Week 8 Start again

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, I know.  I am battling depression, a familiar companion.  I'm still not smoking.  My new thing for this week is that I joined a team in a weight loss competition that runs from May 1 through August 1.  I did my weigh in last night for my start weight.  You ever feel like life is just trying to screw with you??  Yeah... I lost 70 pounds back in 2005/2006.  As of my weigh in last night, I've gained it all back... plus 2!  Way to help with the depression! lol  Oh well, I may as well laugh.  Crying doesn't help(besides, I did that last night.)  So for this week, I want to get my plan organized and in place for how I'm gonna kick butt in this competition!  Onward and upward!

Week 7

FAIL.  Nuff said? lol  Good news, I'm still not smoking cigarettes.  Everything else... yeah.

Week 6

This week went fine.  I added water daily.  It caused a few extra trips to the ladies room here and there and after the morning headaches subsided, I do think I feel better for it.  Anyway, my skin seems clearer!  Big news is, Keith was up for three days this weekend and, as you know, Keith smokes.  Now, he would have been more than willing to not smoke around me but I wanted to know if I could handle it.  I handled it fine!  There was a wistful feeling here and there but overall, I did not WANT a cigarette.  I will admit that over the weekend, I kind of sucked at my other new habits but as I've said before, the only vital thing right now is avoid the run to the store for the purchase of a pack of Marlboro 100's.  lol  I'm still a bit down in the dumps overall but I hope that side affect of quitting will pass soon.

Okay... next week.  I think my thing to feel better will involve movement.  Once again, I don't want to push myself too much until I'm well and truly over the cigarettes but movement shouldn't be toooo much of an issue. lol  For this week, I will move for at least 20 minutes on three occasions.  Onward and upward!

Week 5

Week five was pretty low key.  I was successful.  The highlight was finding out that my favorite coffee creamer is HFCS free!  woot!  Am I going to keep this change?  Yes, it's fairly easy and healthy for all of us. 

I'm still missing my cigarettes, I think.  I'm sort of  just... down a bit.  It's like I gave up a fun thing and haven't found another fun thing to replace it with. lol  So, I'm going to stay low key for week six, I think.

Week six will be, add water.  I normally drink two big jugs of diet coke at work during the day.  I will be replacing one of them with water.  The goal is to eventually give up the diet coke but that's a BIG change for a week when I have big courage. lol  Onward and upward!