Going to the boonies for 10 days....

Well I’ve been doing pretty good on food and exercise this week and I’ve managed to keep my week goal intact for this week. I ran twice this week did ST twice so far and I’m due to do the next one tomorrow and I’ll be out camping so have my bands on hand and will give it a try.

My ex-friend MrT showed up this morning so that kind of explained my mood swings this week. He disappeared for a couple of months but is back. I truly should have expected it because I’m leaving this afternoon for 10 days WITHOUT RUNNING WATER!!! It is just my luck this should happen. Oh well, I will makeshift something while out camping.

So I won’t be on blogland for awhile and I truly hope I come back to read some wonderful success stories from everyone.

 

Have a fantastic day!

 

S

 

 

Goals....

I’m so bad about keeping up with my Goals. I write them out, state that I’m going to do them every week and that works fine for one, maybe two weeks, but then I forget. I think goals are important because then you have something to strive towards, a sense of accomplishment when you reach it. I think that is why I keep joining the challenges – and some of them I never finish because I forget to send in my numbers but I’ve never finished trying.

I read some comments in Facebook this morning and they were talking about setting short term goals, and in my head my Number ONE goal to work on this week is to NOT eat after 7:30 p.m. I tend to eat something before bed just out of habit more than a need so I was going to identify that goal on here for the rest of this week.

Then I read my horoscope on my iGoogle and it states:

 

Tuesday, June 23
You should be feeling extremely sociable at the moment, and you can probably expect an awful lot of activity on the social scene before the day is through. Don't be afraid to make a fresh start with a few of your friends today. And you really ought to spend a little time thinking about some of your most important goals right now as well.

 

The last line says it all. Too many coincidences here to ignore so here I go:

Short Term Goals:

Week June 22^nd   – NO eating after 7:30 p.m.

Week June 29^th    – Exercise EVERY day (I’ll be out camping so this could be a bit of a challenge), eat as healthy and clean as I possibly can.

Week July 6^th        – Unknown at this time.

Long Term Goals:

Walk/Jog 75 Miles per month (increase each month by 5 miles) (I’ve been increasing my running by one minute each week so it should be easy enough to add 5 miles for month).

** Lose 45 lbs (or wherever my body is comfortable).

 

** I am a large boned gal and 140 lbs might just not be an attainable goal for me if I have a lot of lean muscle mass (wishful thinking maybe??).

 I have no idea at this point but I’m sure going to try. I’m only 5’2” so I should be able to do 140 or less.

 

Do you have short term and long term goals?

 

Ttyl

 

S

Scales, Camping, NSV ....

I’m stuck – that’s all I can say. I gained 7 lbs when I went to Mazatlan in May and I have worked out hard and diligently every week. But the scale just isn’t moving. I’m running 3 times a week, I’m strength training 3 times a week, I walk to the train 3 x a week (2 miles). I walk the dog, I walk at lunch, I can’t seem to budge that scale. I don’t know what more I can do other than reduce my calories even more but I’m not on a diet I’m on a way of life and if I can’t eat the way I am going to for the rest of my life, then I don’t want to do it. This is a learning process for me and I’m trying to eat as clean as I possibly can. I am learning to eat healthy and make good choices and this is a lifetime plan. I’m keeping my calories to around 1500 on average and I don’t want to go below that. I do still drink my beer twice a week and I suppose if I completely cut that out, I’d lose a bit faster but again, am I going to stop drinking ?? (I know I should but I won’t and that’s just the bald faced truth). It’s summer and we go camping and camping, fires and beer just go together in my world….

So speaking of Camping – I do not eat 100% clean while camping because it isn’t as easy to pack as much fresh produce as I like to eat. We are leaving on Thursday to go out for 10 days in the middle of no-where. Which means no electricity, a fridge that isn’t big enough to hold a bunch of veggies and fruit and only enough ice to keep things cold for awhile.

In the past (last year), I just ate like everyone else – carbs, canned veg & protein. I’m not sure what to do this time. Anyone have any suggestions? My shakes are no good unless they are blended so I can’t bring that stuff, I could eat cereal for breaky but not sure what would be the best kind that doesn’t have a bunch of sugar and stuff I can’t pronounce. I can only eat eggs so many days or I’ll be adding on tons of fat there. I’ll bring lots of apples as I love them and they don’t have to be refrigerated.

