during the commercial breaks.  I used to eat during the show, but think it's a much better idea to do an activity instead.

This week FlyLady is working on the kitchen.  All the kitchen drawers need to be cleaned out and a lot of stuff that I don't use need to be pitched.  This is what I'm working on this week and washing down the cupboard doors.  Everything else in the kitchen look pretty good.

Yesterday Seemed To Last Forever.

I don't know why, but the day just kept going and going.  My Hubby stayed home from work because our grandson's car was overheating had we needed to find out why, plus hubby was suppose to get his new car.  Even he said the day drug by.  I was so tired at the end of the day that I actually went to bed at 9:00 and went right to sleep. 

I didn't go to Zumba last night.  I just didn't feel up to it.  I did go to Jazzercise in the morning and I did get 100% on my Active Link, but only 1 sticker on my calendar for yesterday.

Looking back at this past weeks tracker I find that's I've gone over my daily points every single day.  At this weeks end I've used all my weeklies plus 1.  I can't wait to get to my Monday weigh-in and get back on schedule.  This has been the worst two weeks.  I hate not having the accountability of going to weigh in and attending my weekly meeting.

Today I'm going to run the sweeper and get back to my Fly Lady schedule.  Everything has been slacking this week.  I have to get back to it before everything gets too out of hand.  I'm off to get my shower and then get to it.

Today I went to Jazzercise again.  I love that class.  There's a different instructor everyday so there's no getting bored with routines.  I walked on the treadmill last night for my second workout.  I did a programed walk.  In the past I wasn't able to walk the 4 mph section.  I always had to turn down the speed.  Last night I had no problem walking the 4 mph at all.  What a difference 56 pounds can make.  Since kick boxing has been canceled for tonight I will have to find something else to do for my second workout.  Depends on how Hubby is feeling and if he's stuck on the couch watching TV again on what I end up doing.

I took down all the Christmas decorations today and put back the normal stuff.  It's nice to have the house feel like it's getting back in order.  Tomorrow I'm going to tackle the many recipe magazines that are piled up and get them at least organized into titles.  I really want go through them and take out anything I think we will actually eat.  It seems silly to have a whole magazine sitting around and having only a few recipes I will actually make.  My long term goal is to file the recipes by what type of food it is.  Of course, I've been thinking about this goal for over a year now.  Time to take action.

Happy 2013!

Today is New Years Day.  I am ready too get back to eating healthy.  The holidays seemed to go on forever.  The junk if finally almost all gone and the refrigerator is stocked with veggies.

I want to list my 2013 Goals:

Health:
I will exercise at least once a day, but hope to work 2 in.
I will try and get a power food into each meal.
I will track my meals:
I will achieve 100% on my Active Link everyday.

Personal/Fun:
I will plan mini trips with my husband when he retires in early summer.

Debt:
I will continue to pay down my zero percent credit card so it is paid off before the interest kicks in.
I will pay off My discover card.
I will try to not use credit cards except the ones I know I will pay off in full each month.

House:
I will continue following Fly lady and keep the house neat.
I will work in the gardens and plan more perennials.

I went to Jazzercise this morning so my calendar has one sticker on it so far.  By the end of the month my hope is to have a sticker on every day.  I had hoped to get all the Christmas things put away yesterday and then again today, but didn't get around to it.  That is my goal for tomorrow.  Fly lady is working on Zone 2 this week which is the living room, entryway and front porch.  The living room is in pretty good shape once I get the Christmas stuff put away.  The entryway needs some help, but it's cold in there.  Since we have a lot of snow and we only have a small porch in front of the door, I'm only going to see that the snow is swept from that area.

I want to get an extra workout in this evening.  Since my husband is watching TV I think I might go for a little walk on the treadmill.  I haven't used it in a very long time so I am going to take it easy.  No jogging, just a nice slow walk to help to get my Active Link to 100%.

The New Year Is Almost Here

This past year has been a wonderful adventure in the weight loss world.  I started out the year by regaining my lifetime status with Weight Watchers.  This took the previous year to accomplish.  I was thrilled to see 145 on the scale again.  I was hoping I would be able to maintain this weight throughout 2012.  To my surprise I did maintain this weight, in fact I continued to lose weight.  At my last Weigh In I was 130.  This is total of 56.6 pounds lost since December 2010.  I am hoping to be 129.8 by my 1 year anniversary of being at lifetime, which is January 2nd or being back to goal on February 6th.  I have gained some weight back over Christmas.  I am throwing away all the cookies that are left today, so I won't be able to sneak a few every time I walk past them.  I am cleaning out the refrigerator today too.  Enough is enough.  I have to get back to healthy eating.  I have continued working out over the last 2 weeks or I would be more than 4 pound up. 

