Hmmm ....

Guess I missed posting yesterday. Not that I remember posting, because I don't. On Sundays, it's easy to remember to post because of it being my weigh-in day. So I post early. The other days of the week, I generally try to wait until the end of the day to post.

So yesterday was a good day. We were supposed to get two inches of snow but none came and our temps are still on the mild side. Tim and I went to Wal-mart and I walked. We were also going to another big department store and Tim was worried I wouldn't be able to walk in both. Ah the man has no faith! We stepped into Wal-mart and I walked right on past the electric carts. We knew what we were there for and where it was. I strolled over and then back to the front of the store. I let Tim stand in the check out line and went to sit in the entryway on a bench to catch my breath. It felt so good to not get on one of those carts!

The second stop doesn't even have the electric carts available so that wasn't an option. I did sit down in the furniture area for a little while as Tim wandered the electronics.

I also worked out with Richard, did two sets of 30 bicep curls, 30 modified push-ups, and 30 lying ham curls. I feel I did a fair job with moving yesterday.

And that brings me to today ... Up very early (4:30 AM) with a back ache. Got up and 'watched' CMT and dozed for a couple hours. Then I went back to bed for an hour so was actually up a little later than normal. I was not going to do my Richard workout this morning. I really wasn't in the mood and had told myself it's Saturday, the last day of the week, and I deserve the break. Then I thought about what I did last night.

I've been craving ice cream for weeks now. Last night on the way home, I caved into the craving and had a hand-dipped vanilla milkshake from Hardee's. Drank it on the way home and then hopped online to see how many calories I had taken in. OMG! That darn craving cost me 710 calories! It put me over my daily limit the entire 710 calories. What was I thinking? On top of that when I realized how many fat grams were also in the milkshake, believe me, I won't be doing that again! It wasn't even all that good. :P

Lesson learned ... when I'm craving ice cream I'm better off just buying some low fat non sugar ice cream (Blue Bunny has great flavors) and eat it or make my own milkshake with it at home. I can control the portion size and the calories and fat. Expensive lesson, and one I hope won't kill me on the scale tomorrow. I was doing so darn well this week, too! ::sigh:: Ah well, stuff happens and I'm only human.

We have plans to go out today somewhere and do some walking. Don't know where yet, but it's going to happen. I think I may even make my pedometer challenge of at least 2000 steps every day this week averaged. We'll see in the morning!

I'm very close to two mini-goals. The first will be a surprise and should happen definitely by the end of next week. Watch here for more about that as it happens. The second is the goal of being under 400 pounds by March 1st. That is definitely going to happen. And it feels great to be approaching both of them. Soon, I'll have to post my 150 pounds gone pictures and that's going to be wonderful!

Woo hoo ... gotta keep going!