From the past few days...

Hello there and welcome to my blog, I hope that you enjoy your stay!

I have a few things to write about from the past few days, so bare with me if this is slightly longer than normal.

Saturday - My weekly weigh ins are Saturday mornings. This week I was down 0.6 lbs. To some that might not seem like a lot, but one thing that I have learned over the past few years of my weight loss journey is that any loss is a step in the right direction. That is more than half a pound and I am quite pleased with that. My co-worker Nicole and I decided that we were going to sign up for a half marathon in October (Nicole, it's in the blog now, so we HAVE to do it!). Today was going to be my first day training. I had been running 5k consistantly in the summer, so I thought I would start with an easy run of 3k and work my way up from there (for those of you that don't know a half marathon is 21km). So, Levi (you will hear LOTS about him) and I started out the run at a pretty good pace and I was feeling pretty good. Until about 1km into the jog. I was dying! Holy cow, I thought that 3km would be an easy start but it has been months since I have run and I guess my regular workouts didn't help much! I did manage to finish the whole 3km but it took me a painfully slow 17 minutes. But I did not stop (even though I'm pretty sure I could have walked the last km faster than I jogged it...HA!) The rest of the day I spent doing calls, and then Tara and Kevin came over for dinner. We did make your own pizzas and watched a movie. We had a great time.

Sunday - I have been on a pancake kick again, for some reason I love pancakes with peanut butter and jam...so Sean made these for breakfast and we headed off to church. After church we came home and I did calls most of the afternoon. I managed to get a nap in there and then did some more business stuff in the evening while Sean went to his parents to watch the superbowl.

Monday - This is now the second week of my new work hours, 8-4 (I was 9-3:30). I got to work and was really not feeling well, but since I refuse to call in sick unless I can't get out of bed I was going to just work through it. I couldn't concentrate, my head was thumping, and I was congested. At 9:30 I made the call and went home sick for the day. I got home and 10 and slept right through until 4. I did a few of the calls I had scheduled for the evening, skipped out on soccer practice and went back to bed early. I don't know what hit me, but I was just wiped.

Tuesday - I woke up this morning still with my head pounding, barely able to open my eyes. I called in sick as I thought I should still try to sleep this off. I slept pretty much until noon. Sean (who is home during the day right now because he is on afternoons) made me some lunch and I have been laying in bed ever since I woke up. I hate being this lazy but what ever "bug" I have has really sucked the life out of me. I am feeling slightly better now, and since the weather looks amazing outside, I am going to try to go for a short walk to see if the fresh air will do me good. I do not want to spend another day stuck in bed (although it is nice to catch up on sleep).

I am also planning on spending some time going through new shake recipes so that I can add some virety to my daily shake routine. Once I have done that, I am going to keep reading this book I borrowed from the library called 397 ways to save money. So far it is really good! There are so many little ideas to save money in this book, and has made me see that all of the little things add up pretty quickly.

I guess since this is the first post in my new blog I will write a little about me so that you will know who I am talking about as you follow along...

Levi = my 19lb minature schnauzer who is my baby. He is very well behaved, but still likes to bark as people come in the door. Give him 5 minutes and he's settled down quietly in your lap. He is very much a "momma's boy".

Sean = my loving husband of 1.5 years. We have a long history (great story) but I'll save that for another day.

My weight loss journey = At 19 years of age I weighed 274lbs. I knew that something had to change and over the course of two years I lost 115lbs. From a size 22/24 to an 8. On my honeymoon I ate a lot of not so good foods and came back 14 pounds heavier. Over the past year and a half that number has slowly gone up and up. But I am now back on track and moving that number in the right direction, back towards my goal.

My work = I work as a medical secretary at the hospital in the city where I grew up. I also own my own business called Online Business Systems. We are a company that uses the internet to market our amazing product (Herbalife) to people all over the world. You will hear a lot more about this in later posts.

My husbands 3 words to describe me = Smart, beautiful, and entertaining. He adds in determined but that is more than 3 words ;).

That's all I'll say for now, stay tuned for future posts!