We always have family over for New Year's Eve and in the past I've always had healthier options for me to eat.  I plan to continue this tradition this year.  The dips will be made with reduced fat sour cream, cream cheese and mayo.  Baked chips and salsa instead of chips and dip work for me.  I found a recipe for baked broccoli poppers that sound yummy.  Lots of fresh veggies to pick on.  One drink at midnight and that's it.  I have around 5 pounds to lose to make my 129.8 goal.  I probably won't make it in January for my lifetime anniversary, but it shouldn't be a problem to make it by my back to goal weight anniversary in February.

Maintaining

I think I have this maintaining thing figured out.  I'm staying about the same weight each week.  I wouldn't mind losing a little more, but I'm not going to stress over it.  I'm feeling good where I am.  I'm hoping to continue maintaining through the holidays and then maybe I'll push for more weight loss in January.

We are having a lot of rain the last couple days and expect it to last the rest of the week.  I would much rather have sunshine, but at least I'm not on the coast and experiencing all the flooding.  I'm going to pop my vitamins to help boost my mood.  This weather and the winter to come always makes me very moody. 

I'm still exercising a lot and will continue to do it.  I actually enjoy it.  I don't think I would like going to the gym and use the weight machines, but the aerobic stuff I like.

Now that the weather isn't good for grilling my menu will switch the cooler foods.  I see a lot more casseroles in the future.  Today will be a whole chicken and that will be in leftovers for a couple days.  We decided meatloaf sounded good so I will be making that later in the week.  I will have to work a lot of veggies into the menu too.  I think I'll get out my divided plates and start using them again and load up the large section with the veggies and put the meat in the little section.

I'm off to get my shower and do some cleaning for some extra activity points today.

Up a little today at weigh-in.

I went to my WW meeting this morning.  I was up .2 pounds.  The same thing happened last week.  I'm not sad about this, because I'm still within my goal weight, but these .2s will add up to pounds and I don't want that to happen.  I didn't go to Jazzercise yesterday and I usually do and we had  Roast chicken and all the trimming for dinner last night.  I usually go out for Sunday dinner and I usually get a salad or something else that is light.  So, I will take the .2 gain this week.  All considering I am happy with that.  I really thought I was going to have a couple pound gain.

I finished going through all the things that I took out of my closet, yesterday.  I tried on all of last winter's clothes.  I now have 2 over flowing totes to give away plus more sitting here on a dining room chair and I have 1 tote of things I can wear.  When my hubby saw all the "TOO BIG" clothes piled on the bed he asked me what I was going to do with all of them?  I told him I was giving them away, because I was NEVER wearing them again.  He then gave me a high five!  I think I'm OK with the amount of tops I have left.  I am going to need more pants though.  I am going to be watching for Kohl's to put their cords on sale and then I will go try them on and see what size I need to buy.  It's been too long for me to even remember when I had heavy pants that weren't elastic waist.  I will be buying pants with a zipper and button closure.  My size 10 jeans are getting too baggy in the legs and butt and the waist has some room in it.  Could I be ready for a size 8?  I never thought I would be saying that in a million years.

Boy, is it ever cold in here today.  We had frost overnight.  I don't want to fire up the furnace.  I put on my little electric faux stove to help take the chill off.  It doesn't seem to be doing such a great job.  My hands and feet are still cold.  I will be turning on the oven later to make chicken and stuffing for dinner so at least the kitchen will heat up some.  I am so not ready for the cold weather.  I am not a winter lover by any means.  The hotter the better for me!!

Out of the Closet.

It's so cold here that I had to get out my winter clothes.  The last I wore them was probably in April.  I had several storage boxes full of things I wore last winter.  When I took them out of the closet they looked so big.  I tried a lot of the stuff on and I was swimming in them.  The pants are size 12/14 and I am now wearing an 8.  The tops were mixed between XXL and XL.  I am now wearing a M in tops. I now have a BIG pile of clothes that I will be putting on freecycle, plus I have a lot more to try on.  I have mixed feeling about this.  There's a lot of cute things that I really liked to wear that are now too big and looks funny on me.  I also have a lot of shopping to do if I plan on having anything to wear this winter.

