January 2011....I had recovered from Christmas 2010....which was kind of hard for me with Alyssa being away for the first time during the holidays. I know it was very difficult for her.
I then committed to running a minimum of 1km/day, every day for the whole year without missing a day. I had such a great time New Years Eve, that my first run was really tough....but I pulled off 3km with quite a hangover.
January is always a good month as it is a cruise month for us. But before that, G had decided that we would fly down to FLL, rent a car and drive to Key West. Well, you certainly can't pick the weather....it was cold! but nevertheless we really enjoyed ourselves. We had to go and buy something a bit warmer to wear. The one and only time I have ever seen G in hoody....and it was only five bucks!
We drove back to FLL & flew home. I had only 4 days to get ready, do the usual packing, and then off for a week on the Crown Princess. We had a great time and made some wonderful new friends and of course I ate and drank way too much.
Upon return I then realized that it was time to make some changes. When I hopped on the scales....I had hit 130lb. YEA YEA...I know. But c'mon, but for someone who weighed under 100lb until the age of 35.....OMG!!!! That was my breaking point! Sooooo.....since my legs and arms had not taken on any of this weight, it was all in my mid section! ugh.
First thing, I knew I had to stop drinking White Zinfandel. Oh how I loved it. I immediately switched to red wine. To go from drinking a fairly sweet wine to red is not easy.....but I did it!! I also started using a program on my IPad and started counting my daily intake of calories......
So for the month of February....that's what I did. And I made myself stay off the scales for the whole month.
I put myself on 1170 calories a day. That's pretty hard to do! Especially when you start adding glasses of wine in there. I quickly learned how much I had to save for the end of the day. Yea, I know.....not the greatest way to try and lose weight, but by the end of the month I had lost 5lb! :) and I was happy with that.
I was also thrilled that I still continued to run every day. It really is a huge commitment!!!!
March was another sort of tough month for me. My daughter Alyssa had been hired on full time with Princess and we were preparing for her to leave for her first full time contract. Should be easy considering her pt was in Alaska and the Caribbean. But no....she was preparing to fly to Thailand to join the Diamond Princess for 6 months. It was hard to handle the thought that my daughter was about to fly almost half way around the world. There were alot of tears but we sent her on her way....over 24 hours with little sleep for me and of course she made it safely to Bangkok. I remember sitting here at 4am waiting and waiting until she came online. Tears just poured down my face when I saw her come on. All was good once I know she was ok. I don't know what I would have done without the internet and facebook to stay in touch.
So through all of this I was somewhat managing to keep myself on the 1170 calories a day. It was hard, but by the end of the month I hopped on the scales and WOW I had lost another 5lb. Down to 120
to be continued..................
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