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What day is it?

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

I keep losing track of the days this week.  All day yesterday, it felt like Thursday.  But when I got home, it felt like Tuesday.  Today at work it felt like Friday for most of the day, except for the parts that felt like Monday.  My brain keeps alternating between planning what I’m doing to do with my day off tomorrow and trying to figure out why I wouldn’t be working the day after.

I will be working tomorrow, by the way.  And I don’t know for how long.  I’m still playing ketchup with my documents.  Closer and closer!  But not there yet.

Justin and I started our health regimen again, too, just like Luke and Krista.  This means that he’s running and I’m going to the gym/exercising at home and logging my food again.  I’m hoping to drop a quick 10 pounds by the end of next month by working very hard keeping track of what I’m eating and being sure to exercise it off.  Justin will, I’m sure, lose 10 pounds just by stepping outside in his tennis shoes.  The ease with which men in their 20s lose weight is sometimes very frustrating.  Oy!

Anyway, we’ve been at it for a couple days now and, can I say?  I forgot how hard these first days are!  So tired!  So sore!  Did I mention tired?  Tired!  And sore!  I’m looking forward to the end of next month and being long past this extreme tiredness and surprising soreness.  And hopefully my pants will be fitting better again by then, too, and that will be a huge relief.  It’s hard to breathe!

I’m focusing on short-term goals for this at the moment—log my food, exercise, get through the week, hope to lose 10 pound in a month.  If I try to think further out than that, I have troubles.  Not that I couldn’t do the math out and everything; just that I’m frustrated about having to lose some of this weight over again and I don’t want to think about how long that’s going to take me.  So I’ll think about these first couple pounds, up to the first 10, and later on, I’ll be able to think more long distance.

Not to worry that I don’t think about extended plans at all though.  Work is offering a second health option plan next year that has an account associated with it that is, essentially, investing money to use for health purposes after retirement.  We haven’t decided yet if that’s the option we’re going to use (there’s math to be looked at), but it sounds like an interesting opportunity.  I can start putting money away now, pre-taxes, that can be used later, with no taxes involved in pulling the money out, to pay for poor health after retirement.  Or put money away now for paying later when something big happens, medically.  Like babies. (LATER.  NOT NOW.)  But I don’t know.  We still have to look at the math.

Anyway, that’s pretty much what’s on my brain tonight.  I tired and sore from my workout this afternoon.  I’m working in the morning, but hopefully only until 2:00 or so.  And then I’ve got the weekend!  During which I think we’re going to look at rearranging some furniture.  It’s exciting, ya’ll!  :)

Actually, I’m really glad to have so little to write about today.  I’ve needed some mundanity for a while.  I hope you’re all having boring days, too!  ;)

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Erica wanted to see me in a dress

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

So you all get to see me in two.

I took these pictures over the weekend, just in case you were wondering.  I was at work until 6:15 today.  No way I was taking pictures when I got home.

But here you go!  This first dress is what I’m thinking of wearing to a cocktail dinner at the symposium for work.  It’s jackets and ties for guys.  Nice dresses for girls.

Cocktail dress

My wonderful photographer caught his reflection in the mirror . . . .

Ugh, the back fat

Apparently, I need to not let it fall down so far in the back . . . .

It really looks better in person

Also, I wasn’t aware when he took that picture.  I think I was asking him a question about earrings.

And for the wedding:

From the front . . . .

Fuzzy, but you get the idea

I don’t have any shoes to wear with this unless I wear the black ones from the first pictures.

Also, I think it might be time to invest in a good strapless bra . . . .  Not that I’m bra-less in these photos!!  Just that it’s not a great bra.

So . . . verdict?  Are the tan lines too obvious?  Are the dresses to casual?  Am I too fat to wear these dresses?  (Please say no because otherwise I’ll start crying.)  Leave your comment after the tone.

*Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

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Babblings

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Well, my will held out until about 2:30 yesterday, and then I went home.  I hit the pillow of my bed around 3:10 and I was dead to the world until almost 7:00, when I heard Justin talking on the phone and stepping out onto the front porch.

I feel so much better today!  I’m eating real food!  My brain is functioning correctly!  It’s a wonderful day.  :)

Plus, hey!  It’s already Tuesday!  I’m going to see my parents over the weekend and I am So! Excited! to see them it’s hard to say.  And then we’re going to make a second attempt at going to the Ren Faire and I’ve been looking forward to that for several months.  I’m trying to figure out where I’m going to get my henna tatoo this year.  I get one every time we go.  Last time (in 2008) I got a rather large fairy on my shoulders.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do this year, but I’d like it to be in a place where I can actually see it without a mirror.

In other news, my pants are too big.  The pants I wore yesterday were too big, too.  But I thought these fit!  I’m going to have to wash them “wrong” and see if I can get them to shrink a little bit because this is getting silly.  It’s easier when shirts don’t fit quite right.  When pants don’t fit, they have a tendancy to try to fall off!!

Such a bother.  :)

I’m going to go outside and see if it’s as nice out as I think it is!  Cheers!

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Weight-loss progress

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Before -- Christmas 2009

Current -- April 2010

Okay, so anyone who doesn’t want to hear about diet stuff can skip this post and go back to admiring our work on the lawn.  :)

As you can hopefully tell from the pictures, I’ve lost about 20 pounds.  This is crazy amazing to me because I’ve only been seriously working at this since the beginning of March.  To lose 20 pounds in a month is insane!  I’ve slowed down to about 2 or 3 pounds a week now, but those first couple weeks were crazy!