I have an outdoor wedding to go to on Saturday.  I was planning on wearing the outfit I wore to my nephews outdoors wedding I went to on a cold June evening.  I guess I'd better try it on and may sure I still look OK in it. 

Today was another weigh-in.

I didn't know what to expect at weigh-in this morning.  It's getting colder her in NE Ohio, so I ended up wearing my long pants, instead of my think capris.  My thought was that this would probably make me show a gain.  Changing the clothes you wear for the season is a scary thing when you are weighing in.  When I stepped on the scale at my meeting I was down another .2 this week.  That make a total of 52.8 pounds lost so far.  My leader asked if I wanted to change my goal.  She said I didn't have to, but we knew that 145 was no longer a realistic goal for me.  I told her I wasn't sure what I wanted it to be and that I would have to think hard this week about that.  I am at 133.8 now.  Am I being unfair to myself to make it 140 and still have such a big gap from my goal and actual weight?  I don't know.  I don't want to make it too low and then have to worry about it every week.  I know that I only have to really worry about it on the first weigh-in of the month since that is the only on that really counts for my lifetime status.  The holidays are just around the corner and even though I don't plan on going crazy with the eating it would be nice to not have to watch what I eat so closely.  I guess I'm going to see what happens this week and see what the scale says next week.  Maybe I'll be really brave and say my new goal will be 135.

This week's Weight Watchers meeting was about setting goals.  There is 8 weeks until Thanksgiving and if you lose just 1/2 pound each week you would be 16 pounds smaller when you sit down at the Thanksgiving dinner table.  1/2 pound is very doable.  I'm going to try and do this challenge and see how much smaller I can get in 8 weeks.  I don't think I will be able to lose a 1/2 pound each week, but as long as I'm losing something each week I will be happy.  Even .2 would put me down another 1.6 pounds and I would weight at 132.2  That would be 2.4 from my new all time goal of 129.8  Do you think I could actually get into the 120s by the new year?  That would be my anniversary of getting to goal again. OMG, I just might make it.  I sure am going to try.

Next week will be measurement time again.  I can really see a difference now when I look in the mirror.  I'm still working on my waistline (muffin top) but it is a lot smaller than it was.

I'm Back!!

It's been a very long time since I've been here to post.  To refresh everyone's memory.  I made goal in January 2011.  It took me a year to make it to goal.  I set mini goals to help me get there.  I lost a little and gained a little, but I never gave up.  I went to my Weight Watchers meeting every week no matter what I thought the scale would say.  After I made goal I wanted to continue losing if possible.  I am happy to say that as of Monday's weigh in I am not down 52.6 pounds. That is 11 pounds under my goal weight.  I guess it's time to set a new WW goal, but what should I make it?  I wouldn't mind losing more weight.  I have set a mini goal to get into the 120's  I don't care if it's only 129.8.  This would be awesome.  I really don't care how long it takes to get there.

Now on to my measurements.  These are total inches lost since I rejoined WW in Dec. 2010.
Arms: down 2"
Hips: down 8"
Bust: down 7"
Waist: down 10.5"
Thighs: down 5"
When I started out in December 2010 I was unable to even wear my size 14 jeans.  I am now into a size 10 and they are NOT tight.  I am actually wearing size 6/8 capris from Walmart and they are loose.  I am going to go clothes shopping for winter things and will see what sizes I fit into.

I still see that FAT girl sometimes when I look in the mirror.  It's very hard to get the mindset that I've lost 52 pounds.  I see the difference when I see photos of myself.  This is going to be the hardest part of my journey.  I just want to see what everyone else sees when I look at myself.

Friday

Boy, where did the week go?  I can't believe it's already Friday and can it actually be the middle of March?  Another nice day here in Wadsworth Ohio.  the clouds come and go, but it's 63 degrees so that's nice.

I ended up going for another walk after dinner yesterday.  It was just to nice to stay inside.  This morning I went to Jazzercise.  Then I had a dentist appointment for a cleaning.  Now I'm going to go grocery shopping for my hubby for his trip this weekend.  I might go to Target and check out their clearance sections.  I usually go around looking for bargains for Friday, since I don't have to dog sit my grand dog.

Since I ended up eating breakfast last because of the dentist appointment I think I'll just grab a cheese stick and head out shopping.  Enjoy the day where you are.  Till later....

Don't look at me naked.

I feel pretty good when I look in the mirror with my clothes on.  My clothes are fitting so much better.  I really think I'm looking skinnier.  My friends are seeing the weight loss and commenting on it.

