Here’s My Plan

I’ve looked, for two weeks, for a group to join on Facebook to diet and exercise with like-minded women for the next  few weeks.  I found several, but only one that didn’t cost $100.00 to join.  (Gee, how helpful…  NOT!)

I thought about creating my own group but I’m not a leader.  I much prefer following in things like this.

I wanted an accountability group, somewhere I could discuss goals and check-in everyday. Another catch with some of these groups were that they wanted daily weigh-ins and I don’t want to weigh until I’ve been doing great for 2 weeks.  (I’m a little neurotic about my weight.  My husband would laugh that I said “a little”.)

So here’s my plan:  I’m going to eat 1200 a day for 6 weeks, starting November 1st.  I’m going to do my treadmill 3 times a week, starting at 20 minutes and working up to 40.  I’m not eating refined sugar.

I may have mentioned before that 2016 turned out to be my year to eat!  It’s been so much fun not worrying about it, not counting, baking and cooking all the comfort dinners that I love.  It has taken a toll on my weight, but WHATEVER!  This is life.  Now it’s time to get it under control, to be kind to my body by eating better, get a few pounds off so that I don’t feel guilty about baking at Christmas.  (I’m very much looking forward to another Bake-Off, doing gingerbread at Christmas time!)

Maybe this plan is the beginning of a healthier life!  (I can hope, shut up!)  I know that if you eat healthy 90% of the time, you can get away with eating birthday cake and sweet potato pie at Thanksgiving and Christmas cookies.  I KNOW THAT!  Maybe my current plan is the start of living that way!  Could be, you never know!

So it all starts tomorrow.  My Mom has already joined me.  If you’d like to play along, you’re more than welcome.  We could check in with each other, weigh or not, discuss meals we’ve eaten  or meal plans.  Tell what we did for exercise or how many steps we got in today.  Or, just, “I managed to drink my water today.”  There’ll be no judgement.  We have it in ourselves to do this or not.  It’s a choice and it’s an individual choice.  If you choose to eat, more power to you.  I chose to eat all this year!

If you’d like to play along, just let me know and we’ll talk about it.  If you’d like to play along with the gingerbread Bake-Off in December, let me know that too.  The more the merrier.  

Mid October Already?

I get so tired of hearing people talk about how they can’t believe it’s October already.  BUT IT’S TRUE!  How the Hell?  When did that happen?

Life continues moving along at a pretty good clip, except for the mountain house construction.  (more on that later)

I think my current Project Life spread will catch you up pretty nicely!  (I used mostly Brandi Kincaid’s Gather the Good mini kit.  It can be found here:  http://kellypurkeyshop.com/products/gather-the-good-mini-kit-by-brandi-kincaid and a few Ali Edwards Story Kit things too.  You can find out more about Ali’s Story Kits here:  http://aliedwards.com/how-it-works .

The weather is finally cooling off and the boys and I are enjoying walks outdoors instead of doing the treadmills.  Boo is loving the back door being constantly open and being able to come and go as she pleases.

Homeschool is moving along fabulously right now.  The boys are really stepping up with their first online class and we’re still working on more independent learning in Science.

The mums are in full bloom and the veggies and herbs are all past now.  Trees are still changing.  We need to do some toasty, wine drinking around the fire pit soon!

I went on a girls’ shopping day in Fort Collins last Saturday with friends, Katherine and Anja and had so much fun!  I was very thankful that Anja was doing a photography project and wanted to take pictures of fall leaves.  I took them to Roland Moore Park.  (the park I visited last year that stole my heart with all the fall colors!)  It was so much fun, relaxing and playful.  By far, the park was my favorite part of the day!

I got the fall baking bug some time ago but had been holding out.  Last week, however,  I caved and baked a spice cake with cream cheese frosting.  It was so yummy!  It’s been a week and now I’m ready to bake something again…  but I won’t…  probably.  We’ll see.

I just realized that my friend, Jackie, makes two appearances in my Project Life this week!  On the first page, there’s a picture of her birthday box and on the last page I documented having gotten my December Daily shipment and waiting to open it with her.  We video-chatted and opened our shipments together.  It was great fun.  I’m so thankful for our friendship.  We have so much fun sharing!  I included her take on our Christmas video chat and mine!

As for the new mountain house…  building is going very slowly but we’re currently being blessed with lots of warmer-than-normal weather.  This was the view yesterday:

We were promised a team of 4 guys would be working on it this week.  We’ve seen 3.  And there was no one there today.  Not sure what happened.  We’ll just be so happy when the skilled workers are done with their parts and they turn it over to us!!!  We’re far enough along now that we can really SEE it and we’re dying to get our hands on it!

So you’re all caught up.  Feels good, huh?  I’m off to play while the husband has dinner with Google tonight!  Ta!