Back on top...

We went to Costco today and LOADED up on blueberries, raspberries, apples, bananas, oranges, peaches, peppers, and lettuce - which was the final shove I needed to burst OUT OF MY LULL! Hooray - feeling back on track again and happy! I love summer and all her treats!

Lull-a-bye

So....I'm in a little bit of a lull.  Trips always do this to me - they ruin my momentum.  I eat poorly, miss a few workouts, gain a couple pounds and VOILA I'm bummed out and in a lull.    So while in Idaho I gained a few pounds and this week I'm not making the kind of progress I want to.  Instead I'm just trying to get back to where I was before the holiday.  So that's two weeks lost.  Bummer, eh?  

Another thing putting me in a lull is the fact that I need to go to the grocery store.  I don't have enough healthy choices around here so I get hungry and mad and end up hating weight watchers.  

Put it together and what have you got?  Me feeling more fat than ever.  Isn't it horrible how we do that to ourselves?  When we are having a hard time working out instead of getting all motivated we beat ourselves up and feel five times bigger than the day before.  And for the record let me say that I HATE walking in and out of Gold's Gym.  Seriously - at the grocery store I may be a normal pudgy young mom but at Gold's Gym I am a seriously overweight woman in her 40's.  Ugh.  Oh well, here's a comic strip to give you a laugh...

Fat mom swims...

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted - my computer is broken. Tonight I am using Mike's laptop from work.

My workout today was to swim for 30 minutes and it felt great. As I was swimming I was thinking back to June when swimming was so difficult. I was doing mostly breaststroke because I couldn't barely make it across the pool doing free-style without choking and feeling like I was going to drown. Tonight I swam over a half a mile(1000 meters) and did the whole thing in free style! I even passed the guy in the lane next to me! I have really come to love swimming. I am happy when I see that I get to swim on my schedule. I love that my body doesn't hurt, that I stay nice and cool, and the rhythm of my breathing and the water splashing. Swimming is a good workout for fat moms...except the walk to and from the pool. I hate parading around in my swimsuit but once I'm in the water I'm ok. I am actually pretty proud of making so much progress in just one month.

In other news I just got back from a little trip we took for the 4th. And let me say that it is really hard to eat well when you are staying at some one else's house and eating their food. I ate terribly and I didn't get to all of my workouts either. But oh well, I'm just gonna have to take it in stride.

Right now my least favorite workouts are actually my running ones. I'm just so all over the place with my pace - though when I'm on the treadmill it does help. Hopefully those workouts become just as enjoyable as the swimming. I'm sure they will...in time.