It's Thursday! Yay, one step closer to the weekend. Totally looking forward to seeing family but not so much bidding farewell to my grandmother.
It's been a crazy week, the death of a former schoolmate, the Bombing at Boston Marathon and last night a massive explosion at a plant near Waco Texas. It wasn't certain if it was due to criminal or what just yet. The town was for the most part leveled with 15 dead and a high number injured. Reports stated that the roof of a nursing home had caved in, middle school was on fire and massive damage to an apartment building. The details are still coming on the Texas explosion. As for Boston, no justice yet as no arrest has been made. Terrible few days in the US. My heart goes out to all those affected by these terrible events.
On a more positive note it was a fantastic morning of yoga today. Everyday should be like this. I can already feel it so I am sure tomorrow I will be moving a little slower although I won't let it stop me. I LOVE YOGA! The over all benefits of Yoga are HUGE!
As my grandmother would say:
I am looking forward to so much but trying to remain in the moment. Results come from taking life one day at a time so not to lose track of the main goal. It's not so much weight loss but health that I long to continue seeing improve. I feel so good right now and while my weight may not register as differing much at all my emotional and physical feel drastically different. I am still fighting with my right arm though, that is the only downside and it may be permanent but anything I can do to make a dent and feel better is worth it. Yesterday I almost dropped a sheet of chicken from the oven! Occasionally I still get numbness or lose momentary use of my arm. Yesterday was one of those moments, but I didn't let it get to me. Thankfully I grabbed the tray with my left hand and all was well.
Focus will remain in the area's of overall health and eating healthy balanced meals in appropriate portions. Today is Hawaiian Meatballs a family favorite for dinner. It is a recipe that I found on Pinterest. While pinning ideas for around the house, crafts, meals and so forth the other day I came across a link to build your own Cookbook. I have always thought of compiling a Family Cook book so I can pass along favorite meals to my girls but additionally it would be a fantastic gift to share with family. I will add this to a list of things I wish to accomplish over the next year....my goal, have it complete prior to Christmas.
Speaking of food I have started the Weight Watchers 1/2 month challenge. I did Weight Watchers years ago with huge success. Literally like 60 pounds in 6 months! It was fast results! I went from 185 after having both my daughters to 110pounds. I may have even been 105 at one point. At 5'4 my husband said I was far too skinny and that I looked like a waif, sickly thin. So I stopped counting points, went back to bad eating habits and thought everything was okay since the weight wasn't returning. After about 4-6 months of eating crap the weight suddenly showed up. I have tried in recent years and months to get back on Weight Watchers but it's hard! Don't ever stop anything you that is working for you, especially if you are like me where getting back on board is tough to do. I am going to do this though for the next 2 weeks. I like how weight watchers works, how the results are quick too. I say two weeks as that is generally the time frame I need to get into routine of counting and measuring portions, after that it becomes habit and then I can make it a daily thing and continue. Right now I am viewing it as a challenge.
Wow all these challenges I am putting on myself...soon people will call me challenged. Haha. I don't mind especially if it motivates me. I look forward to seeing how the challenges wrap up.
The weather has been teasing lately, the sun will show up for a day or even a few hours and then rain which turns into snow rears it's ugly self. I'm done winter!! Go away!! I want to landscape and plant all sorts of things in the back yard and front yard. I want green grass, tank tops and shorts, drinks on the deck....I wouldn't even complain about bugs at this point. That's Calgary for you...wait 5 minutes and it'll be something else.
Well with lots to do still before I jetty out of town I should get on the horse and get going to get everything done so I can get to bed early tomorrow night. In all likelihood I will not have time to blog from today until Monday. There's a possible chance I may tomorrow but I'm guessing last minute things will land on my plate and time will run out for me to update. So I will report back on Monday.
Today My Name Is...Content
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