A new look

I decided I wanted a different look for my blog. I liked the old one, but it was better suited to a more personal blog, and I plan to use the template to make one. For this blog however, I wanted something to reflect how I feel about my weight loss efforts. The background I chose is actually called "Motion", which I thought to be an interesting coincidence.

I had a good day, I woke up early, relaxed and caught up on things on the comp, had a great breakfast, did dishes, laundry and then exercised. I'm just doing my weekly Sunday evening routine now before I make supper and retire for the night. My workout was very good, I was able to notice that I am getting stronger, or at least that it is still getting easier to complete. I've not had a sore arse since that time the week before, but I'm still trusting that what I'm doing is having its effects and I'm just continuing on with it. F visited yesterday, we had a staff meeting in the morning and she gave me a ride home then hung out here till she had to work later in the afternoon. There was coffee and doughnuts as usual at the meeting, and as always I wanted to eat yummy doughnuts, and as always I resisted. Even when a coworker tried to convince me to have some, meaning well. F's visit was satisfying on various levels. First of all, the fact that I've been keeping up with my housework meant that it wasn't a problem to have a visitor on no notice. I also made my usual breakfast and ate it without feeling self conscious. I thought she would say that it was rather a lot of food for a sitting, but she argued that she didn't think it was, really. We had a wonderful long chat about this and that, and as always she was always avidly interested in my weight loss and hearing all about the nit pickies and anything noteworthy, and anything not, at that. She has always been so supportive of my efforts, albeit protective and cautious at times, but it's only because she cares and worries sometimes that I might go overboard with things. She said that seeing me at home in my own clothes makes her really realise that my body is now "permanently fundamently different", to use her words. I didn't get her at first, but she finally made me understand that since she usually sees me at work in my uniform, it is harder to see how a person is changing when you see them in their uniform, because the non-changing clothes can mask the changes that are actually there. I'd never thought of it before, but it made a lot of sense to me once I understood what she meant. We also chatted about other things, and for once I was in an open mood, and it was lovely to spend some quality time, we don't get to do that very often any more. We'll have to make more of a point, now that she will be moving. We talked for a bit on the phone this evening, but I was in the middle of exercising so I didn't talk long. She asked me out to our fav restuarant in the city, and I was sorely tempted because the food is so delicious, but I needed to finish exercising, and I don't have any money to eat out anyway, so it wasn't as hard to say no as it might have been. But from then on I was distracted by wanting food from the Mongolian Grill. Which reminds me, yesterday I had the most powerful craving for cheese...real cheese. I came damn close to buying some when I went to the grocery, but I knew that it is costly, pointswise, and I wanted to eat a lot more than I could allot, and with the cost of it, I decided to forego it completely. I'm not often had such strong cravings for food since I've started WW, but that one was as strong as anything could be. I'm feeling it again now to an extent, just thinking about it. I would love to have some cheese and Vienna Sausages on Ritz crackers right now, like I would have back home in the middle of the night for a snack. Even tho cravings are not neessarily happy things, I'm still sitting here smiling a little remembering doing that. Anyhoo, time for me to get sorted; I'm showered and well worked, but I still need to eat. I feel good and strong, I put some extra into it just because I felt motivated and good about what I was doing. I love having my mojo on, I hope the hormones don't get me this month like they did last month, I hate losing it! I also had some extra motivation from weighing this morning and seeing the scale way down from my official WI from Friday. I am interested to see whether it sticks for this week, if it does I will be happy.

Earned 11 APs today: 30 min walk aerobics (2-mile), 20 min core, 15 min lower body, 50 min shoulders, 35 min biceps/triceps, 15 min chest

Weekly summary:
Earned 32 APs
8.1 hours (485 min) total activity
4.5 miles (7.2 kms) walked
28 FPs remaining
3.0 lbs gained
Current weight: 209.2