Still Trying

I’m not going to turn this into a diet/exercise blog but I’ll still come here and update my progress every once and a while. I have continued the trips to the gym and I made a compromise on the times I go. I found a class I like – chair yoga (senior yoga.) Do I

sound old or what? But I do like it and yoga was one of the things my doctor recommended. I attended the first class and enjoyed feeling stretched out, but nothing was particularly hard. Then I got up the next morning and everything was sore. I think it was doing more than I’d realized.

When to go to the gym was an annoyance. The yoga class is at 8:30 so I can get there without having to get up at the crack of dawn and it still gets me home in time to feel like I have my morning to write. That’s two days a week and then I go in the afternoons three days a week to work out with the elliptical machine and some moderate weights.

I’ve had minor glitches in my WW program. I missed the weigh in last week while puppy sitting.  This was my choice, Mollie said she’d be fine. But I didn’t like to think of that tiny puppy in a crate all day so Mollie’s home until 7 am, I would go about 11 and let her play for about an hour and then Mollie’s back home around 3:30. I’m only doing this one more week then school’s out for the summer. But I still made it to the gym each day.

The real WW issues came up with the southern answer to the death of a loved one. Food. We were able to have my uncle’s

funeral this past weekend. We had family in from all over the country – I told you we are a close family. Several cousins came all the way from the west coast. We gathered one evening at my Aunts condo – a home where four or five could visit comfortably, but there were twenty-three of us there that evening and there was enough food to have fed each person there for several days.

I’m sure I ate too much, but I was aware of each thing I chose and later recorded it on my WW app. Let’s just say I did way better than I would have in the past with wiser choices and knowing when to stop. I’ll be weighing in later today and while I don’t think I made my ten pound goal before I head off on my vacation I’m still proud of myself for continuing to try. If I keep working maybe some of the cousins I saw will be able to notice a difference when the reunion comes around in August.

On another note, I was asked to join the June Instagram challenge. I can’t tell you how much I don’t know about Instagram or how it works, but I said yes anyway and Mollie has helped me. The goal is to post at least 15 time in June. If you are on Instagram, please come by!

@pk.corey