I had another good week, although I wasn’t as strict as I could have been with food. I’m still very happy with how I did, and I exercised everyday except yesterday.

My weight has been fluctuating like crazy. Today, I’m back up at 229.4. Yesterday I was 227.something. I keep adding and dropping about 2 pounds. It’s ok. My friend Ros came over on Thursday to talk and ra-ra about health, and she said that when the body first starts to break down and lose fat, it replaces it with water initially while things start changing, then finally lets it go. She said you should only weigh yourself at the beginning of the first month, and not again until the end of it.

Interesting.

I’m weighing myself anyway, because I’m so wildly curious every morning, but I’m not going to get upset for another couple of weeks if things continue to hover. This was week three for me.

Next week will be interesting. I don’t know how I’m going to exercise on Thursday, Friday and Saturday since I’ll be spending the entire day and evening at the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat (so excited, so excited), where I won’t be able to make my shakes for lunch, either. So I’ll be amazed if I’m not even heavier next week. I’m here for the long haul, though, so one mis-spent half-week isn’t going to kill me.

How are you doing?

Good morning! I had a great week. I exercised and ate well every day, alternating aerobic and resistance training, and eating my homemade shakes. I feel good. I’ve lost 2.8 pounds. Yay!

I’m taking it easy on the treadmill and walks, keeping to 35 minutes and not full speed, because I don’t want my knee and hip to start hurting again. Hopefully I can lose a little bit of weight this way, and push myself harder when I’m lighter on my joints. I’ve also downed the pounds, upped my reps, and closed my range of motion on weights because my shoulder started hurting last year, and I don’t want that to come back, either.

It’s been easy this week. I haven’t had any cravings, possibly because the shakes are so sweet. Do you think that a body’s craving for sweets is a misunderstood craving for fruit? I seriously can’t believe I’m not craving anything, and the only logical reason I can come up with is that two of my three meals a day are fruit.

Also this week, I’ve started this again.

Ahh, wheatgrass juice. It’s so weird.

How was your week?

Great week! I have a chart I’m keeping that gets a star if I have my homemade shakes for breakfast and lunch, snack well, and exercise. If I exercise early enough, I can get a star for the day before noon! I have a star on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. One of those days I had two fried eggs instead of a shake for breakfast, but I was still happy with that.

I’ve also been drinking a lot of water, which is another goal of mine. And I’ve started growing my wheatgrass again!

The first tray should be ready in a few days, and my blood is going to need the cleansing when my cells start dumping junk.

For some reason, it hasn’t been hard this week. I don’t know why, since I’m doing what I’ve been trying to do since the beginning of summer last year, and haven’t seemed to manage yet but right now, it’s not hard. I’m really excited about finally having a little bit of momentum.

We bought a scale last night, so I’ve finally updated the Health Group information in the sidebar. It was difficult giving up the stats from my all time high, which I’ve been clinging to to make me feel good, even though there hasn’t been any progress in the last couple of years. It was a leap of faith to start at 0 again.

How are you doing? Anyone else starting the year off well?

I don’t remember. Health Group has been a bit dodgy lately. BUT, this is the first time in a looooooong time it’s been posted on a Saturday, like it’s supposed to be, so maybe that’s a sign? I sure hope so.

I’m trying. Thursday started out fantastic, and around 3:30 in the afternoon, went downhill. Yesterday was high calorie, my only consolation being that they weren’t empty calories.

Today is off to a good start, and I’m praying like mad that I can successfully complete ONE good day, something which hasn’t been within my grasp, despite efforts. And I know how lame that sounds, but I’ve been trying, and failing, a lot.

We’re approaching the very popular time of year for health goals. Do you have any? How do you plan to keep them? Talk to me about it. My goals haven’t changed, I’m just hoping to start meeting them.

Until I’m getting a respectable amount of sleep, I’m not going to exercise. This week was a bust.

I have a question about electric blankets. We’ve never had one. I’ve never slept with one, and I know nothing about them. But I bought one on Overstock.com for Nate for our anniversary.

(13 years, woo-hoo! Lucky 13)!

