Tis the Season

Tis the Season ....for food.  Almost every day  something I shouldn't eat shows up at the office.  Sometimes it goes into the freezer, sometimes it goes next door, sometimes it goes home with one of us,  but mostly it is not going into me.  It's hard not to at least have a little of the homemade goodies, easier to avoid the store bought items even if they are something I like.  I know that I will eat a piece of 2 things when they show up......I'd like to say I wouldn't but they are so special that just having a taste and passing on the rest is major work. 

Tis the season ...... for friends and family.  Much lower cal options and I'm looking forward to the time spent with them.  Fruit and Veggie trays will be part of the snacks.......makes it easier to avoid the chips and dips.  Doing mini sandwiches instead of pizza makes it easier to leave off the bread.  Now I just need a low cal recipe for jelly donuts and cupcakes.

Tis the season.......for giving.  Don't forget that even a little helps(if you can afford it) and that if you have no money but have time volunteers are needed.

CDCC

It was a pretty normal week for the first time in a while.  I worked a normal schedule and ate mostly at home....and I had shopped.  The result was better on my things to do.

weight 244 which is down a pound.

fluids were good,  more than 8 glasses a day at least and the increased bathroom visits that go along with it.

exercise  walked 3 days, as much as my knee and ankle would allow

reading  I've actually been  reading about vitamins this week.  AOL had an article and I realized that I stopped my vits when i got sick as along with so many other things i couldn't tolerate them and I've never restarted them.  I realized that I really need to get my mega B started as it helps with carb usage and also my Ca and D.  I felt better last year and think that my Vits may have made the difference.

support  I read everyones blog and commented on everyone(i think) at some time during the week.  Checked most everyone 3 times.

My blog I went back and reread some of my blog so that I can work on getting back to what was working for me before.

having a good day...looking forward to a good week and I plan to post the poorly fitting out fit and will put back on the NSV outfit this week and grab a picture for next week.

NSV

Every year a museum in our town has a fund raiser for its educational programs....we try to go, as its fun as well as for a good cause.  It has gotten fancier over the years and as I have been able to wear stuff that I hadn't I decided to look in my closet for something....I got out 2 outfits and did my nails to match either.  Friday I did my make up(don't usually wear any) and then tried on the first....it was way big(going on the give away pile).  The second was an outfit I wore to a family event 4 or 5 years ago and it was  tight then.   The top fit fine and the pants were lose......wore it.  So i guess I should try on some of the other older clothes in my closet and see what needs to be given away, what can be worn now, and organize the too small things for future tries.  My younger son is into fashion and maybe i can get him to help...or is help from a kid wishful thinking.  Wish I had a picture,  I thought I looked pretty good but my spouse didn't say anything until Sat so I didn't ask him to take a pic on Fri.  Men!

CDCC

I redid the post...but its linking to this......

CDCC

We were gone over Thanksgiving week.  It was very nice but not at all on program.  In addition it was salty and I flew.  I weighed when we got back and I was up 10 pounds.....I haven't been as good as I should have been this week, but I have been better than when gone and I weighed this morning and I'm still up 5 pounds...but it is better than earlier in the week.  Part of the reason I wasn't good this week had to do with some Christmas activities that I wasn't mentally prepared for this week.  We also ate was in the house and it wasn't good enough.  Last night after the football game we went out shopping and I now have fresh fruit and veggies and cottage cheese and eggs, egg beaters and other things I use.  Eating the left-over bagels in the freezer was silly, but i did it.

Weight 245....up 5 pounds or down 5 pounds depending how you look at it.

Exercise....no

Reading .....no

Support...no

but I will be better this week.

CDCC

No weigh in today.  Will update this week.

I attempted to edit this post, however it got eaten by  blogger......that happened again with a long post I wrote this week...and then when I tried to redo it it wouldn't do anything right.  We were in calif for a long thanksgiving week with our kids.  My boys had a bunch of places they wanted to take me to eat and a bunch they were waiting for us to take them to.  We kept our meals to a brunch and a dinner and didn't snack....but even though I tried to limit breads and sweets the overall amount of food I ate was too much.  Also flying always bloats me....I weighed the morning of our flight and again the next morning in calif...and even though my eating was good that day, i gained 4 pounds.  I weighed daily and gained 4 more pounds by the weekend and the day after we got home.....showed a 10 pound gain!  At least part of that was water as it disappeared over this week......but it was a crazy week at work and with activities.  Then I thought we were going out with friends to a fairly healthy place and they changed it to a hot dog place.  between that, the gala, another dinner out and eating what was in the house I was not as good as I should have been.
Walked as much as I could and started picking up my fluids but not at goal.  I'm having to do some catch up reading for work and therefore won't have time for my books.....but its looking like exercise may be more important than weight......though I think that both are important.

Hope blogger likes this info better.

CDCC

Can't weigh today.  I'm at my son's for Thanksgiving.  It's going to be a busy week, we had planned some outside activities but  it's been raining all day...hope it doesn't all week.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving all