After Christmas post

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas! It seems from all the posts I've been reading that everyone did.

I even managed to lose 0.2 pounds which I'm sure will catch up to me this week after all I ate on Thursday. I don't usually worry about watching what I eat on the holiday. It's just a big deal to me. And there was plenty of good food to go around at all 3 houses we went to. But it was really nice to see 237.8 on the scale.

Two awesome presents? I got my fitbit finally thanks to the hubby! I've been waiting nearly a year for that bad boy! It's pretty cool. One of these minutes I'm going to actually going to workout and see what it tells me. I've been slacking so bad in that department. I also got a Polar heart rate monitor from my mother in law. So I'm going to be really styling when I go to the gym or workout at home when I strap on all my gear. Ha ha. I am thinking of hitting the treadmill in a bit though and see what all my gadgets say afterward.

I really got a lot of fantastic gifts. But those are my 2 favorites. My Mom sent me a gift card to Target which I've already spent online by ordering a body fat analyzer.

I got back on my diet yesterday. I had to get rid of the cheesecake that was in the house because I wanted to eat it.

Not looking forward to going back to work though. It's going to be a very busy 4 days with the end of the year coming and all.

What snow storm?

I have a picture of me from yesterdays workout that I want to post. But since I'm not the computer geek that my husband is and a lot of other people are I have to wait until later to do that.

But I lost 1.4 pounds this week putting me 238! OMG! I was pretty darn happy. I am finally into the 230's enough to feel secure I don't be moving back up.

I am hoping to be at 235 by the time I go see my doctor next month. Totally doable for sure. That would be 10 pounds less then the last time I saw her. Not a huge about since it has been 3 months but enough for me to be happy and I know she will be proud, too. Have I mentioned how much I love my doctor? I think I have.

So I was so happy about my weight loss that I rocked my workout. I got a new "Biggest Loser" DVD from Netflix and I did that for 30 minutes. I was drenched in sweat. Then I jumped on my treadmill for 35 minutes and rocked out my run. I'm still working on my C25K program. I'm only on week 2 because I kind of took a little time off from it but it's a start.

Last night hubby and watched a movie on Netflix about beauty called "America the Beautiful". It was pretty eye opening. Of course hubby looked at me a few times when certain things came up and I know I am horrible to myself sometimes. But then I did tell him I have been feeling better about myself and treating myself better. And he agreed.

Speaking of Netflix, "Food Inc" is there and I am afraid to watch it. I think it might do to me what "Super Size Me" did to fast food. I might become a vegetarian!

We were supposed to get a big huge snow storm yesterday. It didn't really happen. At least not in my part of the state. We have about 5 inches of snow. Hubby and I decided to brave the crowds and ran out to do some shopping yesterday because if we got stuck in today we couldn't do shopping and I had to get my Mom done so I could mail her stuff to her Monday. But when I got up this morning the storm is pretty much over and we have 5 inches on the ground. But we're lucky. Southern Connecticut has like 2o inches. That is unusual. It's usually the other way around. Not to mention the fact that my older sisters leaves up in Cape Cod and she already has over 20 inches of snow and it's still snowing there.

I had planned on baking my cookie swap cookies today. We'll see. I need them for Tuesday.

Today is my Mother in laws Birthday. We may go over there if hubby wants to drive. Right now they are saying stay off the roads.

Okay so that is my big long update. I am going to workout again today.

I can't believe Christmas is this Friday! OMG!!

Weigh in

Up 0.2 this week which isn't a big deal at all. And to get over it I took new measurements which I didn't do last month and they were down.

I really need to get my exercise into a schedule of some sorts. I worked out twice this week. I am aiming more for 4 times a week. I would like to do Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

I am going back to see my doctor next month and I'd like to really surprise her. So if I can get into a decent exercise routine between now and January 18th (which is my appointment) I might be able to do just that.

I started my Christmas shopping. I am really behind in that and I hate feeling like I'm not going to get it done. Hubby and I are going to go out today and do some more. I'm not exactly thrilled about the idea of crowds but we have to do what we have to do.

Still enjoying paperbackswap.com. It's so addicting!!

What's going on?!

I finally finally FINALLY saw the 230's! I weighed in at 239.2 last week. Woohoo! Talk about exciting. I was thrilled!

I had planned on getting back to the gym tonight but I just dread going at night. I really want to get back to going in the morning. I am going to try. I just don't like coming home, eating and then going back out to the gym. I don't like having a full stomach. Blah!! I did workout at home tonight and even though I wasn't really into the weights, I was totally into the running. I am really enjoying the running. STILL!!

And how about "The Biggest Loser"?! WOW! Everyone looked amazing. But is it me or did Tracey look a bit too thin?! I was happy that Rebecca won the at home prize because I loved her. I didn't like the blonde hair though. And I wanted Rudy to win because he's from Connecticut and I'm in Connecticut but Danny looked great and I was happy with him winning, too. I cried through most of the episode. I'm a dork like that.

I joined this awesome website that my sister told me about called paperbackswap.com and I love it. I am big book reader and you can get rid of books you don't want and get more books! All you do is pay for postage. I already sent out 3 books and got my first book!! I went to the used bookstore last weekend and picked up 2 new Sookie Stackhouse books (I'm almost down with the 2nd one) plus 2 other books for the price I would pay for one new book. It's unreal!!

Hubby and I are going to (finally) start our Christmas shopping this weekend. I know-we're slow.

We had our first snow storm of the season yesterday. Ugh. I hate snow. I am not sure why I live here either. Not a snow gal at all.

I'm beat. Whew!