Summertime and the livin' is easy...

15 down 45 more to go! I’m beginning to learn the importance of goals. Goals keep you on track, give you success markers and eventually give you something to celebrate once you reach those goals. I know it sounds like a HUGE number, but my goal is 60lbs by the end of the year and it feels very like a very daunting task. But when you break that number down, it’s not so bad. For instance: I’m already ¼ of the way to my December goal; it only took me 7 weeks to complete ¼ of my goal so if I keep it up, I should be able to complete the other ¾ in 21 weeks… that puts me at mid October ! Likewise, I look at this summer and staying on goal, there are 15 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day, if I keep up dropping 2lbs a week I will lose 30 lbs just over the summer – Pretty crazy when you think about it that way.

The past few weeks have been difficult when it comes to writing down my meals. I’ve been keeping a mental tally, but it really isn’t the same. I use the same excuse as to why I haven’t been updating my blog so often, but the reality is that it’s just an excuse. I do want you all to have a little insight into my work day and maybe you’ll understand. I only sit at my desk for about 1 – 2 hours total a day (if I’m lucky) and it’s usually broken into 15 – 20 minute blocks. I need to utilize that time to take care of any computer work that I have while I can. I know that I can then come home and blog, but I was talking to Sandi a week or so ago and she was telling me that she tries her darndest to stay as busy as she can after work so she’s not just sitting on her behind, and so I’ve tried to adapt that lifestyle. I’ve been walking, having dinner, or shopping (although not really spending money) so that I’m not home and eating.

Tiff and I always talk about adapting the “Active Lifestyle” which includes a lot of what I’ve been doing lately, such as going and whacking golf balls with Greg, walking a lot, “shopping”, and finding other activities. Mom is coming to town this Thursday and on Saturday afternoon we are going to do Salsa lessons. How fun does that sound?!?!?

I went walking yesterday morning with Tiff and I learned a valuable lesson... we met up around 10am at the park and began our walk. We were yakking and yakking away and just kept going around and around in a circle for an hour and a half. Well, before I left the house I washed my face and put on my lotion, but didn't even think about sun screen - OUCH! I went over to her place after to hang out at the pool and and lubed up with about an inch of SPF40 before being in the sun, but it was too late. You can see the burn marks around where my tank-top was for our walk and it's burning pretty bad. We usually don't walk for more than an hour at most and I didn't even think that I would get burnt, but here I am. Lesson Learned. I do have to admit that it's nice sitting by the pool and relaxing after an hour and a half walk. Ahhhhh... Summer!

Good news is that I’ve been getting a lot of comments lately; people that I’ve only worked with for 3 weeks have started to ask if I’m losing weight and I’m actually beginning to see and feel the results. It’s a great feeling getting compliments and encouragement from those who don’t really know you and there are a few people that I work with that look forward to Friday mornings and finding out how my weigh-in went the night before. It’s nice to be held accountable from so many people.