Wow! Where have I been for the past month?!?! Actually I lost the access to my blog (I think I mentioned that I tend to lose things!) and so now I am trying to get updated. I have been looking for this access since a week ago Saturday (well, not really looking - but sort of:)) and I wish that I would have found it last Saturday. I meant to come home after our first outdoor ride of the season and tell you all about it. In fact, at one point on my ride I thought to myself "You can't give up now; you want to be able to write on the blog that you made it clear to the top!" And we did! My sweet hubby who encouraged me all the way (okay, maybe he even pushed me here and there!) and I rode to the top of the left hand fork of Hobble Creek canyon. It is 11 miles straight up and 11 fabulously fast and fun miles straight down! I was so happy because we went 7 miles farther than I made it on the first ride of the season last year.
That was the "UP" part of my post. I was feeling on top of the world last Monday. I had lost almost 10 pounds and I felt strong. So what happened?!?!? I am still wondering!
Last week started with guests for family home evening last Monday. I fixed a healthy spread of veggies and fruits and I packaged up the bags of "gold" from the leprechaun for them to take home with them. The problem was, there was extra "gold" wrapped chocolates left over and little by little I ate them.
Then I made cookies and frosted them for St. Patrick's Day. Only I didn't end up giving all of those away either. And yes, you can guess what happened to the extra.
On St. Patrick's Day I made green lunch for my daughter and her friends including pesto chicken Alfredo fettuccini. It doesn't get much more fattening than that!!! And you guessed it, there were leftovers.
So, this is the "DOWN" part of the post, except everything went down but the scale!!!
The only thing I can think of to do is just to go on from here. I do think I learned some things about myself through all of this. I'm not sure that I will ever have everything all figured out and every day is a challenge. But I'd rather try to overcome than have consecutive weeks of BEING overcome by my overeating!
So, onward and upward!
