More random thoughts

So while I didn't pig out on Thanksgiving, I definitely exceeded my daily allowance of WW points.  I'm okay with that.  I started the day putting in the turkey, getting most everything ready and then I did an hour of Zumba and an hour of spin.  Thank goodness I was meeting friends at the gym, because I would have easily blown it off!

I thought it was interesting- nearly everyone in my family, as I had thought would happen, ate in moderation.  When I passed on the pie (more on that in a minute), no one said a word.  Even my nephew is turning into Mr. Buff!  It was nice.

As for the pie, someone took home the extra pumpkin.... so I ended up buying one today!!  It just didn't seem right to have a Thanksgiving weekend without any pumpkin pie!!

Yesterday, I had my leftover dinner and I probably could have scaled back a bit on it.  I used up my extra Weight Watcher points and even dipped into my exercise points allowance.  Oops.  That's a lot of eating.  And to be honest, I don't think I actually got everything that i ate.  I think starting on Monday, I'm going to have to start measuring.  It could have been worse or maybe not quite so bad-- I have no idea.  And most of the extra points went to alcohol.

Today it took a lot to get me to go to a spin class.  I wasn't feeling it.  Not even a little.  I went.  I wear a heart rate monitor, so I know when I'm pushing it.   I was most definitely not pushing it.

And my mind started to wonder.

I was really jealous of the fit people on the treadmills.  They weren't killing it.  They were maintaing.

I can not wait until I'm maintaining.

As I've said, I'm taking this very slowly on purpose.  Little changes.

But for fitness the thing is, the more you do, the more youhave to push to get the same results.  That's what's happening.  If I want to keep each hour of exercise to 500-600 calories burned, I'm going to have to keep pushing.

And I just want to be maintaining.  It looks like a lot less work.

So I was tired, stuffed, a little whiny and not looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in.

Here we are 3 months into it. I'm getting bored. This is where I have to push through. 

I would really like to hit at least 10 pounds lost before the holidays!!  I am okay with slow, but this seems irritatingly so.  I keep wondering how all these people lost 60 pounds in 6 months.  I'm nowhere close to making that happen.


I think I might end up blogging a bit more to get over the hump. I can do this. I will do this. I'm committed to a year of this- tracking, pushing the exercise, blogging... and then, we'll see.  It'll be what it is. 

And that's all I've got today.