And for exercising while I’m away – I’ll be walking the dog a lot but I want to keep up with the strength training so I’m bringing along my bands. A little tough to bring the weights and I think I can adjust what I have been doing and use the bands instead. Might not be as challenging but it will be something. I may not be able to run while away as the campground is pretty isolated and to be totally honest, I’m not sure it is safe for me to venture out alone. Bear country and not that many people around (at least none that I would know anyway). I did pack my skipping rope though so hoping to try out some intervals using it.

NSV - I was at a family gathering on the weekend and there were some folks there that I haven’t seen in over a year. Well man did I get a lot of compliments and it made me feel slightly self conscious. Not sure why but I think it is because I haven’t been feeling like I have been all that successful lately. The other part of me gloried in the comments as it felt good to be recognized for the hard work I have been doing. I am my own worst enemy so it was nice to hear good things from other people. So even though it is going slow and the scale is stupid, my inches have reduced greatly in the last 6 months. I will be posting more on that later (yes another challenge). I’ve gone from a size 18/20 to a 12/14 in the last 6 months and have only lost 23 lbs in weight.

And another thing I have to remember is that I think I am going through the beginnings of menopause (Mr. T hasn’t shown up since April) and that will cause a delay in the scale moving (at least I think it does).

I hope all of you have a fantastic week.

TTYL

S

Tony made me do it....

Yup, I'm doin it! I'm joining another challenge and I like this one as it doesn't focus on the scale so much. It's going to be based on how I feel and how I look at the end of the 60 days. Now with summer in the middle and lots of camping, this could be even more of a challenge for me.

This is the only picture I could take today and I hope to get something better up but it will work for now.

I have come along ways but I have a long ways to go and I'm determined this year. Seems the older I get, the more stubborn I am.

And this is a picture of my walking partner - she was in surgery again today to remove one of the screws from the plate she got put in her left hind leg in April (spiral fracture the poor thing). The screw was making its way out of the plate so they removed it. Otherwise she got a good bill of health and the bone is healed and we can walk/run her all we want. Yahoo!

Journaling

I have been journaling lately (actually when don’t I journal, I must have 15 different books started at one time or another) to keep track of this phase of my challenge. I’ve joined two blogging challenges, and started the Chalene Extreme workouts for June so thought I’d track EVERYTHING and be totally honest with myself. I didn’t start it June 1^st, but rather June 9^th so I was already a week behind for the exercise start date, but not the Blog challenges. So this morning I reviewed it to see how I have been doing (like I didn’t already know) and I’ve not been a good girl.

 

I can eat 100% on track, clean and lean throughout the day but when I get home I make the wrong choices. I highlighted problem areas in my book in florescent pink and there is a circle around something almost EVERY day. It’s an eye opener. I have succeeded in keeping the calories under 2000 per day even on the “bad” days (I want to keep it to 1500 and eating clean only), and with all my exercising, I should be burning them off lickety split, but I think (and I’m pretty sure I am right) what I am eating is just staying on my body regardless of the amount of exercising. I think I am going through a pre-menopausal stage (am 2 weeks late so far) and 47 years old, and I have yo-yo’d for the last 20 years, so my metabolism is totally screwed. I need to fix it.

 

Journals are a good thing.

Hmm... not the only one

I’ve been catching up on some blogs this morning and it seems like I’m not the only one that had a miserable day yesterday or was “bad” on the weekend. Seems like something is in the air! But regardless of the scent in the air, the mood in the crowd, I did much better yesterday and feel good today. A day of junk (Sunday), makes Monday a crappy feeling day. I also have a headache that started on Sunday and still is sitting there today. It’s like having half a migraine as it is only affecting the left side of my head – I hate them and although I don’t get them often, they bug me when they happen. Unfortunately I suffer from headaches often (just not this type).

I ate fairly well yesterday and when I got home I weighed myself – bad idea on most days but what it confirmed was that I was holding water weight in the morning – cause for the 4lb gain because at the end of the day, I was down 2 lbs (even with food sitting in my belly) and this morning back to what I should have been in the first place. Yeah!

