TGIF! And Happy June 1st!

I got up early this morning and brought Bayou to doggie daycare. David took the day off today so when I got home from dropping Bayou off and David was still in bed, I took my morning medicine and went back to bed. I slept until 11am! I must have needed the sleep. I woke up feeling refreshed and NOT out of breath. I took my shower and now I'm relaxing. I had my usual bowl of cereal for "breakfast" (which really was at lunch time). I won't pick up Bayou until at least 3pm so I have a couple of hours to do whatever I want to do. It's warm out today and overcast. I don't know if we're supposed to get any rain or not. I would be nice to have a little rain today. I love the sound of the rain. Hopefully it won't get windy because I'm still worried about our tree in the front yard. The tree guy is supposed to come by sometime and check it out and then email me to let me know if it can be saved or if it has to come down. Either way, it won't be cheap. I'm not looking forward to that estimate.

So far I think I'm doing okay with only going to 1 WW meeting a week. I weighed myself this morning and I was at 279.6. That made me happy. I'm doing my best this week to get all my GHG's in and to make healthier choices. I do have some cookies in the house but I'm limiting myself to 3 a day (1 serving which is 4 PP values). So far, so good. I know I can always go to a WW meeting if I need to but I'm doing okay with just the Wednesday night meeting. I'm really looking forward to going next week. I hope I can stay in the 270's. It's so easy to bounce around when I'm on the edge of a decade. I know I'll soon be at the 20 lb lost mark. I'm excited about that. It can't come soon enough. Which reminds me. I put a bid in on some WW charms on eBay. They have all the charms. I hope I win the auction. I only bid 99 cents so far but will go as high as $20 to get them. They are all new and in the packs. I think the only charm they give out for weight at our location is for 100 lbs. I want them all though - 25, 50 & 75. I think that having them will motivate me to get to the goals so I can add the charms. If I don't get them, I'll just have to settle for the 5lb stickers unless I can get the individual charms on eBay.

One of our WW leaders, Pat, told us that our location is moving across the street this summer. I haven't heard anyone else talk about it though. She seems to know about what's going on and share it with everyone in her meetings. I do kind of miss going to her meeting so I'm considering going but not checking in. I'll just make my own name tag if I do that. I hope that the new space is bigger and nicer than the one we have now. The Wednesday night meeting is pretty full each week and we could use some room to move around. I'm happy where we are for now. I don't know what the parking will be like across the street since there are lots of open stores there. No matter, I can always use the exercise if I have to park away from the door.

I really want to work this week at losing the 1.2 pounds I need to lose to get to 20 lbs lost. I'll have to be extra careful this weekend. Weekends are usually more difficult for me although last weekend, the holiday weekend, wasn't difficult at all. So we'll just see how it goes. I'm not really craving sweets since I have the cookies and Werther's candies to eat. It keeps me from craving the high PP value foods like glazed donuts, cake and ice cream. The Werther's candies are only 2 PP values for 3 candies and the cookies are 4 PP values for 3 cookies. As long as I can have something sweet I can do this. Eating fruit helps too. It's nice to know I can grab a piece of fruit for a 0 PP value.

It's hard to believe it's June 1st. I start my summer goals today. I have a lot to work toward but I think that will motivate me to stay on plan. My goals for the summer are to:

* lose 8 - 10 lbs per month (June - August)

* exercise in the pool

* hike/walk at Palmer Park

* eat more healthy foods

* meet my GHG's every day

* try at least one new meal each week

* attend at least one WW meeting each week and weigh in

* get my next 16 weeks charm (32 weeks total)

* get my 25 lb and my 50 lb WW bling (even if I have to buy it myself; I don't know if they have the rings or just give stickers; I want the rings)

* get my 10% star

It's ambitious but I want to have something to work toward. I believe they are attainable and not unrealistic. I just have to want to work at meeting these goals.

That reminds me that I need to find those swim shorts. I'm sure they are up on the shelf in the closet. I just have to dig them out. I need to find out what the pool hours are too. I think the pool opens at 10am but I'm not sure. It's warm enough out at 10am that I could go over and swim or just walk in the pool. Any activity will be good. My breathing is better today but I'm not going to walk until I see the allergy doctor on Tuesday (at least I don't think I will). I hope I can get something longer acting than the 4 hour OTC medicine I'm taking now. I'd like something that will last through the day but not make me drowsy. I don't think I'll go as far as getting allergy shots though. I don't want to do that. I'll just see what she has to say on Tuesday. I'll find out the pool  hours when I go over to drop off the lease payment. I'll do that this afternoon.

I think that's it for now. I can't think of anything else to blog about. I'm sure I'll think of something later.