Failure Number One
My eating! As aforementioned on this site, I had my mother’s filled cookies that she makes one time a year...especially for my birthday. (She calls them a labor of love because they are fine intensive). I ate a LOT of cookies! It’s a once a year thing....but I still ate a lot of cookies! Otherwise I didn’t eat too poorly...but did I mention I ate cookies...2-3 for breakfast...with a banana. 2-3 For lunch....with my regular lunch. One or two as a snack when I got home from work. Oh and I ate 4-5 each night after my normal dinner. Maybe a dozen cookies a day. That’s a lot of cookies (they are gone. I got them on Monday afternoon and by Wednesday night they were mostly gone...I had two on Thursday to end this years cookie fest). I ate so many cookies that on Thursday morning I was feeling icky and stuffed and just not well. Don’t worry...I still finished up those two cookies that were left! And since there was no sweets left...I STUPIDLY made brownies. I was stuffed and feeling icky while I was eating dinner...yet I continued to shovel the food into my mouth...and I of course couldn’t pass on the brownies!!! Why??? So here I am on Friday morning super early, once again feeling icky...stuffed and half sick! I swore after New Year’s Day when I ate so much I was physically sick, that I wasn’t doing this again....yet here I am??
As a side note. I finally got the recipe for the cookies this year...which could be a bad thing...because if I can make them then I have the chance for the deliciousness all the time. BUT I am looking at it this way. If I make them...and know I can make them myself....it will take away the utter frenzy of eating them when I get them. Mom’s will always taste sweeter and better...but I won’t be as crazed. That’s my theory anyway...and I don’t plan on making them anytime soon!!!!
Failure Number Two
Exercise. I was doing so good with waking up early to exercise for almost two months. Last week my schedule changed. I go in a half hour earlier......I just can’t force myself to wake up even earlier...5 to 5:30 is early enough in my book! I do make it home a half hour earlier now. I swore that I would start running again during that half hour. It just has not happened! It’s hard when Jason is already home to kiss him hello, change my clothes and walk back out the door...even when I know it is only for a half hour! When he isn’t home yet, it is too tempting to start making dinner, cold the laundry, etc. so I have been a colossal failure in the exercise front! Next week maybe I’ll nail this on!!!
And yes...I laid out my running clothes early this week...ready to hop into them after work. I figured have them out and ready and it would make it easier to switch gears and get out there! Well, the whole week had passed and they are still laying on the trunk nice and clean and ready for use.
Another failure!! Big time!!!
Failure Number Three
Everything...this change in hours while seemingly small is really throwing me for a loop. I’m tired (ok maybe that’s also because I’m in training at work..). I’m sluggish. I’m not getting things done. I feel like I’m falling behind (blog reading...blog writing for example). Grrrrr
Failure Number Four
My weight. It’s up. It’s also the monthly ick, it has arrived...and my weight usually goes up when that happens. But I can’t honestly blame it all on the monthly ick. Seriously...lots of cookies. (That I did share with Jason!). My weight as of yesterday is back to my high of this year. I lost weight steadily from May to September...and I have slowly regained that weight back. Grrrr! Well....almost...maybe a pound lower. But still!!!!!!! I did it to myself, but it is still super frustrating!!!
So lots of failures to report this week! I’m ashamed to write this post. But it’s how this journey is. I just lost a battle in the war.. But I haven’t waved the white flag of surrender just yet for the war itself. I retreated and I’m immediately going back on the attack. The next battle is upcoming!!! Part of a war is losing some battles and winning others. Most wars are not won without some losses. But to win the war we must pick ourselves up, reevaluate and head into the next battle stronger and smarter. That is just what I am doing. I know where some of my mistakes happened. (Eg Not packing a lunch yesterday because I felt icky...then eating junk food at work because I got hungry...and snacks at home because I was still hungry) I can correct those mistakes and move on stronger and smarter...and I will win the next battle!!! I’m determined!!
I leave you with my work in progress.....the living room of my one dollhouse.