So even with the headache, I did my strength training yesterday, and 2 mile walk to the train station. Did not do anything else during the day. I was going to walk home from the train at the end of the day but the wind picked up and it started to rain. I had just taken my umbrella out of my back pack just that morning so I should have known it was going to rain :) . When I got home, I made my dinner of spaghetti squash mixed with WW spaghetti with a couple of Tbs of Parmesan cheese. I’d never tried it before and had everything in my fridge, so threw it together and had a small bowl. It was quite good. But it did not have any protein and I need my protein – so the next time I make it, I’ve got to throw some meat on the side. Since I was so tired by 8:00, I went to bed pretty early. 4:00 a.m. comes pretty fast you know and most days I only get around 6 hours of sleep – it’s no wonder that by Friday’s I’m just beat. And the BF came to bed around 2:30 and then spent the next hour snoring so I’m glad I went to bed early – I at least got some sleep in before he came along.

This morning, I got my daughter up early to drive me to the train station so I could come downtown and meet my Learn to Run partner so we could run along the river. As soon as I got on the train, I read her note on my BB stating she couldn’t make it. Humph…. I dropped off my gear at work and went running by myself. It was good for me to go through this. I have not run by myself yet. I’ve always felt self conscience and so have only run with someone else. I always had the fear that everyone I passed was saying “oh look at the fat girl run” but this morning I discovered, NO ONE CARES!!! Only me. So in the end I’m glad she cancelled and I had to run on my own. I have gotten over my “self consciousness” and will now hit the roads when I feel like it instead of putting it off because I didn’t have anyone to run with. My camping weekends are set now yahoo !! Silly I know….

So today is going to be a good day for me and I truly hope all of you have a fantastic day!

Ttyl

S

I hate scales....

I probably wouldn’t hate it so much if it just lied to me instead of slapping me in the face with bare stark truth reality. I gained 4.2 lbs since last Friday. Is that due to water retention? Could be, I’m about 11 days late waiting for Mr. T to show up…. Could be the Iced Cappuccino that I drank on Saturday and then again another one on Sunday? Maybe – lots of calories there. How about the hotdog before the concert on Saturday night? Or the fact that that was almost all I ate all day other than my post exercise shake and an apple…. Possibly. OR how about the sunflower seeds and popcorn twists I ate on my 5 hour road trip yesterday? No it was the Pepsi I drank to wash it all down. OH I remember, it’s the 2 pieces of pizza… yah that must be it.

Sheesh, how can one person do so well all week long only to blow it on the weekend. I even packed healthy snacks for the road trip but once the BF opened the popcorn twists, I was a goner. The salt – I love salt. The healthy stuff didn’t get brought out at all. There is absolutely no one to blame but myself. And you know what, I’m getting pretty tired of saying “Well today is a new day a new start, you will do better this week”. I KNOW I will do better this week, it’s the freakin weekends I need to worry about. I know I will lose everything that showed on that scale this morning as it isn’t “real” weight (haven’t eaten enough fibre lately if you get the drift without TMI). I’ll be back down tomorrow but THAT’S NOT THE POINT!!

I so want to lose this weight but I so like eating that junk. How do I get my mind in the right place when I have that crap junk in front of me? Who is stronger??? ME or ME? Which me?

Beating myself up does not do me any good at all. I’m stubborn and just say screw it all…. Even to myself – sad isn’t it.

I visited my 97 year old Grandma yesterday. They just moved her out of house that she has lived in my entire life, into a long term care center (attached the hospital). She is almost blind so it was more of a safety issue than any health issue. She is doing good but not happy as it isn’t her home and she misses it. My point of this is that I obviously could live to be a very ripe old age and although my grandmother lost her eye site, she was still pretty active right up to that point. I need to get my stuff together so that I live a long and healthy life. I want to be fit and sexy… I’m not too old to reach that point of my life … yet. I mean, look at Tosca. She looks fantastic and I want to be just like her. However eating bad on the weekends (which undoes everything I have done during the week) will not get me there. I need to make decisions, and choices and maybe some compromises. If I feel deprived, I rebel and eat lots of crap, so maybe I need to incorporate healthy junk (if there is such thing) into my lifestyle so that I don’t feel like I’m missing out on something. I haven’t figure out how to work this yet but it is worth thinking about.

 

Ttyl

S

 

 

 

I eat....

