Good Morning

I woke up feeling like I'm getting a cold. I'm coughing, sneezing and congested. I sure hope not. Maybe it's just allergies. I'm still thinking of going walking this morning. I'm not sure if I'll take Bayou or not. That would make the exercise high exertion and I don't know that I'm ready for that yet.

I did some research last night on Curves and the YMCA. I don't know that Curves is what I need right now. Circuit work might be something I can do later on after I've lost some weight. The YMCA on the other hand sounds great. The one I'm looking at in Garden Ranch has a walking track and a pool of course. They also have a sliding scale for membership dues. I think I'll go over there today and see what my cost would be. It might be worth spending the extra money to get a pool and a walking track. This club is up at Academy and Montebello. That's not too far from here and better than Briargate. I'll still go to that appointment on Thursday since I made it but I'm checking out all of my options at this point. There's no contract with the Y and there is also a 30 day money back guarantee. That way I could try it out and if it's not for me no harm no foul. 

I don't think I'll have any breakfast until after I go walk this morning. Yesterday, right when I got to the Mesa I had to go to the bathroom. I walked the whole time needing to go. I won't do that again. It was very uncomfortable. All I've have this morning is my allergy meds and a couple of ibuprofen to ward off pain from inflammation. And I'll take it with water not juice.

I don't think I'll buy any more WW bars or stuff unless I sample it first and like it a lot. I do like the Cinnamon Crumble bar but I got a tummy ache after eating it yesterday. That could purely be a coincidence but I don't want to take a chance on having a rumbly tumbly. Plus, regular food is just easier to deal with and cheaper. The only snack I know I would buy from the store that WW makes is the little lemon cakes. Now those are good but I don't know how many points they are. And I haven't seen them at the store for a while.

Yesterday I realized that I'm very attached to the WW site and eTools. When the site was down I was antsy. I wanted to be able to blog and to update my tracker. I tried doing it with the book but that took far too long for me. I could do it in a pinch, like I had to yesterday but using the tracker is much more convenient. If you're not using eTools and the online tracker, give it a try. It looks complicated but it's really much easier than trying to find things in the book and then hand tracking. I know some people don't mind doing that and that's fine. Just remember to track everything that goes in your mouth. 

One of the tools that I haven't used yet is the hunger tool. I'm going to check it out today and see if it's something that could be helpful to me. I think it might help to know when I"m eating because I'm hungry and when I'm eating because I'm bored or anxious. I feel a little hungry now but can wait until after my walk to eat. 

My older sister left me a message on facebook and said that she is doing WW online. My younger sister said she's going to check into joining WW again. I hope she does. It would be fun to do the plan along with her. She read my blog and said it was helpful to her. I'm glad that it's helping motivate, support or encourage people on their weight loss journey.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, Wednesday, so I can share my success with the folks in the meeting. I'm just so thrilled to know that I'm losing weight. Walking will help with that. Making some healthier choices will help with that too. I'm not going to swap my activity points and I'm trying not to use all 49 allowance points for the week. I want to use just my 43 daily points whenever I can.

It's only after 5am. I should go back to bed for a while. Maybe I'll be able to get Bayou to go in there with me. More later.