When life gets in the way

I'm going to be honest, I have had one heck of a couple weeks.  Joe and I both got in car wrecks.  His was a bit complicated as far as insurance was concerned.  Mine was pretty cut and dry.  I hit the lady in front of me and my car insurance paid for it all.  It sucks but it happened.  This added to an already stressful time in our house as Joe has been stretched to his limits with work.  That being said, meals and food have been an afterthought.  I haven't tracked my food in at least 2 weeks.  I've forgotten to wear my activity monitor so I've lost all of that data.  

The upside of all of this is, that I am still thinking about what I eat and how it would work with Weight Watchers. Now, I'm not saying I've been perfect, but I have been maintaining the weight that I have lost, and that is all I could ask of myself these last couple weeks.  I did not go to a meeting last week and I'm sorry about that, but at the same time, I am ok with it.  I recognized that I needed to be home with my family and we needed to have that normalcy for that night.  I thought about going another night, but I didn't. 

 Luckily, last week's theme was not how to stay on plan during the weekends and holidays.  That is this week's message and I will be right there front and center, because weekends are by far my hardest time.  Not only am I home or even out and about, but I have 2 other people's needs I need to take into account and I feel bad if I make them eat on plan.  Sounds silly for many reasons.  Why wouldn't I want my family to eat healthy?  Why don't I feel that I am important enough to make my needs a priority?  I can't wait until Tuesday to hear how others make it through the weekends!

Let's see, I'm proud that I am 10lbs down, but realistic that I am looking to still lose another 60.  I saw a scrapbooking friend on the wall at Weight Watchers and she lost 70lbs.  She is a motivator to me.  I can't wait to hear her story next week at our crop! I can use all the tips I can get.  One thing I know I need to work on is my exercising.  I would like to keep working on walking after I get off work.  I just have to keep myself from sitting down.  I keep sitting down and then not getting back up.  Not acceptable!  I have made an effort to make sure that Lucas gets to do something more than just hang out at home after school, but I need to make myself a priority.  I am important.  I AM important! 

On another note at home, I am working to clear out the clutter and to make a daily cleaning list that I can keep up with.  Joe and I both agree that our stress levels would decrease if we could just keep things clean.  Well this is more of a Joe thing, but I do agree.  I am ok living messy, but when everything is clean I do feel proud and as if I'm allowed to relax.  Not to say that when the house is messy I don't sit on my butt, but I think about all of the things that I should be doing instead of actually just relaxing.  I get real proud of myself and even motivated to work harder once I just DO.  If I sit all I want to do is sit.  

Ok, It's clear I don't know how to make post that is very focused.  My goal this week is to walk after work, AND (that's right, 2 goals) to post every day this week.  I am going to immerse myself in my weight loss journey so I can get my focus back and kick some weight loss ASS!  

Losing it,

Lisa