I had a good day yesterday but I reconfirmed something last night that I already knew but just ignored I think. I totally eat out of boredom and not healthy stuff, I crave the crunchy salty stuff when I’m bored. What’s up with that?? Actually I think I was hungry all day and then last night when I got home all I wanted to do was eat chips, popcorn, corn thins, crackers, anything that went “crunch”.

I ran in the morning, walked home from the train station (2 miles up hill), and did a 10 minute ab session. Then when I got home I sat on my deck in the sun and read my Oxygen magazine. The BF was out training the dog for the night so I had the place to myself and I was enjoying the sunshine and warm weather we were finally having. Then I got the munchies. So I got up and made my dinner shake (didn’t want to make anything else for dinner and it was what I planned to have). Drank that and about half an hour later, I wanted the crunch. I ate 5 corn thins which equal to about 150 calories so it wasn’t so bad and could have been worse. Then I focused on keeping myself busy. There is a reason I can’t just sit around at home, and I definitely don’t watch t.v., there is nothing but boredom on there.

So I need to make sure that I develop some new habits that when I “feel” the munchies coming on, I get up and do something and the feeling actually goes away. Leave the kitchen, hit the yard (water flowers, pickup after pup), couldn’t exercise much more or my body will burn out so have to find other things to do.

Learning new behaviors……

 

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

 

S

Thursday Checkin

It has been an interesting week for sure.  I had to attend the funeral of my ex-Mother-in-Law yesterday to support my children and pay my respects to the family. This was husband #1 whom I do not like nor get along with – or at least used to not get along with. He did something in the past that I’ve never forgiven him for and if I was to say that I dislike someone (which is rare), he was it. So anyway, I have not been involved with that family in over 22 years and although I do not like my children’s father, I did like the Grandparents.  After all, they did come to my Mom’s funeral on September 11, 2001 (yes, that fateful day) and I really wanted to be there for my kids (I’m stronger than my daughter and she needed the shoulder). So… the irony of it all, yesterday was my Mother’s birthday. Talk about co-incidences…(they both were named Bette)… Freaked out yet??

So my food was OK yesterday but could have been better. I got up in the a.m. and did my CLX B2 and upped the weights another 5 lbs. I knew from the week before that I had to increase them and sometimes increasing 5lbs makes some exercises a lot more harder but I made through it. In fact today, my back and triceps are sore (which is what was worked yesterday). Then before the funeral I made sure I had a small snack, then the kids and I went for lunch after. My lunch choice probably could have been better, I had half a whole wheat clubhouse with a small salad. Should have turfed the bacon out of the sandwich to make it a bit better, but I didn’t.

Then we went shopping to the fitness store and I bought myself a set of Bowflex SelectTech weights. I have wanted them for some time and although they are expensive, I really think they are worth it. I have a small workout space in my home so having the weights all together like they are would saves me having 5, 8, 10, 15, 20 lb dumbbells strewn all over the floor. This keeps things nice and neat. And they go up in increments of 2.5lbs which may be a bit easier than jumping up a full 5 lbs because some of my muscles just aren’t strong enough to go from say 10 to 15 lbs (like my shoulders). Anyway, I’m looking forward to trying them out tomorrow.

When I got home, the BF said “let’s go for a beer”. I know – he is a bad influence on me - but again, I know I make the choices to either have a beer or not. And of course, I made the wrong choice but I did make a good choice of only having 2 and having 3 glasses of water with it. He ordered wings and I had a few but not that many because each bite I kept thinking – “this is 150 calories for each and every one of these teeny little pieces of fat and meat …  Not worth it”.

When we got home, we took the dog for a walk and the BF quit after the first mile so pup and I continued on for another 2 miles – 3 miles last night and I’m quite pleased with that. It was a great way to end the day.

Got up early today, left the house at 4:30 and came downtown to run outside with a friend. We ran 4:1x4 (not much) but that is what she wanted to do and I was cool with that. We are doing this together so we are improving together. Next week we will do the 5:1x4 – at least that is what I hope she will be good with. I do so like the running outside in the morning , it is so fresh and clean and hardly anyone around. Mind you, as this is downtown, the night creeps are still out at that time of the morning and you still need to be cautious. But by the time we actually start running, there are quite a few other active folks around. Only problem I have with this schedule is that I come back to the office then and sit for 8 hours, not good for my muscles after running… keep in mind I stretch after but it is the sitting still that gets me. I guess that is why I love going for walks along the same path during lunch – gets me out of the building and moving again. Oh and I’m wearing my pedometer so that I can keep track of how many steps I’m doing each day. It’s only 9 in the morning and I’ve already done 6500 steps. Not sure how accurate it is but I think with running that adds them up quickly.

