Pumpkin and Sweater Weather!

Sep 24, 2015

Fall is coming!! I am so excited for the fall season!! I've already bought two big bottles of Torani Sugar Free Pumpkin syrup and have been making myself sugar free pumpkin spice coffee! I can't wait for the chill in the air and to be able to wear sweaters and jackets again. (It's still quite warm and in the mid 80s down here in FL.) This summer was packed and flew by but it was really fun.  We had so much going on and so much traveling.  I told all my friends that they are banned from getting married or having babies next year because 2015 was the year of the weddings and baby showers.  However, they don't seem to be complying with this because I've already been asked to help host a baby shower in January! It's starting all over again!

The good thing is, however, that I feel good about myself and my body.  It's so much easier to travel and see friends and family when I don't hate myself and how I look... not to mention that I can actually fit into nice clothes and dress up! I am not at my goal weight but I am on the right track. It seems like I keep taking two steps forward and two steps back... which means I'm not really gaining much weight but I'm not losing it either. According to MyFitnessPal, I'm almost the exact weight I was this time last year.  I was on a gaining pattern for a lot of the beginning of 2015.  However, I'm trying hard to get that under control and it seems the times that I "fall off the wagon" and eat one bad thing after another is much less frequent.  I am learning that one bad day or bad weekend doesn't have to equate to a month or two of unhealthy eating and no exercise. I'll struggle with that my whole life and I'll never have a normal relationship with food but I feel like I'm getting a real handle on it all.

I'm not sure what I want my goal weight to be but I would at least like to lose another 20 pounds and see how that feels. I'd like to be able to maintain at that lower weight and exercise hard. But for right now, I am just focusing on running again and eating healthy, not my weight.  I chickened out of the 10k that I had planned last weekend and just did the 5k.  My lower back was giving me some problems in June and so I slacked on running for June and July.  I just started back in the middle of August but my body is NOT athletic so I had to restart almost from square one.  To really be able to run continuously takes me a long time and I have to be consistent and running at least 3 times a week.  My body is SOOO not designed to run so when I stop, it wants to completely forget the trauma it endured by me making it run.  I did enjoy the race last weekend and it inspired me to keep going despite my starts and stops.  I have a 10k I think my friend and I are going to do together in the beginning of January and then I really would like to do the Jacksonville Gate River Run in March 2016.  That's a 15k (9.3 miles) and it's running across some huge bridges and has some crazy hills.  To be able to do that, I will really have to focus starting now to get to the point where I can run a 5k easy and then work on the 10k goal.  If I can do a 10k (6.2 miles) running almost the entire time by January, I think I can do the 15k two months later. 

Other than my exercise and weight goals, I was promoted to a Senior position at work and I'm also interviewing for a new team lead position.  I like my current job but the management is starting to get really out of control with all the scheduling and time management.  They are micromanaging everything and I feel ready to move on to a less structured position where I can have the freedom to work with clients as needed rather than having to ask permission every time I need to setup a meeting or connect with a client. So I am pursuing other jobs within the company and hope to maybe find something else that I will like. 

The kids started back to school and now both are in high school.  The oldest is a senior and it is extremely expensive to be a parent of teenagers right now.  We are trying to find him a job but it's not going so well.  He has an overconfidence problem, you might say, so he thought he would be walking into a store and they would be stammering all over themselves to hire him.  He is getting very upset that no one has begged him to come to work for them yet.  He doesn't understand what it takes to get a job, especially at 17 with no experience. He just wants to fill out an application online and then expects them to pick his out of the hundreds they get and call him in to start next week... doesn't happen! So I'm trying to help him and share my experience with him in the HR field and keep him from getting too discouraged.  It's been an adventure.  Their dad has been traveling so much for work lately so I've been doing a lot of this myself.  He finally got his learner's permit so I've been letting him drive me around and then last weekend I took him to get his senior pictures done.  Before I know it, he's gonna be graduating.  It's insane! 

Thanks for reading my blog! I hope everyone is having a great year and ready for the cooler weather! XOXO

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