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Slimmer this Summer – Kickoff!

Angela Pea6 Comments
I’ve been working towards my goal weight for a long, long time. Almost five years now!  It’s been up and down for me, a spectacular down when I first started, a very ugly “up” after my stroke, and decidedly and consistantly down ever since.  I’ve lost a total of 62 pounds to date.  My first fifty pounds came off in six months. I gained about 25 back after the stroke, joined Weight Watchers Online and shed the 25 plus 4 spare pounds and then got stuck on a most heinous plateau. I started going to regular Weight Watchers meetings for the support and encouragement, losing 8 more pounds in the past five months.  I now have 17 more to lose to hit my goal weight. These last pounds, however, are giving me so much grief.  They are stubbon and persistant and are clinging to my bones like stink on a hog.  I celebrate every ounce lost and shed tears over every one gained.
It’s summer now, and Debi over at Debbi Does Dieting and Mir at Happy Weight After have set up a Summer Challenge.
The plan in a nutshell –
          • Blog our goals!!
          • Track food and water
          • Limit those calories
          • Get moving!
          • Blog Weekly with results
          • No winners or losers, so NO QUITTING!!
          • Cheer on fellow challengers
 So.  What is my goal?  To hit my goal weight by the end of this summer.  To do this I will:
  • Track my food consumption and exercise consistently and honestly
  • Stay within my daily point allowance; extravagant food choices (4th of July! Beer!) will be earned with activity points before they are consumed; weekly points?  Try not to dip into them!
  • Earn a minimum of 50 activity points a week; this equates to about 30 minutes a day of high level cardio
  • Blog Weekly – I’ll post my WW results weekly
  • No quitting?  No brainer.  I haven’t quit yet!
  • Follow fellow challengers and share some positive thinking

I love having a plan. It suits my Type A Self perfectly!

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Blogger is Back!

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…but I have nothing to post at the moment.  I have a knitting project that is almost finished and ready for the etsy shop.  I’ll be back in a bit… If you’re bored, there are fresh posts over at Keeping the Faith – Healthy Me Version!EMail Anglea Pea

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Friday and a NSV!!

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NSV…sure.  Get to that in a minute. I had a RSV (Real Scale Victory) this week, too!  Down 2.8 pounds, putting me at 162.0, the lowest I’ve been in eons!  As Elvis would say,

Thank you.  Thank you very much.

The NSV?  Today on my lunch hour I grabbed one of the company bikes and rode fifteen miles. FIFTEEN, I tell you!  How did I do it? Lets start with a very frustrating morning dealing with

work
DirtBike
disappointment

not necessarily in that order.  Then  take into consdieration that it’s B-E-A-YOOOOOOO-tiful outside and sunshine makes me happy.  Mix those two together, toss in my need to rail against something and a totally awesome bike and Voila!  I totally beat up those bike pedals!  Rode from my office all the way to highway 183 and back to the office.

This is where I rode today!  Interesting transition from the
pavement in “downtown” to the suburb pavement.
The trees on the other side of the Trinity look like they’re getting a drink.

Smiling and feeling much, much better!

I think I need to learn how to hold the phone and take pictures of myself while riding, like Bitchcakes does. I’m not that coordinated, though, and would probably crash the bike. Which wouldn’t be good, because it’s a company bike, not actually my own.

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