Saturday Update

This week has been so-so; not spectacular, but not a full blown crash-and-burn, either.  Deadlines at work, Aunt Flo's visit, and everyone battling respiratory infections has made the exercising non-existent difficult .  As much as I hate it, I think I'm going to have to go back to doing mornings again, and then evenings if I have time.  That way, I know I am getting at least one workout a day!  And I have no excuse doing an exercise video; Emily is usually up anyway, and even though I have several DVDs myself, there is a whole line of my favorite ones on Netflix.

One thing I am please about though is that I have eaten breakfast every day this week, had veggies with my lunches (thank goodness for Green Giant's Just for One options and that they've been on sale at Kroger!) and have started drinking Calli tea again.  I've been doing one cup of coffee in the AM with my Bible study, then brewing my small teapot full of tea and take it with me in a to-go mug to work.  Has really cut down on my coffee there, as well, and upped my energy level.  One cup of coffee around 3, and sometimes a cup of decaf while I make dinner, but I'm trying to do more herbal tea in the evening.  It's more psychological than anything else for me to drink coffee - not sure why...  The Calli tea has also seemed to help me not get nearly as bad as Emily and Jonathan with this respiratory infection, too; that and I started back on grapefruit seed extract again.  Started putting it in Ethan's juice, too, over the weekend; maybe it will help boost his immune system a bit.

I'm getting to the point where I know I have no excuses; I have all the knowledge in the world to help with my weight loss - I just have to do it.  I feel like I'm back at the point where I was my senior year of high school; I had a habit I had struggled with for years that I needed to break and I just hit the day where I said "I'm done with it".  Twelve years later I haven't looked back at it.  I feel like I'm at that point again.  You know, the crossroads.  You have to go one way or another and neutral is going backwards.  Just gaining the momentum to make the big push, I suppose... like the Fred Flintstone car!

No more excuses; time to claim the responsibility to get myself healthy again.