Working at Home

I have to tell you all I work at home. My job in in my home, which makes it quite difficult to not wonder down stairs and look for something to eat. I don't have a set time to eat so I just wonder in when I am starving. Since I have been reading this book it says I have to change my habits. One of my habits is eating. And it really does not help that I love to cook as well. So what I need to do is set some meal times. I need to get away from my office for breaks even if it is to do laundry or walk around the block. Set meal times will help also with not eating to late at night. Look it is almost 6:00 pm and I have not eaten dinner yet. I remember growing up and we at at 5:00 pm almost everyday. Balance is another thing I need to set, but I better start with meal times and breaks first.


Hey did I tell you I went to work out again. My walking is doing better. You all know I am training for a 5K. Still only doing 40 ounce of water. Now that the new scale is here I have been losing ounces. Ounces add up to pounds! Saturday will be my weight in day. I can hardly wait for this.


I think next time I blog it will have to be on the place if chose for a gym. Me and my family went to check out a lot of places.

5 k walk (3.1 miles) In an hour

After I wrote the last blog I just had to check out about 5k walks. I need to start setting my goal for this. You know I have a vision now, not just losing weight but something I want to accomplish in life. That is what the tapes say that I am listening to. Now it is starting to make sense on what they are saying. I googled about 5k walks and this article was the best. About.com, 5k walk Training Schedule for Beginners. That is me in a nutshell. They give great tips on how to do this. I printed it out and put this on my wall of encouragement. I do suggest a wall of encouragement this helps a lot. Put positive scriptures, quotes or sayings out there to look at daily.

Stating Monday if the weather permits I am going for a 15 min. walk that is it around my block. I think we can all have 15 min. I know I spend 15 min looking around. Hey I pick up the new All You magazine to. They have a great article in there about Drop 18 pounds. I love this magazine, this is my all time favorite. Here is something that was interesting: Obese people spend $1,429 more on medical expenses. Source: Health Affairs. I took that out of the magazine.

Ready set let the journey begin.

Christmas parties

There was not weight in yesterday, so I am going by my scale at home. It looks as if I lost about 1lb. Not bad, but now great either. They say if you lose weight slowly you tend to keep it off.

We went to a Christmas party last night. It was a blast, oh and I got a lot of ideas on how to decorate my house. Anyway I watched how people ate and what they ate. Several of the ladies I sat with look really good. Salad was the item they piled on their plate. So when you are watch what skinny people eat and how much they put on their plate. Then they put just a little of this and a little of that. I told them all I was doing a blog on my weight loss. So we talked about how they lost it and how they maintain their weight. It was nice to talk with them because they have the same struggles. One of the ladies is going to do the 5 k walk with me in the spring. It is usually in March. I hope it is not the same time we go on the Cruise. So I better find out when it is and plan for it. That made me excited, that someone was going to do it with me. Now it made me even more determined to do this. I think by having this set goal of doing a 5k walk will help. Maybe if I google it they will have something on training for a 5k walk.Stay tuned and I will see what I can do. I really need to go purchase a pedometer.

On day's it is warmer I am going to send out a text to my friends to walk the river walk. We have great place to walk around here. I want to hike one day to. Today I feel a lot better than yesterday. Women go thought a lot more emotions than men do. That is why exercise is so important I really should go work out today.

Ready set let the journey begin.