I hope everyone else is having a fantastic week.

 

TTYL

S

 

Junk Food blues....

I read all these lovely blogs out there and sure wished I could write stuff as interesting as they do. I read my own blogs and I’m surprised anyone else reads them…  and I really appreciate those that do… Makes one feel like they aren’t alone and that someone out there relates to what is going on in your life. And some of them may have overcome the same roadblocks that I currently am experiencing and offer advice. I hope I don’t bore you all :)

 

So day one of my challenge – I’m at home not feeling well and I ate wrong. I hate being sick or at least not feeling 100% because my workout was not that good (had no energy) and I eat “junk”. I even caught myself last night thinking – if I eat this now, then it won’t be there tomorrow to tempt me. How lame is that?? But true none-the-less. I ate it, it’s gone, not buying anymore, no more temptation. If I don’t have the crap food in my house in the first place, then I won’t be tempted. Weekends are so hard to eat right… I cook my chicken, rice or Quinoa, veggies all day Sunday, measure and package them into nice neat little containers and throw them in the freezer. Come Monday morning, I grab one of each, some fruit or other snack, and head off to work. On the weekends, I open the fridge and wonder what to eat. I need to get more on hand proteins for at home to snack on – if I eat more protein, I don’t crave the carbs… simple as that. AND I need to remember to eat every three hours. I can do it at work, I’ve got the schedule perfect – 7, 10, 12:30 and 3:00, then home for dinner. Weekends are – get up at 7-8, exercise, eat a shake by 11:00, then am hungry by 1:00 because I exercise so much on the weekends, but I don’t eat right away because I’m busy doing something, so by the time I do eat, I’m starved (usually dinner) and I overeat. But calorie wise, I’m probably way down on my limit for the day but it’s the consistency of eating every three hours to keep my blood sugar regulated that I need to work on.

 

And that darn beer! I’d be skinny minny by now if I didn’t drink the stuff. Well I don’t exactly want to be skinny minny but you know what I mean. I drink one night a week (date night with BF), the if we go camping, it starts Friday night…. It’s what we do. I’ve groaned and moaned about this over and over again, I read my journals and that is my one thing I complain to myself about … If I stopped drinking beer, then I would be _________.   Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not an alcoholic. I may have been very close in one phase of my life (after my mother passed away and I was dealing with a husband  who drank heavily, 5 children, dogs, cats, llama’s, alpacas, chickens, and a full time job), but that is behind me now…. My new life is not so stressful or hectic. Now I drink because I enjoy it not because it makes things easier….

 

Anyway, this week may have started off slow but I’m going to go into it head first and get some good workouts in. Yesterday I did the CLX B1, and 20 minutes on my treadclimber. The treadclimber did not get my HR up but I really didn’t put too much effort into it. My HR was around 125 the entire time. That’s like walking fast for me lately. So speaking of my HR, since I started this learn to run program, my cardiovascular capacity has improved big time. It takes much more effort to get my HR up, this is a good thing. Well, OK, the running can still get it up pretty freakin high but it is not as bad as it used to be. I could easily sit in the high 170’s for the first month of my jogging, that’s pretty high for my age.

 

So on Saturday I did a personal best for jogging and did 5:90x6 (30 minutes of jogging) but I kept my pace slow enough to keep my HR under 160. My pace was pretty slow but my goal is to increase my endurance and then increase my speed. Figure I’ll work my way into this rather than killing myself off right off the bat. I’m going to do three more sessions like that this week. Plus two more Strength training workouts (CLX). (Jillian, I haven’t done the Burn the Fat or the Intervals yet – I still want to work the jogging into the cardio). Plus I will get in as much walking as I can. It is 1.8 miles from my home to the Train Station so I walk that almost every morning on my way to work, and if I can, I will walk at work for 30 minutes or so.  I do like walking in the spring/summer.

 

I hope everyone has a great week!

 

Challenges....

