Well, here we are in the year 2023 already!! Where does the time go? It's been awhile since my last post and though I have a gazillion other things that I should be doing right now, I feel inclined to blog. I have somehow managed to go on a two week vacation, return in time for Thanksgiving and birthday festivities, live LARGE the entire month of December with Social Functions, throw a Christmas party for 30 people, bake countless dozens of cookies (& eat more than I care to share), host family for Christmas Day and enjoy family visiting for a week after. LOTS of eating and LOTS of drinking. Though I've seen the scale creep in the wrong direction--key word here is creep!
When I left on vacation, I had just hit the 20 pound loss mark and I had close to 100 consecutive days of 10k steps or more. After Thanksgiving, the weigh loss was at 19 pounds and today in 2023, I'm at 18 pounds--but I had a blast the last almost 2 months, so I'm calling this a win! My 10k a day steps got derailed in December and I've had a hard time getting motivated to resume that goal, in part due to Reno weather and a few snow storms. I'm terrified of slipping on ice, I feel as though this is the equivalent of tripping over uneven pavement, which I've done often in the Bay Area--we don't have uneven pavement in a new development--but in winter, we do have ice from time to time.
I know that I will get back on track and step one is attending my support group meeting this afternoon and I am sure that I will find that I'm not alone, we have all had our challenges the last several weeks/months.
Weight Watchers did toss me into a tailspin, as they always do at the end of the year, they make program changes and always have some fancy reason as to why- but when the changes impact one of your favorite 0 point foods and you lose 3 points per day, it plays with your mind. I've decided that my 0 point food is still going to be 0 points- it was working just fine before, and losing the 3 points per day would not be as big a deal if I was MOVING more and getting my 10k steps per day, I can earn a lot of activity points, so it's just a matter of making it happen and I will.
We had a great two months of vacation and holidays. It was so special to have my family here for Christmas in our new home and I think everyone had a great time. Our home is now almost complete on the inside, I guess for all intents and purposes it is done on the inside- we finally have our pendant lights, chandelier, fans in the office and bedroom and all switches changed over to Lutron--thanks to my brother and nephew who worked hard on these tasks the day after Christmas. I no longer need to hit 3 different switches in different locations to turn the lights off at night- I can simply click "all off" in the app. YAY! Though I guess those are now lost steps! LOL
We had a HUGE snow storm on New Years Eve, enough that ended up canceling our party at the Clubhouse but that was just fine, we walked through a foot of snow to our neighbor's house across the street for a party with the best neighbors...and I started 2023 with my 1st ever snow angel...those are harder than they look! It was magical though watching the snow fall all day long on 12/31 and we took down the Christmas trees and decorations inside while enjoying the snowfall. It'll probably be a month before we can take in the outside lights as they are buried under a foot of snow and frozen cords!
January is usually a let down type of month, but I am looking forward to at least one and maybe two more trips to the Bay Area for 49er games and playoffs. When your team plays in January it adds a little more excitement to the otherwise blah month.
I'm hopeful for a great year of business, everyone seems to want to go to Europe this year and I am working on several European trips. Though I am busy, my goal for 2023 overall is to maintain a reasonable work/life balance--putting myself first so that I can become healthier and skinnier (I hate that word) but I would like to be down 40 pounds by the time we go to Europe in August and that will be me well into ONEderland. That's only 5 pounds per month, I may actually be able to be down 50 pounds but I think 40 is a reasonable goal.
I'm still very undecided if I want to return to teaching classes at the gym. I do miss my Les Mills BodyPump, BodyCombat and BodyFlow and have considered joining a local gym to go take classes. My primary certification and CPR expire in March, so I need to make decisions very soon about this to either renew these or let them go. Decisions, decisions!
Ok- back to work!!