What I’ve been doing is logging every single thing that I eat through MyFoodDiary.com, which I resisted for a long time because of the time commitment involved.  It’s frustrating, sometimes, having to keep track of every little thing and write it down and figure out how big of a serving it was and how many calories were involved and blah, blah, blah.  But ho-ly cow.  There’s no denying the cold, hard truth of nutritional information when it’s all written down and telling you that you just put more than 2000 calories in your body today.  And half of that was sugar.  And you didn’t exercise.

I’ve had to make some adjustments to what I eat and how often and all of that, and it’s been interesting to notice how my appetite has started to change.  If I eat healthy foods, which look more and more appetizing, then I don’t get hungry as often, and I can eat less.  I have more energy to get up and exercise when I’m not so weighed down by a full stomach and it’s easier to sleep when my stomach isn’t bloated with food.

I set a goal for myself to log my food for 30 days straight.  The reward for achieving that was to get an hour-long massage.  I met that goal last week and my massage is scheduled for Sunday afternoon!  I’m on my way to 60 days, now.

Exercise-wise, I’ve been hitting Zumba classes on Monday and Wednesday evening and yoga class on Saturday morning.  Besides that, I try to exercise for about an hour on my own enough times so I maintain a consistent 5 out of 7 days where I’ve exercised.  Not that any day in particular is a “non-exercising” day.  Every day is a day when I should exercise, but some days are too busy and I don’t beat myself up if I can’t get in a workout between work and band practice.

Other than that, I haven’t done anything in particular to work on this.  I try to drink my 64 oz of water or more each day.  If I REALLY need a cookie, and if I can afford the calories, I’ll have a cookie.  But not a handful of cookies followed by a handful of chocolate and ice cream with syrup on top.  If we’re going to a restaurant for dinner, I try to get a hold of the menu online before hand so I can look at the options and find something healthy – like grilled fish instead of breaded and fried fish.  And that’s pretty much the whole story – eating foods that are healthy, in appropriate amounts, and logging it all, while exercising for an hour, 5 days a week, doing something that I really enjoy.

I’m very pleased with my progress so far.  I have a long way to go – I figure I’m just under a quarter of the way to where I’d like to be.  I figure, at my current rate of weight-loss, I should be in the 100s by late May.  And I should be down about 40 pounds by the 4th of July.  My goal when I started was to be down by 50 pounds by the time I went back to my doctor appointment in early September.  I’m hoping to blow her socks off when I get there.

Even better, by Christmas of this year I hope to be almost to my goal weight.  And that makes me a very happy girl!

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Monday is treating me well

Monday, April 5th, 2010

I’m having a lovely morning so far.  I didn’t expect it to be good – it is, after all, a Monday.  A Monday where I’m late on a project and leading a meeting that’s bound to be frustrating and on a day when we’re having really lovely weather outside and I’m stuck in a cold, industrial building with no windows.  But unexpected things just keep on popping up and they’re making it a fun day.

Yesterday at church, a reporter from the local newspaper came to the service and took photos so he could write an article about the “Shoes for Soles” project that we did.  It was “Barefoot Sunday” and everyone was encouraged to bring a pair of shoes to donate and go barefoot for the rest of the service.  The church collected over a thousand shoes to send out to people in Haiti and Rowanda.

The front of the newspaper today is 2/3 covered in a picture of the piano player’s foot.  And I’m standing in the background—blurry, but still vaguely recognizable as me.  The article that’s supposed to be on page 10 – 11 isn’t actually anywhere to be found in the paper, but maybe it’ll be out tomorrow.   I really don’t know what’s going on there.  But hey!  I’m on the cover of the newspaper!

I was invited to the 9:00 meeting that the director of my department holds on Mondays.  I was invited to this meeting once before and it turned out well, but it’s always a little scary being invited to a meeting with the “big dogs.”  This meeting turned out well for me again – I was given an award for my hard work on my projects lately.   There are three levels of awards:  bronze, silver, and gold.  Bronze awards come with a set of free tickets to a movie theatre in Savannah.  (Not terribly useful to us since it’s about an hour away from home.  I have four of those tickets in my purse right now.)  Silver awards come with a $50 voucher to the Wal-Mart close to the company grounds.  (And it really only works at that specific Wal-Mart.)  And Gold awards come with a $300 bonus check.

I was awarded a Silver award at the meeting.  $50 to spend at Wal-Mart!  It’s pretty exciting.

As a side-note, I received a Bronze award in January and again in February.  I was thinking I’d work on a trend and see if I could get one every month of the year.  (Who deserves a promotion?  I do!)  :)   I didn’t get on in March, but I figure getting a Silver award makes up for both March and April.  Don’cha think?

On my way back to my desk from the meeting, I passed my lead.  (Or co-lead?  I’m not totally sure where he fits on the current chain-of-command, actually.)  He took a double-take and said, “Kylene, you’re shrinking!  Is that from Zumba?  I almost didn’t recognize you!”  It made me laugh, especially because he had to back-track and explain that he meant it in a good way and not at all badly . . . he’s very concerned about being proper to women in the workplace.  I have no idea what I’m doing differently from Friday when he saw me last, but made me feel really nice.

By the way, the scale on Saturday said I weighed 213.5 pounds, with shoes on.  That’s down 3 pounds from last week and about 19 pounds from my starting weight.  And I’m on day 29 of logging my food in a row!  If I can make it all the way through today and tomorrow (and really, why wouldn’t I?) then I can call and schedule my massage.  How awesome is that?!

But I’ve run up to the end of my lunch hour so I’ve got to go ahead and post this.  I hope you’re all having a fantastic Easter Monday!

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