Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Sunday!

Today was a great day! Why? Well I spent it with my family and we all had a good time.
We hung out this morning, then went to the gym, then went to church, then went to dinner (made healthy choices, of course) and then came home and played a board game. Good times!! Good times!!

I worked a bit less at the gym today because I'm pretty sore. My hamstrings have been barkin' all day. I only did 35 minutes on the "old fashioned" elliptical (Life Fitness brand) and 10 minutes of strength training. I did the Life Fitness machine because my daughter wanted to "be by me" when she was walking on the treadmill and that was the only machine anywhere near a treadmill. It was fun to chat while we were exercising together. Extra cool since we've done that two days in a row now. Today my middle DD and my DH came to the gym with us too. It was nice, even though we kind of spread out and did our own thing. At least we were all there.

I'm curious what the scale will reflect tomorrow. Will I have lost? Will I have stayed the same? Hmmmmmm....I don't know. I don't want to get discouraged if I haven't lost, so I'm trying to mentally prepare myself, just in case. I'd love to see a 2 pound loss, but I don't think I will see that. I slipped on the scale, I think it was Thursday night, for an "unofficial" progress check and it showed that I had actually gained 1/2 pound. UGH! That pissed me off so I jumped off right away and rationalized that it was night time and that I'd already had dinner, etc. when I weighed. (You know how that goes....). I'll just have to wait and see what Monday morning's weight and measurement routine brings. Even if it is a gain, although I hate the thought of that, I know that I have re-focused AND have been working hard to make the scale move in the right direction.

I'm enjoying a renewed confidence with my YOAD group too! Many of us have found new motivation to get "serious and committed". I love that! Heck, I love it just when we talk and share things. I tell you, I couldn't ask for a better support group and a better group of friends. These 10 folks are just the salt of the earth (I love you guys!!). :-)

On that happy note, I think I will get to bed. I'm tired and it's about that time. I haven't been sleeping well lately and have been only getting about 6 hours of sleep a night. I'm working on increasing that but I'm such a light sleeper, its ridiculous. Sometimes I wear ear plugs, so I can't hear DH banging around at 4:30 AM while he's getting ready for work, but sometimes that doesn't work anyway. Usually just about the time I finally get back to sleep, around 5:30 AM, the kids start waking up to get ready for school. (Not always, but sometimes). Sleep is definitely a precious commodity that I need to get more of though. I honestly have to start working on going to bed sooner. This 11, 12, 1 stuff has got to go. Ya know?

Ok, enough said. Time for some ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. ;-)
Hugs from AZ,
Shannon