He doesn’t like being cold, and complains about getting into a cold bed most every night of autumn, winter, and spring, so I thought a nice electric blanket would be a neat gift. As we were putting it on the bed and reading the instructions, it said that the electric blanket needs to be on top of all bedding, and can’t be put under anything.

What?

I don’t get it. How does that work then, exactly? My question is this-

Is that something ridiculous they say to avoid any potential for a lawsuit, or is it legit? How do people use electric blankets? My intent was to put it between the comforter and the sheets to get things nice and toasty. Is that not the way they’re used?

I also have new flatware (really cool from Costco) that says not to leave food or moisture on them for any length of time, because they might discolor.

What?

It’s a fork. What am I supposed to do with it? I’ve been treating them like any other silverware we’ve owned and they look just fine. It seems that there is frequently some insane care or usage instructions that come with many things we buy; however sometimes, like I said, it’s legit. I don’t want to burn my house down if that’s truly an issue.

Will someone shed some light on this for me? Because I’m really quite annoyed at the prospect of either warming the outside of our comforter, or sleeping without a comforter entirely in the midst of winter for the opportunity to use our electric blanket. Both of those situations sound silly, and as I see it, can’t possibly be the way things should be.

I had a couple good days, and one great day last week. And I did weights and physical therapy once. So far today I’m eating well, and I’ll try to sneak in some physical therapy and weights tonight when Nate will be able to hold Clark.

Clark won’t sleep or nap unless he is latched at the breast and suckling. If I take him off, he wakes up. If I lay him in his crib, he screams and cries, no matter how long he’s in there.

I did pretty well this week. I did physical therapy and weights twice, and 35 minutes on the treadmill once. I ate well Tuesday through Saturday, not so well last Monday evening, or yesterday. My milk is drying up again, so I think I’ve been slacking on the water and Fenugreek. Gotta fix that.

You’re probably not going to hear much from me this week. I’m up to my eyeballs in Thanksgiving preparations. We’re cooking two turkeys, so I’m thinking about doing the traditional stuffing in one and a cornbread stuffing in another. Anyone have any good recipes?

A friend of ours made a turkey recently where she slid bacon under the skin and covered the top of the turkey with bacon. The turkey didn’t taste like bacon, but it was juicy and flavorful. I’m going to try it.

I took some great pictures of Clark last week.

My table came back from the refinishers on Friday, for about 15 minutes, and went back again. They messed up. I was disappointed because we were having a huge to-do at our house this weekend, and I wanted our table, but in the end, I’m glad the table wasn’t here. It was a send-off party for some friends that are moving to Georgia, and we had about 50 people in our house. Many of them were little kids. The adults ate in the living room, and all the kids ate at the table. (Two plastic folding tables pushed together). They spilled more punch than they actually consumed. Part way into the evening, I just set the roll of paper towels on the table and left it there. It was the kind of chaos you would expect from many, many little kids with casual and distracted supervision. And I didn’t have to worry about my newly refinished and ill-destined table.

It was a good thing.

Health Group- what do you have? I’m slipping off the no sugar wagon. I must be really weak. I’ve been able to do it in the past, but for some reason, this year is really hard for me. I’m starting again today, and I’m going to get some physical therapy exercises in as well.

I had a relatively good week. I made it through Halloween eating no sugar, and it wasn’t difficult. In fact, the only sugar I ate was in the evening on Nate’s birthday, and then some on Saturday and Sunday. But those days were pre-selected for eating whatever, and now I’m off of it until Thanksgiving.

This week, I hope to get some exercise in. The problem is, my spinning wheel has been calling to me, so I hauled it upstairs and have been playing around on it. (Wanna see something pretty?. Ooooooh, ahhhhh). That in combination with the stockings I need to make, and the leg warmers I want to make, plus the fingerless gloves promised to Olivia, and possibly some more for Mary with the hypothermic fingers…..

There isn’t a lot of extra time floating around here. But I’m thinking about how to fit it all in. And today I’m back to laundry.

How was your week? Is anyone going off of sugar with me?