Surprise

It's so surprising how quickly things change. If I am eating well and have a day "off" then I immediately feel like shit and seem to "give up" on health. Thankfully though, the opposite is true as well. I have been back on track all week. I can honestly say that I have counted every calorie I have consumed since Monday morning. I am so happy and feeling completely better (well, minus being exhausted. I just can't seem to adjust to 5am wake up calls.). Interestingly enough this is the week I went back to Hal Higdon's training schedule. It is so nice to have such sort runs right now. Even though they are totally kicking my ass. It is at least keeping me moving through the start of the cold months. Today I did 1.5 miles on the treadmill. I did have to walk once, but that is still improvement for me.

I still feel like I need to recap from the weekend so hopefully this will be the last 'all over the place' entry; at least for a little bit. So this weekend we had 5 of our favorite friends come to visit us. We had a race to run together. I know, how could I not have shared that I was training for a race? Well, this was a .1k. Yes, you read that correctly, a point one k. It was amazing! It was a fun run/beer run. It was being sponsored by some of the bars downtown and they had a block closed off for the run and then drink specials at the bars after we ran. It was definitely fun and I would probably do it again, but I definitely drank way to much. We were lucky enough to have Nate's sister in law spend pretty much all of Saturday with little lady. It felt really good to spend a day being carefree. However, it did take me until Tuesday to feel recovered.

Another recent surprise happened on Tuesday morning. Little lady and I were headed off for the day. I backed out of the garage and noticed a huge wild turkey next to the driveway. I thought it was insane and quickly ran back inside to grab a camera. I walked across the driveway to find out where that thing went and as I passed the garage something behind it caught the corner of my eye.

suburban turkeys

There was about 15 turkeys in my yard! I thought it was hilarious and shocking. I was walking towards them to try to get a better picture and spooked them. They started flying over the fence into the neighbor's yard. I sort of paniced for a minute, not sure if I should take a picture of them flying or video. In my panicked hesitation I snapped of pic of the last one over the fence.

Also, tomorrow is weigh in day, but this is the final week of my competition that I joined. It officially ends on Sunday so I will probably just use that as my weight. I will post a current weight by Monday. (We have another set of friends coming to town this weekend so I may be busy.) I have actually been not focusing on the scale. I haven't weighed myself since last Friday. I know I didn't help the weight loss with all the drinking I did over the weekend, but I am hoping the week helped me out. If not, I actually feel ok about that. It is feeling good to just focus on living healthy and not stepping on the scale every time I see it.

Trick or treat

We survived Halloween! I even did fairly well with my eating. I ate well throughout the day and had a light but filling dinner before heading out. Since we live on a main road and people don't trick or treat on it, the neighbors behind us invited us over to pass out candy with them. (They live on a court in a subdivision.) They told us they would have food, drinks, and jello shots. We decided that instead of just cutting through the yard to them we would trick or treat with little lady down the street to their house. It worked out perfectly. We stopped at about ten houses and then arrived at our neighbors to pass out candy.

The first house little lady went to! She was so cute. (Also, I love the neighbors in the background.)

I had brought two bags of candy to pass out and was hoping we wouldn't have to bring any home (which we did not, other than what little lady collected- another reason that ten houses were enough). The neighbors had chili, soup, pigs in a blanket, snacks and jello shots. I had a few jello shots and then stuck to the wine that I brought. I don't drink wine super fast so it seemed safe for me. I did eat about ten pieces of candy corn and 2 little pretzels. I felt good about that. I did not touch the delicious chocolate candy because one piece always leads to more. I felt successful at Halloween. I also have not touched little lady's candy. I am hoping the hubby will eat it up otherwise I will throw it out. (I would donate, but there really isn't that much there.)

I am feeling a bit more in control again and am thankful for that. I really think focusing on my lunch has helped me. Tomorrow I will weigh in. I am nervous and excited. I actually have not been on the scale since Friday. Wow! That is a record for me. I am actually just hoping for a maintain since I was off track as many days as I was on track. I think I would like to try to just step on the scale once a week. I feel obsessive and it really affects my mood. I usually end up eating more though because I know I won't have to face the numbers. It if could keep my eating in check and just weigh in on weigh in day though, I think it would be more exciting for me. Perhaps this will be my week.