I've entered a couple of blog challenges (http://fabulousbyfall.blogspot.com/2009/05/join-challenge.html) (http://rundebrun.blogspot.com/2009/06/hope-floats.html) and I'm looking forward to it. Summer is the hardest time of the year for me because although I don't really overeat, I drink summer drinks - camping, patios, socials.... Totally slows me down. But maybe entering these challenges will keep me more on the straight and narrow.

I'm supposed to post a picture of my scale weight as of today

It's sad... so very very sad...

Not a bad week.....

I did not run yesterday morning, I  started out and after 3 minutes I was feeling so exhausted that I just walked for the next 32 minutes. I was so tired ALL Day long… so I went to bed early and got in my 7 hours of sleep. This waking up every day at 4:00 a.m. to exercise gets to you by the end of the week and I did not take any days off from exercising. Normally I take at least one day off during the week but since I want to get into the habit of working out M-F so that on the weekends when I go camping, if all I do is walk the dog or maybe do some jogging, then I won’t feel so bad.

I did a lot of walking this week and really enjoyed it. I wouldn’t say that any of it was really aerobic walking (no power walking here) but a brisk walk from home to the LRT or a walk at work. I’m not breathless and my HR stays around the fat burning zone so I think it is a really good compliment to my workout. I  succeeded in doing my 3 strength training sessions this week (and I am a bit sore in the muscles I need to gain strength in) and since this was my first week, I wrote all my weights down and know I need to increase them for next week. Good plan! And as I mentioned above, I missed one of my Learn to run sessions and only walked but that’s OK, at least I kept walking and didn’t just get off the treadmill completely.

Since it is raining this weekend and the weather is miserable we decided we were not going to go camping. This means that I will be at home and will likely workout pretty hard tomorrow. I will/need to take Sunday off completely – no exercising at all if I want to start this schedule all over again for Monday.

I did OK on my food but I certainly could have done much better. Summer and coolers on the deck are what are going to kill me ;) but I so enjoy the down time and the spring time and the family social that seems to be occurring.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

June 1st Already...

I don’t know about you but for me, life just seems to happen way to fast. I can’t believe it is already June 1^st.  Seems like the older I get, the faster time flies by. I’d like to know how to slow down the weekends and speed up the work days. I think it’s all about being busy….

 

I really was hoping that by this time I would be at my goal weight. Really, I should be. There is no excuse not to be. If I was actually being strict and eating as clean as I possibly could, I would be at my goal weight. It is 80/20 you know – and I’m probably only 50% good on the food. Weekends are the worse. I don’t eat enough and when I do, I eat the wrong things. AND I drink beer. I’ve got to make some decisions and stick to them.

 

I walk as much as I can. Helps that I don’t have a vehicle and need to take the bus to the train station and then off to work. I walk from home to the train station at least twice a week – it takes me about 30 minutes so depending on the time I leave the house, and what is going on at work, if I walk or not. Then at lunch at work, I try to walk at least 3 times a week for about 30 minutes – or at least that is what I’m about to start this week. I sent out a note to my entire floor stating “meet in the lobby at 11:30 for a lunch time walk” so guess since I started it, I should at least show up. Then I’m learning to run at least 3 times a week, sometimes indoors on the treadmill, at least twice outside (starting next week as my running partner isn’t around this week and I won’t run outside on my own… safety in numbers around here). And this week I’m starting the CLX strength training 3 x week.

 

But all that exercise won’t do my weight loss much good if I don’t eat properly. I need to feed it properly to support my workouts and to help me in losing these extra pounds. Besides as I lose weight, running will become easier as I’m not loading extra lbs on my feet.

 

So what am going to do about the food thing:

1.       Log all my food in my FitDay application

2.       Eat clean Sunday to Friday – saving Saturday for a “cheat” meal and only a meal, not the entire day!!!!!

3.       No alcohol during the week – date night – drink soda water with lemon….

 

Goals for the Month:

                Complete Burn phase of CLX – 3 x week.

                Run  7:1x3 by June 26^th

                Lose 5 lbs – (189 this morning – Yuck)

 

Goals for this week:

                Complete 3 ST

                Run/walk 3 x

                Walk dog 5 x (this one’s easy as she loves it as much as I do)

                Eat clean (this one is the challenge).

 

Be honest with myself and journal absolutely EVERYTHING that goes into my mouth and have a good hard look at the results at the end of the week. I need to wake up and smell the roses to get this weight off and I’m the only one that can do it.