Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Saturday 2/16

Howdy. Got my heaviest thermals on, out to the land to help hubs with finishing his workshop. First up: doors. He's building them out of 2x6 - they're going to be old-timey looking doors with vertical boards and horizontal 1x4 boards across them. We're even going to use black old-fashioned looking hardware. After they're stained, they should look awesome.

Today's weight: 137.2

Have a great Saturday.

169.3 - new personal low. Hoping to slowly ratchet down to 165 for the biking season.

0 degrees here when I headed out the door to a 2+ hour bike workout class at 7:30am.  

I signed up for the Minnesota Ironman 100 mile bike ride  which is the last weekend in April, so I have 10 weeks to prepare.  I'm starting work with the official coach of the event so I'll get some 1 on 1 analysis of my workouts, a personalized plan, and 3x/week class sessions.  Today was the second I've attended.

The interesting thing is I used to work out, but frankly dreaded it - it hurt, i was fat, it wasn't fun.  Something has flipped, and I realize that skinny people suffer through it too - but some enjoy challenging themselves and pushing to achieve something.

For me, having a goal in mind is key.  It pulls me forward.  So setting goal of riding 100 miles, publicly, is both a push and a pull toward the work and self-challenge I need.

Today was different.  It still hurt every bit as much - but I had a smile on my face for 2 hours.

Hanging in at 126.

122. facing a day of endless cleaning and picking up junk. we are slobs. oh well, cleaning counts as exercise.  diane

150.8 - me reacting to stress - I truly suck at stress.

I stress ate yesterday. Why the hell my cat being missing got to me that much I don't know. Snarky *****es aren't supposed to have feelings.

I looked online and found him in kitty jail. We went and bailed him out this morning. He is now bathed (yes, I'm one of those people) and hiding out in the basement. He was caught in a humane animal trap 1 block away. No collar because I stopped buying collars after he "lost" 8 of them. He was chipped, but for some reason it didn't work when they scanned him. It worked just fine when they scanned him this morning.

Got in to a tiff with my 14 yo boy, then sent my family on a weekend trip to the mountains this morning as well. I'm staying here to work and take care of the animals. I promised to critque someone else's work which means my own work will have to wait.

So, I'm sitting here trying to decompress, eating Green Chicken Soup and working to - just let go.

Hang on in there Slim......this too shall pass.

Down to .9 above goal.

Working at it. Each and every day.

111.6

100.4 lbs today.