"SNORT"

Seriously, that was the sound I made when I got on the scale this morning.  I could not believe what I saw.  NO GAIN!  No loss either, but no gain.  I was incredulous.  Mainly because since Thursday I've had access to many more dozen of my mom's cookies.  Like me, she was having a hard time staying out of them.  Actually a harder time because she's by herself.  I can at least spread the love.  My mom's cookies are one of the things I can't have in the house.  So DH is taking the rest (Which are in the freezer) to work with him tomorrow.  So all of you co-workers of my hubby be forewarned.

I think what helped me this week up until the cookies, was the fact that I was on track every day up until Thursday.  What's been a help and a hindrance this week is the fact that I was re-painting/ repairing my youngest sons former room, moving my other son into it, and beginning the process of repainting his room.  I need to get that done before the handyman comes to repair the floor in his room.  Hence the reason he had to move rooms.  Once the room is finished, I'll move him back to his old room and my other sons former room will become my new sewing room.  I do all this while everyone is at work.  So anyway, this activity has helped in that I'm moving all day, but hurt in the fact that I'm grabbing stuff for meals instead of stopping to sit down to eat.  Note to self, stop to eat please.

I can tell you this.  While I am extremely grateful that I didn't gain, I have to say I'm kinda bored with dancing around in the 160's.  It's time to make that middle number drop to a 5 at least.  It's gonna take me a while.  I was messing around on the spark people page adjusting my calories and such.  It didn't matter weather I put I wanted to lose 1 lb a week or 2.  The calories stayed the same 1200-1550.  Apparently  you can't go below that.  That means I need to either up a workout, or accept a s-l-o-w weight loss.  I'll opt for the slower loss.  I don't want to do anything to jeopardize my journey.  If I switch to longer or higher intensity workouts (which I hate), I'll stop doing them and regress.  Don't get me wrong, I'll still be doing a treadmill, step tape, and strength training, but it will be 45 minutes, and will still be mixed with other things like yard work, house cleaning, bike riding, etc.  In other words; status quo.  I'll increase what I need to in order to make it challenging, but that's about it.  I don't care if it takes me another 2  years to lose these last 20 lbs.  At least it will stay off.  The less disruption this journey makes in my life, the easier it will be for me to continue it long term.

So there it is.  No great epiphanies, but ya know..something.  Hope everyone's having a great day!