Fadedwords

I’m glad it’s Friday.  The weeks do seem to drag on sometimes, and this week was another one.  It was a good week, for the most part even though I was looking forward to today.

The little girl I do homebound service with, L, had a better week this week.  Monday was a rough day, as she had to go to the hospital.  The rest of the week was very good; she was very much her usual self.  It was really good to see her in such high spirits, especially after seeing her have such a difficult week.  I ate dinner at their house on Tuesday, and ended up babysitting for a little while so her parents could go out and arrange a surprise for her.  Yesterday we couldn’t do any school work, because unforutnately L’s white blood cells were incredibly low and she was neutropenic.  These things (amongst others) led to her being way too tired.  I did stay for about an hour and a half.  Her mom had to take her grandmother home, so we played with barbies and just had a nice time.  There is a fundraiser for her on Sunday afternoon, and I’m looking forward to going.  I’ve been working with her for over a month now, and I cannot begin to explain how blessed I feel that I’m part of this.  It breaks my heart to see what her and her family go through, but more often than not I am amazed and awestruck at the beauty I’m shown.

After playing email tag, Joy and I got riding figured out.  I am riding tomorrow at 2pm with Mattie.  I will be in Mattie’s lesson group, which I’m kind of bummed about.  I had really hoped to ride with Deb, who I did my lessons with when I first started up riding.  I really got along with her well.  I’m keeping an open mind though; I’ve had very positive experiences with everyone I met at this facility.  I’m looking forward to being in the saddle again, more than I can say.  Joy did say in her last email that it would be good if I could jump with Mattie once or twice before group begins on the 20th… so I’m pretty nervous about that.  Yes, I’ve jumped hundreds of times before… but I have not done that in well over two years.  We’ll see how it goes.  I’m just excited to be back near horses and on a horse, and I’m hoping for another positive experience.  My friend Steve said he might come tomorrow, so it’s possible there will be pictures.  We’ll see.

I went to a conference today in Raleigh about bringing out the best in students.  I truly enjoyed it; there was a lot of information that I found valuable.  Quite a few people from my county went, including my former principal.  It was quite interesting to see her, and I admit that I had a nice conversation with her.

I have worked out hard this week, starting The F*irm dvd set that I bought many months ago.  I’ve pushed myself hard this week and I really hope it pays off.  Tomorrow is weigh in, and I’m nervous/anxious as I always am.  I would love to be down another 1.6… that will give me my 10%.  So we’ll see about that too.

Aaaaand… Jake just called me :)  I wasn’t expecting to hear from him, other than his nifty tracker thingy, until he pulled up in the driveway next Friday.  He’s having fun and says there are tons of pictures.  He and Brian are camping in Alabama right now, and will go back to Mississippi on Monday.  He said he’s thinking of heading back up this way early, so we’ll see on that.   It was incredibly good to hear his voice.

For now I’m off to hop in the shower, so I can try to be in prime shape for the lesson tomorrow.  Wish me luck.

I fully expected this would be a gaining week.  I was wrong.  I lost 3 pounds.

This brings my total loss to 17.2 pounds.  I’m 2.8 pounds away from reaching my 20 pound loss.  I’m 6 pounds away from hitting my 10% goal.  I’m 10 pounds from getting to the weight I can ride at.

I’m so proud and so motivated and so excited.

More excitement is that my friend Dana went to the meeting with me today, so it will be good to have a friend working with me.

It’s a great week.  For all kinds of reasons.  I’m feeling fantastic.

Even though I wrote about it on Shrinking Me, I thought I’d mention it here too… I mean, the last two posts have been pretty down in the dumps.  It’s time for a little bit of positive here at Fadedwords.

WW today went much better than expected.  I lost 4.2lbs!!  This brings my total to 12.2lbs lost… which is half of my 10% goal.  I really needed a loss like this today; it’s helped put me in a better mood regarding everything.

So yeah.  4+ more down… next goal is 5 more.

I was somewhat apprehensive about going to my meeting this week.  It was a new group, and I knew I wouldn’t know anyone there.  I was also worried that I might have gained now that I’m back home.

As it turned out, the meeting group was really fantastic.  The leader is very up beat and immediately puts you at ease and gets you excited about WW.  The other members were incredibly nice too.  It was just a nice atmosphere.

My worry about gaining?  Also silly.  I lost…………..

4.2lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!

That brings my total to 6.2lbs.  I got my first 5lb sticker today and everyone celebrated my success.  It was a very good week.

Today was my first weigh-in at WW.  I was pretty disappointed, because the scale only showed 1lb loss.  I know that I should focus on the success of that, but I was really hoping to see more of an accomplishment.  I’ve worked really hard this week.  I also know that I need to take into account a certain monthly visitor that’s going on right now.  *sigh*  I’m just bummed that I didn’t see more of a positive change.  Another thing I should be focusing on is that my shirts are definitely fitting better.  I showed my  parents pictures of myself wearing a shirt that I was wearing the other day and even they could see the difference.  So there’s a lot of better things to focus on… today it just seemed like the scale stabbed me in the back.

I’m visiting Monica tonight.  I got here at about 5ish, just as Mon was finishing up with her day at the Challenge Course.  I waited while she showered, and then we went out for our traditional visit to Friendly*’s.  I’m pretty proud of how I did tonight.  I got a salad to start with, and did the dressing on the side.  I picked out all the bread crumbs too.  Then for dinner I got a chicken quesadilla… which I know isn’t the best dinner, but it was much better than the cheeseburger I wanted.  I didn’t eat more than 5 forks of the rice that came with it.  Also, the quesadilla came as two medium sized ‘dillas.  I only ate one and brought the other  home.  I did allow myself a diet Coke, but according to my book those are zero points.  For desert? I got a scoop of sugar free vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. Their idea of “scoop” is a big dish full of ice cream, so I only ate  about a quarter of it.  Monica told me how impressed she was with that.  I had saved 20 points for dinner, and I think that I stayed within that… if I went over  it wasn’t by  too much. 

It’ll be a brief trip to this part of the state.  I’ll go home tomorrow.  I had planned to meet up with my friend Valerie, but that’s not going to work out.  I’m pretty bummed about that too, as I was really looking forward to seeing her.  I haven’t since I moved to NC two years ago.

In any case… I’m monopolizing Monica’s computer so I’ll leave this as it is.