The weekend that was!

Man, it has been a great, emotional, fun, activity filled weekend!

First and foremost thank you for all those who gave their lives to support our freedom!  To you and your families…a HUGE SINCERE THANKS!

Second, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Dad and Teresa, Happy Birthday Anika (Saturday), Happy Birthday Rachel (today)!  I hope you all had WONDERFUL days!

Friday was a fun day filled with a 4 mile training walk, a hike, a puppy who had a BLAST swimming, a beautiful sunset, new chips and a brat boiled in beer…

 

 

Saturday was emotional for things that have been going on far too long that needed to end.  Saturday was a 6 mile training walk in the HOT HOT SUN!  Thank you for being my training buddy Erin!

Saturday was also a day of a beautiful niece and a nephew with a Mohawk!  Oh yeah…and a 3 year old birthday party for a great kid!  We had fun!  (But there are no pictures, I was NOT on my game that day!)

Sunday started with a clean apartment, a visit from friends to help cheer me up, fun cards, balloons and lottery tickets.  Alas we did not win!  Sunday was also a day of girl time with Erin, a pool, 3 dogs, a hungry girl meal and GIRLIE movies!  Thank you for the fun time Erin!

 

Monday…ah Monday!  You were a day of giving thanks.  A day of a HARD, LONG, HOT bike ride…that yielded a most EXCELLENT calorie burn!  A day of 2 yummy salads (hello prickly pear dressing!)  A day of 8 great friends, a great chick flick, and love all around!

 

 

Weekend…thanks for treating me so well!  How about we do it again soon?

How was your weekend?

Playing in the Rain

Yesterday was a pretty good day!  It started out with lots of errands and ended with Reese and I playing in the rain….TWICE!  We had a couple of quick summer storms pass through and we just had fun playing in the rain!

Reese now weighs 27.6 pounds…big girl!  We started our training walk a little too late.  It was hot and hard on both of us…thank goodness there was a stream and water for Reese!  I won’t be doing that again!  From now on…we get up and do it early!

 

By the time we were done Reese and I were exhausted!  So I OBVIOUSLY got one of these :)

Dropped Reese off at home and went grocery shopping.  Sun Harvest has pineapples and pints of strawberries for $.98…Limit 4…so OF course I got 4 of each! 

Lunch was DELISH.  It was Whole Foods Sour Dough Bread, Farm fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, mozzarella cheese with a little olive oil.  IT WAS SO LIGHT AND FRESH!  Can’t wait to have it again for lunch today!

Not much else happened…still not feeling 100%.  Looking forward to a weekend of fun with friends!

The rest of Today’s Eats:  1/2 of an apple wheat and cinnamon peach pancake…there was a lemon poppy seed…but I didn’t like it.

For dinner…YUMMY.  I tried out Roni’s Roasted Radishes.  I have never even had radishes and they were SO SO DELISH!  Thanks Roni!  Go check out her website…TONS of great ideas!

 

Must get up now and get that training walk out of the way before it gets TOO hot! 

Make today a GREAT day!

Adult vs.. Kid time!

Today was a fun day…well most of it anyway!

Started out going to a local farm’s stand…YUMMY tomatoes, squash, peaches and basil…

 

Followed up with a trip to see Shrek at the IMAX in 3D! 

When Thomas was a baby, Shrek was the one of his FAVORITE movies…so I have seen it a million times!  And I still love it every time!  This movie didn’t disappoint.  It was funny!

Then a quick trip for lunch on the drag…THANK YOU GROUPON!  We tried out a new place and it was healthy and YUMMY!  Behold my whole wheat turkey pita stuffed with veggies and a little bit of hummus!  I am SO going back!

 

The afternoon wasn’t the best!  I should have held off talking about the job interview.  This is WHY I don’t talk about them.  The place really wants me…but for right now they don’t have a place to put me.  She is confident that in 3-6 months they will have a spot for me…but in the meantime, I have to keep putting myself out there and looking for other opportunities.  Such is life!

I am also still not feeling 100%.  I don’t really feel all that well when I eat.  So I am cutting down on bad choices. (That is a good thing, right?)  I tried again to have the frozen yogurt…25 calories per ounce…5 ounces = this…but it still upset my stomach and I slept a lot of the afternoon away!

I am now behind a training walk…so I will walk on Thursday and then again on Friday, Saturday and Sunday…back to back, but I will get them done!  My pretty pedicure will take me far!

The rest of today’s eats:

 

Reese got a new toy…I think she LOVES it!

“This process is FUN”

First things first…I weighed in today and I lost .02…that is since Saturday!  The plan is to finish losing my gain by the next WI!

I heard the above quote today in my 2nd WW meeting of the week.  A lady at the meeting had lost 80 pounds.  Our leader asked her what has changed in her life, what she had learned, her answer…

“I learned that this process is fun.” 

I remember when my process with WW WAS FUN!  I LOVED every week, every day, every moment of my learning process.  I loved how I felt, how others felt about me, the attention, the new clothes, the new Janna, the bigger smile, the confidence, the new adventures!  I want to get back there!  I AM GOING TO GET BACK THERE!  I am TIRED of dreading WI! I am TIRED of spinning my wheels and not going anywhere!  I am TIRED of having an excuse!  NO MORE!  I am the ONLY one controlling my destiny!

The last two days have been weird for me.  On Monday I was sore from my 3, back to back walks, I was physically sick, I was tired.  I just didn’t feel like myself.  Which is why there was no blog.  I was asleep by 7:30 on Monday. 

When I woke up on Tuesday I felt physically better.  I had a doctor’s appointment with my general doctor to get a refill on my thyroid medicine…when I got there I got more than I bargained for.  He started questioning me about me sleeping habits, my eating habits and my exercise habits.  I was baffled, frustrated and crying by the end.  I felt like he was attacking me and what I had done and undone. 

I know in his mind he was trying to help, but in all reality, he doesn’t know much about me.  I haven’t seen him in at least a year and a half, he doesn’t know my everyday and he didn’t really ask.  Will I do what he tells me?  I don’t know.  Maybe.  But I am working on getting back to where I was.

MOVING ON!

So my exciting news from yesterday?  I had a 2nd interview for a job.  I know the interview went well…but I don’t know yet when I will hear back from them…FINGERS CROSSED that it all goes well and I hear back soon!

Yesterday’s Eats:

 

Today’s Eats: LuAnn and I had lunch together and split a goat cheese pizza and a yummy salad…it was the perfect amount of goodness!

My frozen yogurt…and then what I left…I didn’t want it as bad as I thought!

 

Girl’s night dinner…I didn’t want the soup, but the rest I ate :)

   

Dinner before it was cooked, and after…it was yummy and healthy!

And of course…girl’s night and the time I spent with LuAnn today were PRICELESS and AWESOME!  I now have pretty purple toes and I feel better!

Tomorrow is Shrek 4 at the IMAX…and a training walk!  Until then…time for me to go catch up on my favorite blogs!