Shipwrecked & Comatose

I'm going to post this photo of a cute little fluffy bunny because I seem to have very little control over what images end up on Facebook when I post my blog links there.  Sometimes I can choose and sometimes it just automatically puts the first image on the blog in the news feed.  I don't need my progress photo to be seen by everyone I know on Facebook, so I'll make sure the first image is not of me. Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk progress. I'm not happy with how far I have come in the past six months.   I have put in a good effort, but it hasn't been good enough.  I am faithfully doing my workouts and reading my lessons every day, but I slack off way too often on my food habits.  This has meant that my weight and my measurements have stagnated.  This week's lessons were supposed to inspire me, but instead they sort of depressed me.  They were about how compliance guarantees success and how we should be looking at how far we have

I didn't lose anything this week. I will not hit my June goal. It's my own fault.  For the past 3 days I completely skimped on this week's habit. This week's habit is to eat whole foods only.  (That's whole foods, and not Whole Paycheck.)  In other words stick to fresh foods, foods without labels, foods that don't come pre-packaged unless absolutely necessary.  I strive to eat that way normally, so even though this is considered a "stretch goal," it's not new to me.  I have always believed if it comes in a bag, box, or can, we should avoid eating it.  There are always gray areas when it comes to whole foods though.  Canned beans, canned tomatoes, dairy, and intact grains are often considered acceptable in a whole food diet.  This week I did include some of these foods such as dairy and steel-cut oatmeal (never rolled or instant). We will try not to talk about the bread and cake at Malcolm and Penelope's graduation party, or the snacking on

I hate pullups. Lesson learned: Don't let the first 10 minutes of your ride get you down for an entire lesson.  Sometimes your horse needs a few minutes to get into the zone.  You can turn that ride around. Reason #36 to keep Facebooking to a minimum:  Those ad-based posts.  Some of those ads are for the dumbest, spammiest products ever.  What's worse is that people comment on them.  Why would you want to be involved in a comment thread on an ad? Autocorrect is so funny.  I tried to write "spammiest" and it kept trying to rewrite it as "spam modest."  Modest spam always wears a can. Am I the only person who loses herself in LinkedIn?  I look someone up for a purpose and then find myself interested in that person's contacts and then I see who those people's contacts are... Truly we have reached the state of six degrees of separation.  I am amazed at how people I know are connected to each other in ways I never would have guessed. Two commerc

This is the official halfway mark of the program.  So far I am down 10.2 pounds, 10 inches, and 4% body fat.  I didn't lose a full two pounds this week, although I think I put in a good effort.  I barely lost any girth either. I am looking at the end of the month.  That is my personal unofficial halfway point.  I am looking at this journey as the course of a whole year and not just the weeks of the program.  That's why I am still looking at the second half of June as a chance to lose 4 more pounds and be halfway to my goal weight.  Also, at the end of the month I will be finished with the current workout phase, have another series of photos, and I believe another bodyfat measurement. Then I considered two very important points. The first is I'm becoming too obsessed with the scale.  LE has four methods of measuring progress.  The scale is one of them.  The girth measurements are another.  The bodyfat measurements are yet another.  Then we round it all out with photos

I am very pleased to have lost three of the five pounds I gained.  I suppose much of that weight was water weight.  I am now down about 10 inches as well. I had sword I would follow every habit to the letter this week.  I didn't exactly do that, but I followed them enough it seems.  My progress might be slow, but it's happening. I'm not sure if anyone who is following this blog read my post for Week 20.  It's here on the blog, but if you use Facebook to follow my posts, you probably missed it because I never got around to posting it on Facebook.  If you are that desperate to read it, just scroll past the long-winded "What I did in San Francisco" post. I am almost 6 months into the program.  I'll be hitting the halfway mark.  At the end of the six-week workout cycle I'll have to take photos again.  What will I see?  What do I hope to see?  Where do I go from here? I wanted to be halfway to my goal weight by the time the year was half over.  That w

Day 1+ - The night before we left didn't give us any good omens. There was a bad storm that partially knocked out our power. We knew that the battery backup for our FiOs was dead, but we thought we had disabled the low battery alarm. When the power went out, we could not stop the low battery alarm from beeping. We would stop it for a little while and as soon as we were asleep for a while, it would go off and beep incessantly again. We finally called Verizon and begged for help. Somehow they managed to tell us how to remove the battery. It was not the best night's sleep. The worst seemed to be over in the morning. We made it to the airport in good time and there were no issues with our flight. We flew Virgin America for the first time. I had hoped Virgin America would be a domestic version of Virgin Atlantic. Sadly it's not. On Virgin Atlantic the food, booze, and entertainment are free in coach. Not so with Virgin America. Only non-alcoholic beverages and a