When I look at myself naked in the mirror it is a different story.  I've been looking in the mirror straight on and from the side.  I think I'm looking a little better.  I still need work, but my rolls aren't nearly as big as they were.  My stomach is the biggest problem.  I do have a bit on an apron developing, but only on one side of my stomach.  My hope is as I gain more muscle it will disappear.  Having a  C section 38 years ago has weakened my stomach muscles (I think).  At almost 60 years old I can't see getting a tummy tuck.  Today I decided to use a mirror and look at my back, which I have not done before.  I was disappointed and discussed in what I saw.  My back has big rolls and dents.  Yes there are more than one.  This is something I don't see when I look in the mirror on a daily basis.  I can't see them ever going away.  As I lose the weight I can see them leaving a lot of loose skin which I don't want.  I've also noticed that my skin is sagging on my under arm area and on my upper inner thigh.  I've seen this in other people that have lost weight.  Will this firm back up as I workout more?  I don't want to lose all this weight and then have to wear a lot of clothes to hide my flaws I've gotten from losing it.  Sorry for the downer post today.  I just didn't like what I saw in the mirror today.

On to nicer things.  The weather is beautiful again today.  We did get thunderstorms early this morning, but it's really nice out now.  I went for a walk with my daughters dog before lunch.  He's a bigger dog and I was really having to walk fast to keep up with him.  My dash hound was dragging yesterday, so I left him home.  It felt so good to be outside getting fresh air.  Of course, with the rain, the ground is still to wet to do anything in the flower gardens.  Maybe I can get to that this weekend.  My husband is going out of town with the 2 older grandsons, so I will be on my own.  My daughter and I will go out to eat, but I can get my activity in without having to worry about stopping and taking care of something hubby or the boys want or need.  I'm considering going to Jazzercise on Sunday morning.  With the hubby gone I won't have to have him move that car so I can get out of the driveway.  This will give me an extra day of high aerobic exercise, before Monday's weigh-in.

I guess it's time to start dinner.  Brussel sprouts and turkey smoked sausage will be the main dish.  I'll probably put a couple potatoes in too and make it a 1 pot meal.  Gotta got only having 1 pan to hav eto wash.

Another Beautiful Day

The sun is shining and it feels so good.  I actually opened the windows in my bedroom to give it a nice airing.  We are suppose to have a high of 72 today.  I just wish it would last.  Since it's only the middle of March I'm guessing we still have some cold weather ahead of us.

I went to Jazzercise this morning, but I really think I'll go for a walk after dinner too.  It's just too nice to stay in the house.  The ground is still a little too wet to do much in the flower gardens.  I just can't wait to get out in the dirt.  All the flowers are starting to peek out and some never went away since we had such a mild winter.  I've had pansies and violas blooming all winter.  I had planted blueberry bushes last year and they have been eaten down to the ground.  We didn't have enough snow that the critters couldn't find food to eat so I see no excuse for that.

I think we are going to have burgers on the grill tonight.  I have some asparagus that I can grill too and I'll throw some sweet potato fries in the oven.  YUM! The only thing that would make this any better is to have some good old home grown tomatoes for the burgers.  I guess I'll just have pickles & mustard on mine tonight.

That's it for now.  I hope everyone has as nice as weather as we are and can get out and enjoy it!!

It Feels Like Spring

It was raining yesterday, but the sun is coming out today and it's going to be in the mid 60s.  I see a walk in my future today.  I went for a walk on Sunday after dinner with my daughter and our dogs.  My hubby says that's what helped me lose .6 this week.  Maybe it is.  I weighed in at 144.6 yesterday.  I'm .2 from being back to my lowest weight in my WW journey.  I hope next week I will beat that weight.  Only 4.5 more pounds to lose by my birthday.  I have 3 weeks worth of weigh-ins to get there.  My goal this week is to do some type of exercise everyday.  So far I've walked on Sunday, Jazzercised yesterday and I plan to walk again today.  The weather is going to warm all week, so I hope to get out in the yard to do some flower garden clean up.  This will be GREAT exercise for me.

I bought myself an ipod touch from Target on Sunday.  Now all I have to do is put my music on it.  I've downloaded an app that measures my walking distance and speed and the WW app.  I also joined a gym app that will pay me if I go to the gym. It's called GymPact .  Check it out.

I'm going to put the wash in the dryer and maybe head out for a walk before my shower.  See everyone later.