Math

Here's a math problem for you:

Teacher Appreciation Week + Funeral + Stressors that keep coming = Not a good week on the scale

4.4 pounds gained this week.  The silver lining in all of this is that I did not get upset and throw a big pity party.  Maybe because I expected it or knew that there was no way I could lose weight when I was not great this week.  Or maybe because it takes me back to the whole title of this blog.  I don't have a deadline that I am trying to get healthy / skinny by.  This is a life style change.  I am doing this for me and not for some event. 

Teacher Appreciation Week is the best week ever at our school.  Our PTSG spoils us!  The spoiling takes the shape of lots of candy, great meals, and other yummy surprises.  I know this, and I should have prepared for it, but I did not.  I did not track a single point this week...not a single one!  I also wanted and ate a lot of ice cream this week.  I did.  A friend of mine posted this on FB the other day, and I laughed because I definitely need to remember this:

Maybe when I have a desire for sweets I can remember that I am sweet enough.  I don't need that extra sweetness in me.  We will see how that works for me! 

I also didn't work out the way I should have this week.  I am not even sure if I ran once this week.  GASP!  (Not sure if the shocking part is that I didn't run or that I can't even remember if I ran this week!)  I am going to start again this week, and I will just do this week of running over again.  I will run for 45 seconds and walk for 15 seconds. 

The awesome thing about gaining weight this week?  It is motivating me to keep going.  Start again.  Get back on track.  Now the plan is to: