yesterday - still semi success, lol.  i did not exercise as the air mattresses were in the livingroom.  but i ate well!  it was one of those don't need to turn the oven on because it's hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk kind of days, and we have no air conditioning in the car.  ran a few errands and then went to burger king - i was going to get a whopper jr with no mayo.  got everyone else's order and forgot my own, so i had a piece of bread and peanut butter and a huge bowl of strawberries instead.

thought a few times about treats, but it felt good at the end of the day to add up numbers and see where i ended up :)  that kept me from wandering out to the kitchen for licorice or ice cream.

today we are off to relay for life in rainier.  not going to stay all night, but have to plan my day well.  i think i will stop and get a packet of tuna and an apple, and pack along some crackers for a lunch.  i am not spending the night, and i have some salad here at the house.  perhaps i will pick up some extra lean hamburger and just grill a burger pattie for dinner.  taking bottles of my own iced tea (not 10 spoonfulls of sugar per cup like starbucks does!!!!!).

i can manage this day :)

i am counting the first two days of this weight loss plan a semi-success.  semi because the first day, i did get up and do the three mile walk away the pounds workout, but didn't argue a bit about going out to lunch with a coworker, and my evening dedication to low calorie eating was to have the small blizzard when my partner suggested dairy queen.  yesterday, i did extremely well with my food plan, but only made it through the warm up and the first 3-4 minutes of the walking tape.  dang - 3 miles the day before really killed me!  but i did pull out a 30 minute flexibility stretching video and did that.  nothing says dang, woman, you've gotten fat like finding out how much your stomach gets in the way of a few simple stretching exercises.

onward.  last night was a scorcher, so we put an air mattress in the livingroom.  slept great - but now there is no place to exercise.  it's going to be horribly hot today, and i have to go to work late (taking said partner to have a tooth pulled this morning) so i'll likely skip lunch.  maybe we can go to the pool for a bit tonight - that would at least be something.

have to remember that this 57 year old body is not going to lose weight the way it did 10 years ago.  i am fast discovering that if i don't do something now, i'm not going to be able to keep up.  when my daughter and grandson were here to visit, what worried me the most about any of our plans was how long do i have to be on my feet at any one location - my feet and back start to hurt.  that needs to change.

this will be part self coaching, part idea storage, part diet and exercise journal.  maybe imagining thousands of readers will keep me accountable ;)